Lindsay Marie, the girlfriend of the 35-year-old Ohio bull rider who died on October 24, posted a deeply personal tribute that has circulated widely among friends and the local rodeo community. In the message she wrote, “I’m still waiting on my good morning text Blake Saylor! The time in my life when I had given up on love, you showed up and stole my heart! One of the things I loved most about you was your love for God. You were never ashamed to talk about God to anyone! Being beside you, watching you grow closer to Him was such a blessing in my life!

Knowing you’ve always said that when it’s your time to go you hope it’s doing what you love the most, riding bulls! I just wish I could hold you one last time and tell you how much I love you.” The words capture both the ordinary intimacy of daily texts and the profound recognition that Saylor had often spoken about wanting his final moments to come while he was on a bull. Sources identify her variously as Lindsay or Linsey Marie; either way, her post stands as the most intimate public account of the man behind the helmet and vest. She described a relationship that arrived after she had stopped expecting love, and she repeatedly returned to his open faith as the quality she valued most.

Friends who knew the couple have echoed that he spoke freely about God in everyday conversation, not only inside the arena. The tribute has been shared alongside the official statements from Fox Hollow Rodeo and Clearcreek Township police, giving readers a human scale that the incident reports alone cannot supply. Saylor’s death occurred after a traumatic chest injury sustained in the bullpen at the Clearcreek Township venue; he was wearing chest protection at the time. Lindsay’s message does not dwell on the mechanics of the accident; instead it dwells on the person she is still addressing as if he might reply.

That choice has resonated with others in the community who have lost riders in past years and who recognize the particular grief of unfinished ordinary conversations. No official family statement has been released beyond the rodeo’s call for privacy, so her words remain the primary personal voice available to the public in the days immediately following the loss. The post continues to be referenced in local coverage as evidence of both the relationship and the faith that defined Saylor’s life outside the arena.