Merritt professional bull rider Ty Pozzobon is on a tear.

The 25-year-old Pozzobon has moved to the top of the leaderboard in the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Canada rankings, thanks to a fabulous run of results in the first half of the month of July.

Back on Canada Day, at a PBR bull-a-rama in Edgerton, Alta., Pozzobon put up scores of 85.5 and 87.5 to win the first two rounds of competition.

Pozzobon also finished  in second place in the aggregate, just behind his good friend and two-time Ty Pozzobon Invitational winner, Chase Outlaw.

Pozzobon’s holiday winnings totaled $4,386.

Less than one week later, at the three-day Ranchman’s Child Charity PBR event in Calgary, Pozzobon picked up two first-place finishes, a second and two thirds en route to a payday of over $8,000.

This past Friday, competing at the inaugural Night at the Ranch PBR in Innisfail, Alta., Pozzobon continued his torrid run of top-three finishes with a two-three split in round one, a first-place finish in round two (with a season-high score of 88 on Blood Money) and the aggregate title — good for a cheque totaling $3,254.

More importantly, Pozzobon’s string of strong performances has elevated him to first-place in the PBR Canada standings with 1,337.5 points, 194.2 points better than Australia’s Josh Birks in second.

Pozzobon’s run of success is all the more impressive considering he is coming back from a career-threatening injury last September that saw the courageous cowboy out of action for over six months, and competing this year with two braces on his reconstructed right leg.

On the down side, Pozzobon experienced some misfortune this past weekend in Calgary when his rigging bag, with contents valued at over $7,000, was stolen from his parents’ locked truck in a smash-and-grab on Saturday night.

The incident has received considerable local attention, with Pozzobon being interviewed on CTV Calgary and city police vowing to do everything possible to recover the gear.

Pozzobon is back in action this weekend at an ERA rodeo in Salt Lake City, Utah.