Kaycee Feild scored an 80 in bareback competition Wednesday night at EnergySolutions Arena, putting himself in position to continue the best streak of his two-year professional career with another substantial payday.

"Not quite what I wanted," Feild said. "But hopefully, I can pull a check out of here."

Feild, the 21-year-old son of former world champion Lewis Feild, has been pulling plenty of checks lately.

He comes off a win at the Greeley (Colo.) Independence Day Stampede and a second-place finish at Prescott, Ariz. Those efforts moved Feild into 10th place in the PRCA bareback standings.

Like father, like son.

"I just grew up around [rodeo]," Feild said. "I've always wanted to do it - as long as I can remember."

Asked about the pressure of following his famous father into the rodeo arena, Feild said, "No, there's none at all. He's my hero. I'm just doing everything I can to do well and fill his boots."

Said Lewis Feild, the coach at Utah Valley University who watched his son win the national collegiate bareback title in June, "He rides real well. He is a very consistent rider."

Under the watchful eye of his father, Kaycee Feild started riding bucking horses when he was "15 of 16."

"We just started practicing," Lewis Feild said. "First on a dummy. Then on a horse that didn't buck at all. Then on a horse that bucked a little. . . . We controlled the ability of the horse so he could learn. As he learned and got better, he got on better horses."

Like most cowboys, Kaycee Feild has learned to deal with injuries, like the kind he suffered two years ago during a amateur rodeo in Idaho Falls.

"I got bucked off," he said matter-of-factly, "and ended up with eight broken ribs, a punctured lung and a lacerated kidney."

Slowed briefly but not stopped, Kaycee Feild returned from the injury and had a "craving" to become one of the best cowboys in a world already conquered by his famous father.

"All he has ever told me," Kaycee Feild said, "is to have fun and enjoy what I'm doing."

Why not?

"The lifestyle is a blast," Lewis Feild said. "It's a lot of work, a lot of miles, a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of injuries. But to be able to travel around the country as a young man and make a living at something you really enjoy doing, that's a neat thing."

luhm@sltrib.com

BAREBACK RIDING

1. Chris Harris (Itasca, Texas), 83; 2. Kaycee Feild (Elk Ridge, Utah), 80; 3. Tilden Hooper (Carthage, Texas), 78.

STEER WRESTLING

1. Stockton Graves (Newkirk, Okla.), 4.2 seconds; 2. Dean Gorsuch (Gering, Neb.), 4.4 seconds.

TIE-DOWN ROPING

1. Mike Johnson (Henrietta, Okla.), 9.6 seconds; 2. Kyle Kosoff (West Haven, Utah), 9.8 seconds.

SADDLE BRONC RIDING

1. (Tie) Jesse Bail (Camp Crook, S.D.) and Isaac Diaz (Stephenville, Texas), 80; 3. Cody DeMoss (Heflin, La.), 71.

BARREL RACING

1. Maegan Reichert (Mt. Pleasant, Texas), 13.62 seconds; 2. Stephanie Harris (Itasca, Texas), 14.03 seconds; 3. Courtney Dobson (Hamer, Idaho), 14.06 seconds.

TEAM ROPING

1. Ty Blasingame (Olney Springs, Colo.) and Cody Hintz (Spring Creek, Nevada), 4.3 seconds; 2. Raymond Plant (Holbrook, Ariz.) and Clay Reidhead (Showlow, Ariz.), 8.3 seconds.

BULL RIDING

1. (Tie) Jesse Bail (Camp Crook, S.D.) and Wyatt Welsh (Gillette, Wyo.), 78; 3. Shawn Hogg (Odessa, Texas), 77.