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RodeoHouston champion rides in honor of late father

Four-time World Champion Kaycee Feild learned the sport of bareback riding from one of the world's best: his own father.

Inside NRG Stadium, a familiar face at RodeoHouston has his eyes on another title on a bucking horse.

"You're going up against a big animal, you have no control, you've got to bear down," said cowboy Kaycee Feild.

Four-time World Champion Feild learned the sport of bareback riding from one of the world's best: his own father.

"When I turned 14, we started practicing everyday," Feild said.

Lewis Feild was a five-time World Champion and made his own memories at RodeoHouston competing inside the Astrodome for years, capturing the bareback riding title in 1982.

"To come down here and talk to my dad on the phone about what's going on and compare stories from the 80s to now, that's pretty cool," Feild said.

His father's words and lessons is what he carries with him today. Feild lost his dad two years ago to cancer. Every rodeo and every ride a chance to make him proud.

"He's with me all the time," Feild said. "He's with my every time I'm on a horse."

But RodeoHouston will always have a special spot. It's where in 2016 he captures his first title since his father's death just a month earlier.

"He was watching every move," Feild said.

And now in 2018, the four-time RodeoHouston bareback champion wants to keep making Dad proud.

"He would be very happy with me and tell me good job, short and sweet," Feild said. "The expression on his face would tell me how proud he is of me."

Feild rides again Friday night to try and earn a spot in the Barebacking Championship on Saturday.

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