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Contents AUGUST 2019 VOLUME 24, NUMBER 8

F E AT U R E S

40 Release and Respect

Carlos Renato’s training program focuses on respecting the individual horse’s needs. By Bridget Kirkwood

48 The Ultimate Frustration

Is my horse unsound or untrained? By Tanya Randall

CHAMPIONS’ CORNER

30 Charmayne James’ Tips 36 World Champion Reflections I N E V E RY I S S U E

4 Arena Record 9 Arena Dirt 110 Drill of the Month 115 Youth Forum 120 Barrel Racing Across the U.S. 121 Futurity Roundup 122 Event Calendar and Clinics ABIGAIL BOATWRIGHT

SPECIAL BARREL RACING PROSPECTS SECTION

58 Futurity Feed

Make sure your futurity horse is getting the right mix of nutrients for growth and performance.

By Abigail Boatwright

67 Prospect Showcase

Prospects bred to excel in the barrel racing arena brought to you by Barrel Horse News advertisers.

EVENT SPOTLIGHTS

70 NBHA Las Vegas Super Show 74 NBHA Great Lakes National Super Show 78 NBHA Syracuse Spectacular Super Show 82 All-American Youth 88 Bonus Race Finals 94 Copper Spring Ranch Futurity, Derby and Open 98 Colorado Classic Futurity NBHA NEWS

102 State News 106 Member Profile 124 State Shows, Directory

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On the Cover: Michael Duffie and Eyesa Topaz win All American Youth Championship. Photo by Kenneth Springer On the Fold-out Cover: Cheyenne Lindsey and LL Cat Man Do top NBHA Las Vegas Super Show. Photo by Dusty Saddles Photography BARREL HORSE NEWS | August 2019

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What does it mean to not waste your gift? To me, not wasting your gift means investing your time into positive, productive thoughts and actions on a daily basis, which is a choice from the moment you wake up in the morning until your head hits the pillow at night.

Every person has a unique gift, and all you have to do to see proof of it is flip to about any page of this issue and read the stories of great horses and their people taking full advantage of their giftedness.

Sticking with the theme of gifts and giftedness, locating the perfect prospect can open the door to new challenges, experiences and achievements. If you’re in the market for just the right prospect, our Special Barrel Racing Prospects Section is designed to provide ideas and insights that help you achieve your barrel racing goals. Who better to lend their perspectives on the subject of prospect selection than Charmayne James and Hailey Kinsel in their respective columns? Beyond prospect picks, we’ve got training topics featuring Carlos Renato and Janet Staton, and Tanya Randall’s article on unraveling the difference between a barrel horse being untrained or unsound in “The Ultimate Frustration.” We appreciate each of the experts who’ve been willing to share their knowledge with Barrel Horse News readers.

This issue is bursting at the seams with gifted and talented horses and riders from across the country representing every facet of the multi-

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The following producers have earned Equi-Stat’s Gold Buckle distinction by submitting results with greater than 80 percent of registered horse names (HRN) documented: Lucky Dog Productions, Lynda Ottun Memorial, National Barrel Horse Association, D’Arbonne Range Riders, Colorado Classic, D&D Productions, Yellow Rose Futurity, LanBar Barrel Racing, Hay & Stuff Barrel Races, SC Productions, Copper Spring Ranch, Go For Broke Productions, Good Times Barrel Racing Association, Florida NBHA, Virginia Barrel Classic and Runnin WJ. Those in need of Equi-Stat reports or information on submitting a show or barrel racing series may contact EquiStat via phone at 817-737-6397.

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It’s a pleasure to plan and compile our monthly event spotlights—the biggest challenge is simply managing to fit in so many great events across the nation. We hope you enjoy reading each champion’s story as much as we did writing them.

Until next time, stay safe and enjoy the ride!

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Ashtyn Carlson Wins College National Championship

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Ashtyn Carlson claimed the 2019 College National Championship aboard RGR Golden Oak, a 2007 gelding by Oak Tree Special and out of Hugo Gold by Hugo Streakin.

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THE 71ST ANNUAL COLLEGE NATIONAL FINALS RODEO CONCLUDED JUNE 15 IN CASPER, WYOMING, with individual, allaround and team champions crowned after the final round of competition at the Casper Events Center.

Ashtyn Carlson, a 19-year-old sophomore at the College of Southern Idaho, led the barrel racing when the finals began aboard her horse RGR Golden Oak. The Loma, Colorado, resident and “Stick” ran consistently in each of the three go-rounds, posting times of 14.39, 14.23 and 14.38, respectively.

All other events are run in a 12th- to first-place order, but competition positions are drawn in the barrel racing where running near the top of the ground can be an advantage. Carlson drew the undesirable last position for the short go and watched as several barrel racers clocked times fast enough to win previous rounds. New Mexico State’s Jayde Wamel turned in the week’s fastest time of 13.99 seconds to win the short round aboard Dosi, a 2010 gelding by Moon Shake and out of Specialy Double by Special Task. Carlson did not succumb to the pressure, instead making her fastest run of the week, 14.03 seconds, to secure the fastest average of 57.03 and her first college championship.

All college national champions also earned a bye into the $1 million Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games and Rodeo presented by Zions Bank in Salt Lake City from July 19–24.

Article provided in part by the College National Finals Rodeo, with contributions from Barrel Horse News. For more, visit cnfr.com or collegerodeo.com.

College National Finals Barrel Racing Results Name/School/Go 1, Go 2, Go 3, Short Go/ Average/ Total Points

1. Ashtyn Carlson/College of Southern Idaho/14.39, 14.23, 14.38, 14.03/57.03/340.0 points 2. Hailey Finnegan/Lassen Community College/14.41, 14.32, 14.33, 14.16/57.22/285.0 points 3. Rachael Calvo/University of Wyoming/14.38, 14.36, 14.56, 14.21/57.51/190.0 points 4. Maddy Dickens/Tarleton University/14.79, 14.31, 14.39, 14.20/57.69/185.0 points 5. Jayde Wamel/New Mexico State University/14.75, 14.53, 14.57, 13.99/57.84/100.0 points 6. Bristan Kennedy/Weatherford College/14.69, 14.44, 14.67, 14.12/57.92/75.0 points 7. Julia Starzinski/Cal Poly State University – San Luis Obispo/14.72, 14.36, 14.47, 14.55/58.10/70.0 points 8. Makayla Seely/Casper College/14.32, 14.75, 14.80, 14.25/58.12/95.0 points 9. Kelsey Lensegrav/University of Wyoming/14.71, 14.77, 14.45, 14.46/58.39/30.0 points 10. Taylor Rivera/University of Nevada – Las Vegas/14.71, 14.65, 14.62, 14.46/58.44 points

Barrel Horse News Allies with West Coast Barrel Racing Association

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BARREL HORSE NEWS AND THE WEST COAST BARREL RACING ASSOCIATION ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE AN ALLIANCE AGREEMENT FOR 2019. As the leading voice in the barrel racing industry, Barrel Horse News is looking forward to working with the WCBRA, one of the fastest-growing barrel racing associations in the West, to help promote the sport.

“Barrel Horse News is excited to partner with WCBRA to aid in the expansion and promotion of the sport we are both so passionate about,” said Patty Tiberg, Regional Vice President of Morris Magazines, LLC. “We look forward to expanding our coverage of the WCBRA on both our print and digital platforms.”

Ranked by Equi-Stat, the statistical division of Cowboy Publishing Group, as the 11th overall highest-paying barrel racing event of 2018, the WCBRA Finals take place Labor Day Weekend at the Salinas Valley Fairgrounds in King City, California. Barrel Horse News will participate in this and other select WCBRA events with special subscription offers and giveaways, as well as hosting the WCBRA Finals webcast on barrelhorsenews.com and sharing WCBRA news via the magazine’s print and social media channels. The WCBRA Finals boasts substantial added prize money of $171,000 in cash, making it among the most lucrative and exciting races in the country. The event awarded a total of $323,000 in cash payouts in 2018.

“WCBRA is proud to partner with an organization that has become such a credible and reliable publication and resource within the barrel racing industry,” WCBRA owner Bailey Nahrgang said. “We have so much respect for Barrel Horse News and are honored to expand on our relationship this year.”

For more information, visit westcoastbarrelracing.com. Follow Barrel Horse News on social media for coverage and updates from the WCBRA Finals.

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Michelle Darling and Morning Traffic Win WCRA Titletown Stampede BULLSTOCK MEDIA

THE WORLD CHAMPIONS RODEO ALLIANCE CLOSED OUT ITS SECOND $1 MILLION MAJOR OF 2019, offering $111,000 per discipline in Green Bay, Wisconsin, at the Titletown Stampede in front of a sold-out crowd June 1.

The final top-two round of barrel racing was a showdown between two Frenchmans Guy daughters. Sabra O’Quinn and Bring It On Guys (2009 mare, Frenchmans Guy x Full A Irish Whiskey x Paddys Irish Whiskey) were first out, but downed a barrel for a five-second Michelle Darling and penalty. Michelle Morning Traffic (2011 mare, Frenchmans Darling rode Guy x Evening Traffic Morning Traffic into x Dash Thru Traffic) the Resch Center topped the WCRA Titletown Stampede arena knowing on June 1 for $50,000. all she needed to do was keep the barrels up. The Medford, Oklahoma, barrel racer and “Martini” shattered the clock, running a performance-best 13.368 for a $50,000 paycheck. O’Quinn earned $25,000 for second place.

Sisters Shelby and Makayla Boisjoli made it a family affair in the final round of the breakaway roping, where Shelby beat older sister Makayla after posting a 2.88-second time compared to Makayla’s 8.77 seconds. The sisters took home $50,000 and $25,000 for first and second, respectively.

The payout format of the Titletown Stampede will carry forward to the next WCRA major rodeo. Since launching in May 2018, the WCRA and its partners have awarded more than $4.5 million in new money to rodeo athletes.

Article provided in part by the WCRA, with contributions from Barrel Horse News. For complete results from all events, visit wcrarodeo.com.

WCRA $1 Million Titletown Stampede Barrel Racing Results Green Bay, Wisconsin • June 1 • Barrel Racing Total Payout $111,111.01 Long Round (Rider, Hometown, Time, Payout) 1. Michelle Darling, Medford, Oklahoma, 13.465 2. Sabra O’Quinn, Ocala, Florida, 13.533 3. Amanda Harris, Spearfish, South Dakota, 13.68, $10,761.08 4. Chani Graves, Sulphur Springs, Texas, 13.687, $7,872.2 5. Ashlyn Goven, Rozet, Wyoming, 13.792, $6,716.65 6. Jennifer Driver, Garden City, Texas, 14.0, $4,983.32 7. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi, Lampasas, Texas, 14.436, $1,444.44 8. Cheyenne Wimberley, Stephenville, Texas, 13.531+5, $1,444.44 9. Taycie Matthews, Wynne, Arkansas, 13.67+5, $1,444.44 10. Ivy Conrado, Valley Mills, Texas, 14.486+5, $1,444.44 Finals 1. Michelle Darling, Medford, Oklahoma, 13.368, $50,000 2. Sabra O’Quinn, Ocala, Florida, 13.489 +5, $25,000

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CSR PERFORMANCE HORSE S ALE 2019 * Prospects offered at Copper Spring Ranch

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I AM FURIOUS 123 2017 Filly by Furyofthewind (sire of 2019 Ft Smith Futurity Champion, Mystery In The Winds) × Very Dashin 123 (earned $44,112 racing, 100% Winner/ ROM Producer). Future Fortunes, PESI, Pink Buckle enrolled.

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IMA COWBOY BABEE 2017 Gelding by Dash Ta Fame ($22.3 million barrel earners) × Cowgirl Cartel by Corona Cartel (si 97 $61 million progeny earnings). His moves are natural and balanced and his willingness has been noticed by us all. PIF WPRA-PESI. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

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CANYON FULL OF CASH 2017 Gelding by Firewater

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SHAKE UR GROOVETHANG 2017 Filly by Prime Talent (sire of 2018 RAM NCFR Champion) × French Gold Charm (Futurity Money Earner; $15,000 LTE). She is beautiful, has controllable speed and great work ethic. Future Fortunes, PESI and Pink Buckle enrolled. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

RECKLESSWTHFIREWATER 2018 filly by Firewater Canyon I OF THE HURRICANE 2017 Gelding by Furyofthewind × JK Reckless Lady (Barrel Earnings $184,864, 2018 Montana Pro Rodeo Finals qualifier). Mare power times two! FWC’s dam Mulberry Canyon Moon and “Lady.” Future Fortunes, PESI, Pink Buckle enrolled. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

(race progeny earnings $6,957,127) out of Shez Easy Onthe Eyes—2010 & 2011 World Show Qualifier, won AQHBA Circuit Championship 2×. Future Fortunes, PESI and Pink Buckle enrolled. Consigned by Copper Spring Ranch

e are honored to join some of the top breeders in the country to bring a select group of horses to the Copper Spring Ranch sale this year.

Please look them over, ask questions and enjoy your time with us in Bozeman! Copper Spring Ranch Sale Graduates will be eligible for the annual $5000 Sale Graduates Bonus added to our Open 2D Futurity, May 29–30, 2020.

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TRHEAVENSILLUMINATED 2018 Stallion by leading barrel sire JL Dash Ta Heaven ($1,909,996 barrel earners) × TR Dashing Badger ($850,000 LTE, 2X NFR Average Winner with Jill Moody). Bred to be a barrel racing super star, this stallion is consigned by the Thomas Ranch

ORION GUY 2017 Gelding by A Smooth Guy ($536,000+ barrel earners) out of an own daughter of Ronas Ryon (si 105 with $1,777,967 LTE and progeny earnings of $8,948,653).

PIF Future Fortunes, Pink Buckle Enrolled. Very forward moving, balanced and strong. Consigned by Mill Iron Livestock

COATS FABONTHEROCKS 2016 Filly by Frenchmans

KG DONTBLEVMEJUSWACH 2018 Stallion by A

LK SHE FAMOUS 2018 Filly by Dash Ta Fame out of LK

JL ALBESCENT 2017 Gelding by Ivory James ($301,567 EquiStat barrel earners) and out of an own daughter of Red ($476,000 barrel earners) and a granddaughter of Runnerelse, who won $50,000+ barrel racing. PIF Future Fortunes. Consigned by Jill Lane Quarter Horses

Streak Of Fling ($3.78 Million Progeny Earners) out of KG Justiceweexpected (2017 NFR Qualifier and American Semi Finals Champion; $388,000 LTE). PIF Future Fortunes.

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Shezapeasadinero who has earnings of over $150,000 in the barrel pen and is a full sister to Tammy Fischer’s mare LK Sheza Hayday, who qualified for last year’s NFR. She is the total package. Consigned by Kassie Mowry

Fabulous ($2.2 Milion Barrel Earners) out of Firewaterontherocks mare; her dam is also dam of Daisy Duke Dash ($35,000 LTE). She is a big mover with a lot of drive. PIF Future Fortunes. Consigned by Sue Smith and Rhonda Coats

opper Spring Ranch is based in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Gallatin County, and has modern indoor and outdoor arenas, two covered stall barns and state-of-the-art RV hookups for our guests. We are located at 601 South Pine Butte Road, Bozeman, Montana 59718.

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AS PART OF A MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP, YETI has been named the Official Drinkware and Cooler of the National Barrel Horse Association.

YETI will not only promote products to NBHA members, but barrel racers will have the opportunity to win YETI products, such as the Tundra, Hopper and Rambler at NBHA World Championship Shows.

“We couldn’t be more excited to partner with such an elite brand such as YETI. The horse show life can be grueling, and there’s not a better product that stands up to such a vigorous lifestyle,” NBHA executive director Sherry Fulmer said. “We’re excited to not only partner with YETI but give our members the opportunity to win prized YETI coolers that will serve them for many years to come.”

Founded in Austin, Texas, in 2006, YETI has since been the brand of choice for those entrenched in an active lifestyle. With the same drive and passion as the NBHA, YETI has continued their pursuit of excellence as industry leaders with unparalleled creativity and innovation.

“We are extremely proud of our partnership with the NBHA for the coming years. The NBHA is a distinguished platform for barrel racers of all skill levels, and we are grateful for the opportunity to be in partnership with an association that embodies the spirit of our company,” YETI rodeo specialist Peyton Bennight said. “We are inspired by the hard work and dedication shown throughout the barrel racing industry and are fortunate to support those competitors and the NBHA.” This is an exciting time for the NBHA, as the association has undergone a series of changes, which have included the unveiling of a new logo and the release of a redesigned website. Learn more and see the complete NBHA tour schedule at nbha.com.

Barrel Horse News Takes Home Two American Horse Publications Equine Media Awards THE ANNUAL AMERICAN HORSE PUBLICATIONS EQUINE MEDIA CONFERENCE DREW HUNDREDS OF EQUINE MEDIA PROFESSIONALS, publishers and companies to Albuquerque, New Mexico, from May 30–June 1. The conference featured various educational seminars, networking events, and the presentation of AHP Equine Media Awards for work published in 2018.

Barrel Horse News was honored to accept two awards—first place in Service to the Consumer to managing editor Kailey Sullins’ article in the February 2018 issue “Well Rounded and Willing” about Jordon and Justin Briggs’ training program, and honorable mention in Editorial Design for art director Susan Sampson’s work on “A Grand Design,” an article in the May 2018 issue on horse facility layouts written by Abigail Boatwright.

For more information on AHP and a complete list of winners, visit americanhorsepubs.org. To read these awardwinning articles, visit barrelhorsenews.com.

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RIDE TV IS EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE EXTREMELY POPULAR STOCKYARDS PRO RODEO SERIES has a new home on broadcast television via Ride TV. Ride TV will be covering all the action from the Stockyards Pro Rodeo series from the Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas, beginning June 28 through August 17.

“Ride TV is proud to have started and still be headquartered right here in Fort Worth,” Ride TV President Craig Morris said. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner up with one of the most historic rodeo venues of all time, the Cowtown Coliseum, for a really entertaining and competitive series. It’s great for Fort Worth and great for rodeo fans everywhere.”

The Stockyards Pro Rodeo series features a rodeo every Friday and Saturday night at the Cowtown Coliseum through August 17. Friday night rodeos will be taped and air on Ride TV on Saturdays from 7 to 9 p.m. ET. and will be immediately followed by a live broadcast of the Saturday night rodeo from 9 to 11:00 p.m. ET. Ride TV will also be live-streaming the Friday night slack via Ride TV Go at no cost to viewers.

“We feel Cowtown Coliseum is one of the premier venues in the sport of rodeo, and we are excited to be working with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association,” Cowtown Coliseum general manager Tim Lanier said. “We have more rodeo performances per year than any other venue, and this will allow us to expand our contestant base.”

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BITS OF SUCCESS The Kathy James two-piece twisted mouthpiece helps trainer Ivy Hurst keep her horses soft for everyday training.

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Using the Bit “I like to use a Kathy James bit on a daily basis. It really keeps my horses soft; it allows me to lift their shoulders up and bring them through their turns. I don’t run a lot of horses in it unless it feels like the perfect thing for them. It’s just a great tuning bit for me, and I can’t stress how soft it makes my horses.”

Mouthpiece: Two-Piece Twisted “It seems to be something I can put on everything. It’s not intimidating, it’s probably a medium to large twist, so it doesn’t sore up their mouths. I seem to be a twisted fan, so this is my go-to.”

Shank: Medium Length, Straight with Reverse Gag “When I first got the bit I wasn’t sure about it, but the more I used it the more I understood it. I like that it has a bit of a delayed reaction so if my hands aren’t in the right place it’s more forgiving. The horses tend to react really well, and the softness I get is unbelievable.”

Curb Strap: Loose Chain “It works best with a looser curb strap. I didn’t think it was supposed to be that way when I first got it, which is probably why I didn’t like it as much—I had it tight. I asked some other trainers and they said no, loosen it up. It gives the bit a little more feel, more flexibility, not so scary on the colts, and it doesn’t react quite as fast. It just feels better loose, and I like a tight curb strap, but it works really good that way.”

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Barrel Horse News had an opportunity to speak with Gottsch about the details surrounding Rodeo New York.

Why do you feel the timing is right to bring rodeo back to Madison Square Garden?

Gottsch: “We’ve had great success bringing The American to Arlington, Texas, in AT&T Stadium for six years now—that’s been a great event for RFD-TV. With the launch of The Cowboy Channel, we needed another iconic event for that channel. There is a great history and tradition of rodeo at Madison Square Garden, and it’s our desire to bring that back, which is what made the venue a logical choice. We contacted Madison Square Garden and they embraced the idea of bringing a championship rodeo back.”

Who are some of the rodeo athletes fans can expect to see competing in NYC? Gottsch: “It’s an invitational rodeo.

Our theme has been to invite world champions in their respective events.

We extended 65 invites and almost immediately we had 63 confirmed

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athletes. One thing I’m very excited about is that Amberley Snyder has accepted the invitation to compete at Rodeo New York, and we’ve also brought her on to do some reporting.

What a story Amberley has and how inspiring she is to so many people.

We’re looking at having a “Walk, Ride, Rodeo”-themed float in the Rose Parade leading up to Rodeo New York, of course inspired by the Netflix movie of Amberley’s story. We love barrel racing and we’re very proud to also have Sherry Cervi, Callie duPerier, Hailey Kinsel, Lisa Lockhart, Brittany Pozzi-Tonozzi and Fallon Taylor confirmed.

“We’ll also be including breakaway ropers like Jackie Crawford, Lari Dee Guy, JJ Hampton and Madison Outhier. We’ve had such great support from the cowboys and cowgirls as well as the stock contractors like Frontier Rodeo who will be bringing their stock.”

What will make the experience unique for fans?

Gottsch: “Fans have really embraced what we’ve done at AT&T Stadium, and we’re hoping the same thing happens in New York City by bringing world championship rodeo to that part

of the country. It’s also going to help the athletes generate new fans who may not have had a chance to see them perform before. We’re organizing a daily Fan Zone experience, and we’ll spend all year promoting Rodeo New York through national and local public relations efforts.

Rodeo New York will be heavily promoted during the National Finals Rodeo and during The American. We’ll start a ‘Road to New York’ during the NFR, much like we do with ‘Road to The American.’

“Rodeo New York takes place on Father’s Day weekend in 2020, so I hope many people will choose to bring Dad to the rodeo and experience the genuine Western lifestyle at this familyfriendly event. It’s also going to give visitors a chance to go to Central Park or go visit the Statue of Liberty and other famous landmarks while they’re there.”

The Cowboy Channel’s Rodeo New York Who: 65 rodeo athletes What: $1 million prize money When: June 19–21, 2020 Where: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York How to Attend: Ticket prices range from $25-$550, encompassing eight pricing tiers for every level of rodeo fan, and can be purchased starting June 11, 2019, via ticketmaster.com.

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Ideas, Tips and Chatter with Charmayne James

Prospect Tips

Set clear goals when committing your time, finances and hard work toward the right barrel racing prospect for you.

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THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO START DOWN THE PATH WITH A PROSPECT but unfortunately, in some cases, they select a horse that’s not suited to the task. Different people have their own unique agendas, so it’s very important to dial in to what your end goal is and identify the steps you’ll take to get there. You have to decide exactly what you hope to achieve with your horse and be specific. Is barrel racing what you hope to do for your career? Do you intend to train a prospect that you’ll eventually take to professional rodeos? You’ve got to plan accordingly. Buying a prospect to help further your career as a barrel racer as opposed to one that’s purely to have fun riding at local races are two totally different things.

Identify Your Timeline

If you buy a 15-year-old horse to start on the barrels, there’s nothing wrong with that, but you have to understand that by the time you train it, season it to competition for a year or two and get the horse running and winning, it’s 17 years old. Hopefully, with good management, it can last for as long as you hope to run. An older prospect might suit your situation just fine, but you have to identify clear goals.

Know that if you purchase a weanling, yearling or 2-year-old, it’s

Charmayne James earned her 11th world title and seventh average crown on “Cruiser” (Cruisen On Six) in 2002.

important to determine if entering futurities is part of the plan. If you want to go to 4- or 5-year-old futurities, some bloodlines are known to be faster maturing for the different futurity age brackets. The other side of that is some bloodlines might not hold up as well physically for rodeo, even if they make nice futurity horses.

Research performance bloodlines and visit with trainers and breeders who have experience with both futurity and rodeo horses. Spend time looking and shoot for the best odds possible to obtain your objective. Look at the magic crosses for bloodlines that excel at futurities, because while there are no guarantees, bloodlines do help dictate training timelines. Trainers have to determine what schedule will best suit their prospects. We’ve seen other horses that didn’t make it as futurity horses run with success at other levels of competition.

“Scamper” (Charmayne’s 10-time Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion registered as Gills Bay Boy) obviously trained really well and really fast, but he was very broke when I started riding him. Scamper had been ridden a lot in the feedlot. He knew how to frame up and get around, because he had a great foundation.

If you’re interested in a certain pedigree, study other horses bred that way

Finding Cruiser When I bought Cruiser I was looking specifically for a Streakin Six-bred horse, and there weren’t many around. A friend of mine told me about a colt consigned to the Clovis Livestock Auction Horse Sale. It’s a funny thing, because Scamper had gone through that same sale. Scamper went through a number of different sales, actually. I heard about Cruiser being in the sale, then I read in the catalogue that he was out of a Master HandLady Bugs Moon mare, and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve got to go see for myself.’ When I looked in the pen, he was in with about 10 other horses. He was about 14.3, which is a size I like. I thought, ‘OK, that’s good.’

I climbed into the pen and he pinned his ears and came at me. I had to get out of the pen. I thought, ‘Well, he’s got the grit to be a rodeo horse.’ If you’re new to horses, that’s definitely not the best indication that you should purchase one that acts that way, but I saw an opportunity that could work for me.

Cruiser had been started as a racehorse and didn’t show any early speed. Then he was sent to a reining trainer for 30 to 60 days, so I liked that. When I started riding Cruiser, I could feel the training foundation he had, but he was just a noodle. He was so flexy, but he had a good stop on him even then. Every chance I got to gather cattle or track steers, I did it. I roped too, so I had a chance to track the lead steer and do things like that to give him a job, which is something I believe is very important for horses. Training on the barrels comes faster, in my opinion, if a horse has worked cattle, been roped or ranched on, and done jobs to keep their mind occupied. A lot of the great horses I’ve had in my career got started on cattle in some way.

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She Sells August 10

JL Rocket Queen 2018 sorrel filly by JL Sirocco (barrel earners $385,000+) × Lanes Leinster dam. Magic cross for barrel horses in her bloodlines, DTF & Lanes Leinster. PIF Future Fortunes, Triple Crown 100

He Sells August 10

JL Albescent 2017 bay gelding by Ivory James si 103 (barrel earners $234,208+) × JL Antares by Red (barrel earners $476,000). JL Antares—2015 Greg Olson/Classic Equine Futurities Avg Winner. PIF Future Fortunes

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JL Fire And Desire 2018 sorrel filly by JL Sirocco (sire of 2019 BBR World Finals 1D Champion) × Aquire A Fire by Fire Water Flit. This filly is a full-sister to JL Lava Roc, who sold at the 2016 BFA sale for $27,000.

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JL Rocochet 2018 sorrel filly by JL Sirocco (BHN 2018 No. 2 Up and Coming Sire) × French Pistol Anie—full sister to French Streaktovegas, French Streakin Jess and French Streaktorodeo. PIF Future Fortunes, Triple Crown 100

JL Roc Of Ages 2018 sorrel gelding by JL Sirocco (barrel earners $385,000+) × Lanes Leinster dam. Magic cross for barrel horses, Dash Ta Fame & Lanes Leinster in his bloodlines. PIF Future Fortunes, Triple Crown 100

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For example, Kristie Peterson’s “Bozo,” (four-time WPRA World Champion registered as French Flash Hawk)—that bloodline of Sun Frost seems to transition from futurities to rodeos very well.

What I Look For

It’s so important that a horse has a good foundation, regardless of your preferred bloodline. I have to know they are not just broke to ride, but broke to know their leads, lope those perfect circles we need in barrel racing, and move each body part in soft response to rider cues.

There are no rules set in stone, but from experience with different types of horses, in general purely race-bred horses take more time to mature than those with a combination of race and cow breeding. That said, race-bred horses tend to have better odds of being fast.

For me, I want something about 5 years old with 30-60 days of reining training, or a horse that’s been roped or ranched on by someone who’s a really good hand who understands how to keep a horse framed up and collected.

Ideally, I like it if a young horse has been hauled enough to have seen the sights. I like a horse with some natural cow that knows to slow down and rate.

The type of horse I’ve described is great for about any level of rider. Keep in mind, you’re going to pay for that background and riding because you’re paying someone else for their time and work—it might be worth more to you in the long run. The No. 1 thing when buying an already-started prospect is to do your homework to know as much as possible, because so many things can be done incorrectly. You don’t want a horse that’s had trauma and mental instability from being started wrong, unless you’re

intentionally buying a horse to save it from a bad situation. Know that a horse like that will have residual effects and might have a few skeletons in the closet.

Within a year, definitely into the second year after having started my prospect on the pattern, I’d want to start hauling the horse to some amateur rodeos and rodeo slacks to see how it adjusts to performing away from home.

A lot of times horses work differently in front of a crowd, and we ride them differently too.

As you start the process of selecting a prospect, remember making a finished barrel horse is hard work, but very gratifying as you see them develop into a solid, confident performer.

For more information on Charmayne James and her updated clinic dates, visit charmaynejames.com. Email comments to bhneditorial@ cowboypublishing.com.

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World Champion Reflections

Choosing the Perfect Prospect Use these tips from world champion Hailey Kinsel to select your next barrel prospect.

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BY HAILEY KINSEL

FOR BEING FAIRLY YOUNG, I HAVE HAD A GOOD BIT OF EXPERIENCE LOOKING AT PROSPECTS. My mom, Leslie, bought a few yearling and 2-year-old colts to train and ride when I was growing up, and when I got into high school, we started doing it together. “Sister,” (DM Sissy Hayday) for example, was one of those prospects we purchased together when I was a freshman in college. We were buying prospects to keep for ourselves, as we were not a training operation, so I learned at a young age to be very meticulous about selecting the perfect colt.

We have been asked before, “Where do you get your colts?” The fact is there is no magic fountain of potential winners out there. Finding the right prospect takes patience, experience, and doing your due diligence to determine if this colt fits you, your family and your goals.

A few general pieces of advice for someone looking at a prospect for purchase would be to find out the colt’s history, learn if they are likely to be trainable and determine their physical soundness for barrel racing.

When looking at a particular prospect, we like to learn as much as possible about the history of that horse.

We ask the breeder all about how the colt was raised, such as the temperament of the mare and the environment they lived in when the colt was young. We then ask about how the colt was halter broke and weaned, and how it handled that situation. Leading into how the colt was started, the breeder may wish

to refer me to the colt starter, who would have a first-hand perspective on how the colt took to being broke and trained. Keep in mind breeders care about their horses and will more than likely be willing to divulge this information to a serious buyer.

Even through a sale, the breeders and colt starters are often present and as interested as the buyer in getting the colt in good hands to improve their program and reputation.

A necessary trait in a barrel racing prospect is trainability. To get an idea of the colt’s trainability, the buyer can look at their pedigree, ask the colt starter and observe the colt’s personality by being around it at or before the sale. A horse’s personality is partly bred into them, and partly developed in their early years.

As far as bloodlines go, some are more willing than others to work. We like to study the industry and pay attention to what bloodlines other people have had success on, as it is likely that breeding produces a willing, trainable animal.

We will then quiz the colt starter on how easily the colt took to learning new things, even as simple as the daily grooming and saddling routine. Lastly, by developing a keen eye for horses, or taking someone more experienced along with you, you may be able to notice intelligence and willingness in a colt as they are shown to sell.

In my opinion, the most important aspect of buying a prospect for barrel racing is determining soundness. We ask ourselves, “Is this horse built to

run and turn?” If there is any obvious unsoundness, we will scratch that colt off our list. A common misconception I see in the barrel racing industry is some believe that how a horse is bred determines its potential ability. The truth is, it doesn’t matter what is on the horse’s papers if it came into the world put together in a funny way. That just happens—some colts get the best parts of their sire and dam, and some are a combination of their parents’ weaknesses. If there is a weakness in their body that will hinder the colt’s ability to do its job later in life, I don’t want to spend my time and money on that colt. If the colt appears wellbalanced, sound and travels nicely, I will then ask the seller for any current X-rays or the option to vet-check the colt and take X-rays. While that does cost more money upfront, I believe it will cost me less in the long run to go ahead and find out if that prospect has any issues before purchase.

Learning these details about a prospect can put you leaps and bounds closer to being ready to purchase your dream colt. While looking and dreaming, keep in mind just because a colt is bred to be a barrel horse doesn’t make it a potential winner. If that colt has a positive history, is trainable or its parents were trainable, and is sound and strong enough to handle the physical stress of running and turning, then the colt has a chance of being a potential winner. Having good help in your corner to teach you what to look for is always beneficial, whether that is your parent, friend or coach, or in my lucky case, all of the above. Good luck in your search for the perfect horse for you.

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Training Feature

Carlos Renato’s training program focuses on respecting the individual horse’s needs.

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HEN CARLOS RENATO WAS A YOUNG BOY GROWING UP IN BRAZIL, HORSES WERE HIS PASSION. Without one of his own, he had to adapt to the horses other people allowed him to work with.

He also had to ride them the way they wanted him to. That experience set the tone for Renato’s barrel training program, where every horse is treated as an individual and with respect.

“I try to keep it as simple as I can for the horses, but doing that benefits me too,” Renato said. “I don’t try to have my own style—I try to respect the horse the way he is. For example, a lot of people want the horse to carry his head in a certain way. For me, if he carries his head high in the air, I don’t care. If it’s too low, then we’ll try to meet in the middle.

They have to be broke in the face and be respectful of my hands, but they have to be comfortable too.”

RELEASE AND RESPECT

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Just as Renato respects each horse’s physical attributes and deficiencies, he respects their mental ones as well. He allows his horses to be imperfect and lets them do one “bad” thing that they enjoy doing.

“Some horses when they’re nervous like to shake their head, play with the bit or paw the ground for their comfort,” Renato said. “I think it is important to allow them to do one of those things. You pick—he can do the thing with his mouth or he can paw—but he can only do one.

If you don’t let him do either, then you’ll stress him out because he hasn’t got a way to express that he’s nervous. If I don’t let the horse do one ‘bad’ thing, then he’s going to be unhappy. He’s going to be uncomfortable. He’s going to hate me, and he’s going to hate his job.”

Renato uses release of pressure to let the horse know when it has performed the correct response.

“The release is the only thing the horse truly understands. The release thanks the horse for what he did for me,” Renato said. “When you release pressure, the horse will lick his lips or take a deep breath. When you are riding, take notice of the horse’s ears because if you are pulling or kicking too much, the horse will tell you.”

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Daily chores such as feeding and cleaning stalls gives Renato time to bond with the horse and to assess his program.

“It’s a time when I can think. Usually that’s when I realize if a horse is sore, or it’s when I finally realize the reason the horse isn’t happy,” Renato said. “I also pay attention to how much manure is in the stall and the color of it, which lets me know how healthy my horses are.”

Feeding enables Renato to see if the horse is leaving food behind or needs more feed. He also monitors water intake.

While Renato agrees that having barn help is nice, he prefers to keep the number of horses he has in training low, and ideally of better quality, so he can care for the horses himself.

“I like to win and I like to do good, but I love this sport and I don’t do it for the

money,” Renato said. “I don’t keep more than 10 horses, because I don’t think I could do a good job or do it all myself if I had more.”

Daily grooming is another way Renato learns about the horse and shows the horse that he likes it. The way the horse reacts to the pressure of the brush enables him to evaluate if the horse is becoming sore or if it is responding to treatment for soreness.

STARTING YOUNG

Horses in Renato’s program are started in February of their 2-year-old year and ridden for two to three months. They then enjoy a two-month break before returning to work for another 30 days.

For the remainder of their 2-year-old year, the horses are on a month-on, month-off work cycle.

“They’ve got to have the horse life when they are young and they have to develop physically,” Renato said. “When they are in work, they stay up in the stalls with slinkies and blankets on. When they’re not working, they are out in the pasture being a horse.”

Sticking with the theory that simplicity works best, Renato doesn’t do many drills but he does work three barrels in a straight line.

“When they are 2, I do more straight line work and don’t focus on the turn so much until their joints are stronger,” Renato said. “It also helps you get more control of their body. It teaches them to listen to your legs.”

WORKING AT HOME

Renato’s horses are ridden six days a week, with the work being done at home or at a friend’s arena. Young horses are worked on barrels five times a week while they are learning the pattern. Older horses may only work the pattern twice a week.

Renato usually doesn’t start going to exhibitions until June of the 3-year-old year.

Renato catches and saddles his own horses and then rides them from the barn to arena. This takes about five minutes at a walk. Depending on the weather and the horse, he may lope around the pasture as well.

The warm-up sets the tone for the work. Horses that have a long stride and want to run remain collected during the warm-up. Renato concentrates on the their foot placement and makes sure they are listening to him. Horses with a short stride do long trotting to encourage them to reach farther with each step.

The horse should be soft in the ribs, free with its shoulders and be broke in the face, but Renato doesn’t demand that they break at the poll.

SHOULDER CONTROL

Shoulder control is the foundation of Renato’s program. By concentrating on controlling the shoulders, the hind end

The horse is soft in the face and bending without the reins being pulled. The horse is following its nose and not relying on the outside rein to keep its shoulder up. Its ribcage is bent around the circle and the horse is driving with its hind end in good position to turn around a barrel.

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Training Feature The circle work transfers directly to barrel work.

The horse’s body is in the same position as he turns the barrel and reaches with the hind end.

naturally gets up underneath the horse. It also keeps his program simple and is easier for many people to understand.

“If the horse is light in the shoulders and you have control of the shoulders, then you have a 100 percent chance of having a better turn,” Renato said.

Most of Renato’s shoulder control work is done riding forward on a small circle. Doing rollbacks off a fence is viewed as a last-resort option for a horse that is “pig-headed.”

“I think rollbacks are aggressive, because the horse has to really work for it,” Renato said.

On the circle, the horse must follow the inside rein. The horse should follow its nose, remain balanced and stay bent around the rider’s inside leg.

“When I do slow work, I need to do the same thing I do when I run—when I turn the barrel, I drop the outside rein and they follow the inside rein,” Renato said. “That way they’ll know what to do when they are making a run. You want them to get comfortable so they can do it by themselves, because every time you have to pull on the horse or have to help the horse, you lose time. The shoulder has to follow the nose, which means that it will be kept upright. Use your inside leg to hold the shoulder up. I use my thigh

to keep the shoulder up, but if you can’t do it with your thigh, then use your calf.”

Renato starts working on a 10-foot circle at a walk.

He then asks for the trot and gradually moves up to the lope.

“To check that you’re not cheating, drop the outside rein and see if the horse stays on the circle. If he drops his shoulder, then use your inside leg to lift the shoulder up,” Renato said. “I want the horse to be relaxed and to be able to do it by himself.

If he’s doing it correctly then I leave him alone, because if he’s doing it correctly and you keep pulling on the rein or kicking, then he’ll get confused.”

When both reins are picked up, the horse should rate or stop. How hard the horse rates or stops will increase with how hard Renato picked up the reins and sat down. When riding a horse that wants to stop, Renato is careful to not let it stop too hard, as this causes unnecessary wear and tear on the hocks and stifles.

“I like the horse to have a good stop, but he doesn’t have to stop hard because that’s not required in barrel racing,” Renato said. “But when I sit down in the saddle, they need to have the sense of slowing down.”

GOING AROUND THE BARREL

Give the horse the best chance at having a perfect turn by driving it forward with two hands. When the horse is one stride away from the barrel, take your hands back toward the saddle, drop the outside rein and go to the horn. The horse should follow the inside rein around the barrel.

The outside rein is only used to keep the horse moving forward to its spot.

Top photo: At the start of your run, set the horse up to have a good first barrel by riding with two hands toward the third barrel.

Sit deep in the saddle so the horse doesn’t throw you forward or make you lose balance when it takes off.

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Top photos: The rider’s hands have been dropped and the horse is working the barrel on its own. The horse is using its hind end going into the turn, and the rider is sitting deep in the saddle to turn. (B) The horse continues to move forward while on the backside of the barrel. In another stride, it will complete the turn and reach forward toward the next barrel.

Center photos: Renato sits square in the saddle and waits for the horse to finish the turn. The inside rein is inactive but is still giving direction to the horse.

The outside rein is loose—remember that every time the rein is pulled, time is lost.

Right: Unsaddling the horse and allowing it to have a few minutes of free time after working the barrels correctly is the ultimate release for the horse.

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“Once I drop my hands, the horse knows to slow down, but if you go to the saddle horn too soon then the horse will turn too soon and you will have to pick the horse back up and tell it to keep going. The horse has to be going forward the whole time. If the horse is not moving forward, then he will be short on the barrel,” Renato said. “Don’t use the outside rein to tell the horse to move away from the barrel, use it to drive the horse forward.”

On a gritty horse that sets hard to turn, Renato moves his hands farther up the horse’s neck between the barrels. On a free runner, his hands are positioned closer to the saddle horn. Lower hands give the free runner comfort and confidence that you

are there to guide it, while higher hands encourage a ratey horse to keep moving forward.

When moving your hands up and down the neck, remember to keep your butt in the saddle.

“If you’re up out of the saddle and leaning forward in the turn, then you might be able to get by the barrel, but once the horse is in the middle of the turn, it won’t be able to come back as quick as it could, because all of your weight is up on its shoulder,” Renato said.

Renato prefers to teach his horses to work off of leg pressure rather than kicking hard.

“Imagine if you had someone on your back kicking at your lungs—you couldn’t

A roll is the perfect way to relax after a hard workout.

breath. Use your thighs and sit as quietly as you can. Even on a push-style horse, sit as quiet as you can,” Renato said. “If you want to go faster, work on your hands and keeping your butt in the saddle and work on your position going into the barrel, because that’s how you go faster—not from kicking and whipping more.”

To do this, he recommends staying at the trot when working the pattern—especially for children or when riding older horses. Trotting allows both the horse and rider to have time to think and breath and prevents the horse from cheating.

About Carlos Renato Carlos Renato grew up in Brazil. He had no contact with horses until he was 13, when he fell in love with a horse that was pulling a wagon. He asked the owner, a farmer, if he could help out with the horse. In Brazil, children attend school from 7 a.m. until noon.

After eating lunch Renato would go work at the farm, where he usually stayed until 10 p.m.

“The horse had to pull the food to feed the pigs and the cows, and even himself,” Renato said. “We would go cut grass someplace, put it in the wagon and then take it home for him to eat.”

Another neighboring farm had a string of bucking horses and two Quarter Horses. Over time, Renato started helping them out too. Eventually he was introduced to barrel horse owner Henrique Dagostin.

“Henrique showed me what barrel racing really was,” Renato said. “He took me to a competition, and I fell in love with it.

We stayed all day watching, and after it was over and people were riding in the arena, a guy came and asked me if I wanted to walk his mare around. That was my first contact with a real barrel horse. From

then on, I knew that was what I wanted to be.”

After working with various people, Renato started helping Eduardo Pereira.

His main job was to saddle, unsaddle and wash horses, but his passion for learning was obvious and he was soon riding the horses.

“When I was 15, Eduardo gave me the opportunity to run my first horse, Tari Boy, and start competing in the juvenile [youth] division. I won it that year, which was pretty awesome,” Renato said.

Renato soon got his own customers, and by the time he turned 20 was winning at the national level. At the

Grand Prix in Porto Feliz, Sao Paulo—one of the biggest competitions in Brazil—he met Lance Graves, who offered him a job.

While moving internationally was a big change and he didn’t speak much English, a month later Renato was in the United States and spent 18

Carlos Renato trains out of Jim and Joanne Coates’ ranch near Weatherford, Texas.

months with Graves before returning to his homeland.

In 2014, Renato moved to Weatherford, Texas. He now trains for the public at Coates Farms.

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“If the horse isn’t getting around the barrel like he is supposed to, you can tell that at a trot,” Renato said. “If he won’t do it at a trot, then he won’t do it at a lope or when he is running, so you need to work at getting it perfect at a trot.”

BITS

Renato recommends trying different bits until you find one your horse is comfortable working in. When putting on or taking off the bridle, take care that the horse doesn’t feel rushed. Allow the horse to grab the bit and take it into its mouth on its own. When taking the bridle off, let the horse drop the bit and roll it off the tongue. Take care that the bit doesn’t hit the teeth.

“If you run the horse a lot, it will start to pull on the bit no matter what bit you have in the mouth,” Renato said. “I don’t run my older horses at the house—they trot and lope, and if they get excited and want to run, then I go to a jackpot. I do that even with my futurity horses. If a horse is hot, then I use two different bits.

I say, ‘this is the bit we work at home in, so relax,’ and ‘this is the bit that we run in, so you can get excited.’”

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Renato says horses need to associate the arena with positive vibes. To help horses develop this association, Renato unsaddles his horses in the arena and gives them time to relax.

“If I’m on a colt and we’re cruising through the pattern and they’ve done a good job, I’ll get off in the middle of the arena, pet the horse, take the saddle off,

take the boots off and let the horse roll and run around for a little bit. Then I’ll catch him, put everything back on and take him back to the barn,” Renato said.

Taking the saddle off is a big release for the horse. While it adds time and work to Renato’s day, he believes the psychological benefits are worth the extra effort.

MAKING RUNS AT THE HOUSE

Runs at the house are important in building confidence in Renato’s futurity horses.

This enables the horses to become solid and understand expectations before they are hauled. Before going to an exhibition, Renato likes to take them to a friend’s arena so he isn’t rushed to get the horse in and out of the arena within the allotted 60 seconds.

“Once I have their confidence, then I will take them to an exhibition,” Renato said. “If they’re running hard for a 3-yearold and I feel like they’re ready to go somewhere else, the first three or four times I haul I will not ask for that same speed we’ve been running at the house.

That’s because I want them to be confident before they run hard.”

Each futurity horse will do four to five exhibitions to allow the horse to become comfortable with various set ups. The first few exhibitions are slow, and if the horse is working well, it may be asked for more speed. The final exhibition is usually at the trot.

Bridget Kirkwood is a Texas-based freelance writer. Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@cowboypublishing.com.

For more tips from Carlos Renato on hauling and stalling as well as effective warm-ups, visit barrelhorsenews.com.

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A sound and confident barrel horse is well-equipped to face competitive demands. Getting there takes thoughtful consideration of your equine athlete’s training and soundness as well as an objective view of your riding.

The

WHY IS MY HORSE NOT WORKING? Is my horse unsound, untrained or a little of both?

Severe unsoundness—a head-bobbing lameness, rapidly swelling tendon or epistaxis (bleeding from the nose)—leaves no question.

Sometimes unsoundness shows up in the form of behavioral or training problems. Other times it can be simply a training issue.

Is the horse refusing the gate because the rider is nervous or is it fearful of the pain to come once inside the arena? Is the horse blowing off the turn because its hocks and stifles are sore, or because the rider is using too much inside rein? Is a sore back making the horse take the turns too wide or was it never trained to collect and hold its frame?

For the non-professional and weekend barrel racer, unsound or untrained is one of the most confusing problems they will ever face. It’s a yucky question for someone just wanting to enjoy the sport.

Finding the answer means admitting you might be the problem and it might be an expensive fix—either with your horse’s healthcare professionals or a trainer.

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Frustration

Is my horse unsound or untrained?

Most professional trainers are going to head straight for the veterinarian before the subtle stuff shows up in a run because they’re confident in their horsemanship abilities. They’ve also been on enough horses to feel the difference between a lack of understanding and pain-induced reactions.

“Most people don’t realize something is wrong until it just explodes,” said clinician and barrel horse trainer Paul Humphrey.

“You need to go have your horse checked out to make sure he’s OK, because the last thing you want to do is be working a horse that physically can’t do it.”

Humphrey says people end up with major issues because they often times don’t know what correct, balanced movement feels like on a horse.

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“You need to go have your horse checked out to make sure he’s OK, because the last thing you want to do is be working a horse that physically can’t do it.”—Paul Humphrey

Training Issue or Not?

When Humphrey is working a horse, he’s paying close attention to how the horse is using its body.

“One of the biggest things is you have to determine if the horse is not understanding or incapable?” Humphrey said.

“Why can’t they hold that backend? Why aren’t they collecting and connecting?”

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“If you look at barrel racing today, it’s much more common to see these careerending injuries,” Humphrey said. “I think a lot of that has to do with preparation and making the horses bodily strong enough to do what we’re asking of them and knowing how to turn when we get to the barrel. A lot of these horses are going to turn no matter what, because they have the heart and the drive. They’re going to give 100 percent. Sometimes legs can go everywhere, and I have to blame that on the rider or the trainer because they’re not taking the time to actually train and prepare the horse how to move around the barrel correctly and keep everything together.”

Incorrect movement also causes the anxiety that comes with unsoundness.

“The horses get lost and nobody puts them back together and keeps them comfortable,” Humphrey said.

Former National Finals Rodeo qualifier Martee Pruitt has made her living by looking for “explosions” that she can fix through veterinary work and mental rehabilitation.

“I’d see these horses go and think they’re sore,” Pruitt said. “They want to work and they want to win, you just have to fix them up. People are always calling me, ‘This is my problem. What do I need to do?’ Well, my first question always is, ‘Have you had your vet look at him?’

There is almost always a problem. They don’t wake up in the morning and say ‘I’m not going to work today.’ They want to work. You’ve just got to get them to where they can.”

Pruitt would look for affordably priced problem horses hoping she could rehabilitate them in mind and body. A trip to her veterinarian is always her first step.

“Physically you get them fixed, and then you fix the mental,” Pruitt said. “The mental takes longer than the physical, because you have to get their confidence back and let them know they can win. I always tell people you have to pet your horse a lot. I pet on them. I tell them they’re great. I spend a lot of time just rubbing on them, letting them feel like they’re special. It’s the special horses that are winning.”

It can be difficult to determine if performancerelated issues are the result of unsoundness or training. A trip to your veterinarian is the first step in getting to the bottom of a problem.

He can find answers through how a horse responds to his drills. For instance, if he has a horse that’s not holding leads behind while working a tighter circle, he’ll try to work through it.

“Usually if it’s the horse not understanding, they’ll come around pretty quickly,” Humphrey said. “With the design of the drill, there’s always a way you can make it more comfortable for them. If you make it more comfortable and they’re still not able to hold that inside, the first thing I’m going to do is look at the hocks and stifles. If there’s nothing there, we’ll go up a little higher.

You see a lot of SI (sacroiliac joint issues) and stuff like that. Suspensory [injuries] are very common with barrel horses.”

The process isn’t much different with young horses, who are learning and growing at the same time. Those horses are going to get sore as part of the process.

Younger horses sometimes present a bigger challenge than older, seasoned horses. Since a young horse is both growing and learning at the same time, trainers have to determine if the horse is having difficulty understanding or if something physical is causing the problem.

“When I see or feel a difference in my colts, I go back to the basics and slow them down,” said James Barnes, a leading futurity trainer and rider. “When I speed them up again, if I’m still not getting the response I was getting a month ago, I normally stop what I’m doing and make a vet appointment.”

For example, Barnes noticed one of his futurity prospects had started bouncing in his turns. The change was the red flag.

“He’d run straight to his rate point and start jarring, bouncing, when it was time for him to melt into his turn,” Barnes said. “He wasn’t dragging his hind end and bringing that inside back leg up to power around the turn. The horse wasn’t

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Beyond regularly consulting with professionals like your veterinarian and farrier, veterinarian and barrel racer Lauren Davang Meighen recommends taking advice on your riding from a trainer or a small group of trusted friends.

doing anything bad, but his turns weren’t as smooth as they were a month ago.”

To rule out a training problem, Barnes reinforced the basics, by going back to his “station work,” which consists of tire drills away from the pattern.

“After I did my tire exercises, he was doing it correct slow but wasn’t when I sped him up,” Barnes said. “The torque of going faster was just too much. So, I made a vet appointment.”

The horse ended up needing his hocks injected.

“I give them the benefit of the doubt,” Barnes said. “They’re young, they get confused. Have I put more pressure on them than they’re comfortable with? I take all these things into consideration before I make the vet appointment.”

Once Barnes establishes it isn’t a misunderstanding in the training, he’ll move to the next step.

“If I know they were working great a month ago and all of a sudden they’re not the same confident, consistent horse that

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I had, and I’ve got to go back to the basics and slow them down mentally, and I still don’t get the response I’m looking for…I make my vet appointment,” Barnes said.

Is It Me?

“Not everyone is a professional trainer,” said veterinarian and barrel racer Lauren Davang Meighen. “Not everyone can keep a horse together its whole career without help, and that’s not a bad thing.”

Using her knowledge as a veterinarian and staying regimented with her horse’s health care—keeping shoeing and dentistry up-to-date and doing periodic maintenance exams to make sure her horses are feeling 100 percent—Meighen has an advantage in knowing her horse is sound.

However, she also knows she has to send her horses to her trainer Jan Powell for periodic tuning, especially since her job prevents her from riding as much as she would like.

“I have to ask myself, ‘Am I causing this?’” Meighen said. “If I have a baseline

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and know she’s feeling good and things aren’t right, I know it’s time to go to Jan to see if it’s a man-made problem or just part of the training and seasoning process.”

Meighen says one of the ways you can tell if it’s a training or soundness issue is if all your horses have the same problems.

“If the same thing happens on multiple horses—all my horses anticipate the second barrel and float out going to the third barrel, that’s a sign it’s probably a training thing,” Meighen said. “You have to ask yourself, ‘Is this me doing this? Do all my horses do this?’”

Especially telling on a horsemanship issue is when a new horse quits working after a short while. If not addressed, it can become a soundness issue as well.

Generally, the problem is the original training has worn off, Pruitt says.

“You usually have a month if you go a lot, or two or three months if you don’t, before a horse’s training has worn off,” Pruitt said. “They come to you trained and tuned, so it’s important to know how

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to keep them that way. A lot of people don’t know how or they don’t want to do that. I always tell people to call me after a couple months. I’ll have to show you or tell you how to keep the horse working.”

With horses he’s trained personally and sold, Barnes says he often knows the horse well enough that he can tell right away if it’s a tuning or soreness issue.

“I remember things the horse did in the past that required maintenance,” Barnes said. “If they start doing those types of things again, you generally know what you need to have done. That makes it a little easier when they come back to me with an issue. Most of [my clients] have ridden with me for so long, they can call me and say the horse is doing this and I can tell them what to try and they can fix it on their own. When they can’t fix it on their own, they send it back to me. I’d say 90 percent of the time it’s a lameness or soundness issue.”

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and tuning issue. For example, Barnes had one horse he was literally tuning on for every run. After watching to make sure the rider was correct and not causing the issue, Barnes recommended going to the vet. The horse wasn’t visibly lame but also wasn’t performing at previous levels.

Another question barrel racers have to ask themselves is if the horse is capable of doing what they want.

“Not every horse is going to be the level of horse you want it to be,” Pruitt said. “I use the analogy of a basketball player. Every little kid can play basketball and every horse can run barrels at a certain level. You’ve got your 4D horses and they’re like a junior high player. Then you have 3D horses, and they’re like a high school player. Quite a few people can still play in high school. Your 2D horses are your college players. Those guys are pretty good, but not every high school guy can play in college. Not every 3D horse gets to be a 2D horse. Then there’s the Michael Jordans and Kobe Bryants—the special ones. Those are the rodeo horses that are in the 1D the majority of the time, and there aren’t many out there.”

Sometimes horses are physically limited, and you have to cut back to keep them performing at their desired levels, notes Meighen.

“Take the average weekend horse that’s chasing points in a yearlong season, plus the weeknight jackpots or smaller buckle series runs,” Meighen said. “Those horses may be making three to four runs in a weekend, not even counting if they run poles. I’ll ask the owner what their riding schedule is like, how often they practice, how often they practice fast and how much they haul. I politely suggest that could be a lot for this horse. Maybe you should pick barrels or poles with this horse and not both, or maybe not commit to every series. Sometimes that’s a lot to ask a horse to do, especially if you’re not accustomed to how much maintenance a horse hauling that heavily may require.”

As a veterinarian, Meighen recommends developing an open, comfortable relationship with your horse’s vet.

“If you have a good relationship with your clients, you can have open conversa-

Positive reinforcement from the rider can help rebuild confidence in a barrel horse that is coming back after a soundness issue has been resolved.

tions like that,” Meighen said. “Education is a big thing. If they never know what they’re doing is wrong, they’re going to keep doing it. I had one person who had done everything by themselves and just had no idea what they were asking was too much.”

Rebuilding

Once you’ve eliminated the soundness issue, you still have to address the reasons why it happened, prevent it from happening again and rebuild the horse’s confidence.

“If you find out your horse’s back is sore, I want to know why is the back sore?” Humphrey said. “Something else can be going on causing the back to be sore. I think you need to educate yourself a bit more. These horses are athletes, and we put them in some not-so-good situations. Understanding the mechanics of a horse’s body is very important. I find that’s a big weakness in the barrel racing industry. All the body parts are connected, and you truly need to understand that to train a horse. If you do understand it, you’re going to get a lot more consistent with how and what you do. Horses learn

by repetition. They don’t learn by bouncing around.”

If you’re constantly changing how you ride and what you’re doing to get a response, you’re creating confusion and anxiety for both the horse and rider.

“If you look at barrel racing, we have more setbacks than any discipline,” Humphrey said. “You see horses running off. You see them do all kinds of things they’re not supposed to. Then look at your working disciplines, and they’re pretty consistent. I think it’s those trainers being consistent and knowing how to train the horse’s body.”

A horse that’s collected and connected is also more apt to stay sound, because they stay balanced instead of overloading just one part of their body.

“A horse has to be balanced, working both sides of the body,” Humphrey said.

“One of the biggest things with barrel racing is inside shoulder control. Most people don’t understand that you don’t just do that with inside rein. There’s more to it than that. It takes both sides. When you have that balance, they can go into a barrel and stay underneath you.”

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“Their feet are going everywhere and it’s not comfortable,” Humphrey said, recalling watching a video of a horse that was disconnecting its hindquarters halfway through a turn and the rider didn’t realize it. “A couple runs like that and the horse is going to get sore through the back and hips. He could damage his stifles and suspensory [ligaments], too.”

Once you understand how a balanced horse feels, you can catch subtle problems before they become serious. That’s what Barnes felt when his futurity prospect started bouncing from sore hocks.

Once he had the medical issue addressed, Barnes rode to rebuild the horse’s confidence rather than going straight back to the pattern.

“I gave him seven days off, and when I went back to working him, I did my tire stations in circles,” Barnes said. “I also set up one barrel, and I would lope around the arena and ask him to rate down and

turn the barrel to rebuild his confidence. I did that for a couple of days. When I went back to the pattern, it was like he never missed a beat.”

Maintenance at a young age is just as important as it is for older horses, if not more so because you’re just starting to create a pattern of behavior.

“Those babies are still learning, and confidence is everything,” Barnes said. “If they’re getting sore and they’re not performing consistently, they’re going to stop being confident and start dreading their job. They’re going to look for a way out.”

As Pruitt mentioned earlier, rebuilding a horse mentally can take longer than the actual physical healing. Take one of Pruitt’s recent projects. The mare had a first barrel issue, but was flawless on the second and third.

“The first thing I did was take her to the vet,” Pruitt said. “Her right side was a mess. I got her hocks injected, and we did chiropractic on her three or four times.”

The first time Pruitt took the mare to a

barrel race, the goal was slow and correct, not winning the jackpot.

“I didn’t go fast, but she wrapped her first barrel,” Pruitt said. “She won second in the 2D. I thought that was great, because now she has to get her confidence back. I had one lady tell me, ‘You could have won the barrel race if you had run to the first barrel.’ I said, ‘Maybe next time.’ We went slow because I wanted a nice first barrel, and she’s going to have a couple more runs like that. Maybe she’ll have a whole summer of runs like that.

I’m going to do whatever it takes to get her confidence back.”

Getting Help

Barrel racing may be predominately nonprofessional, owner-operator, but that doesn’t mean you have to go it alone.

“You have to be smart enough to know if your horse is scared or green,” Pruitt said. “If you don’t know, you need someone to help you. I’m really lucky that [my husband] Troy watches me. You need

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You need a small circle of professionals and confidants to limit the confusion of multiple opinions.

“It’s important to have a small circle of people you go to for advice,” Meighen said.

“Barrel racers can be really bad about going to the internet and asking everyone their opinion. You get so many answers that you can’t try them all, and still nothing gets changed. I believe you need a trainer you go to, a veterinarian or two and a farrier or two—that you trust—and a person you can confide in, and keep it there.”

When you start widening your circle, steps get repeated and things get lost in translation. Vet hopping is one thing that can get expensive and still leave you with no answers.

“I hear it a lot—people will go and get no answers from the vet,” Humphrey said.

“They start getting leery of the whole veterinary process. People will start bouncing around from veterinarian to veterinarian, but sometimes it takes months to figure out what’s wrong. We stay pretty consistent. We don’t bounce around. Your veterinarian needs to be one who will go above and beyond to find the problem, even if the horse has to stay there overnight and they have to block everything, so you can address it and move forward.”

That’s not to say that second, and on rare occasions, a third, opinion is a bad thing, notes Meighen. She also points out that veterinarians will discuss difficult cases within a practice or seek out colleagues who have expertise in certain areas.

“We’re not miracle workers, and sometimes getting to the bottom of things is a process,” Meighen said. “It works so much better when we can build trust with clients, so you can have frank conversations. Maybe the horse needs a tune-up?

Maybe we need to talk to the farrier?

Maybe we need to look at what I’m doing and you need to go get a second opinion.

Those conversations are so much better when you have a solid relationship with your vet. The same thing applies to your relationship with your farrier.”

Most importantly, stick with the process.

“You have to see things through,” Meighen said. “You can’t be making changes every two months. If you’re always jumping to the next bandwagon fad, you won’t know what’s truly working for your horse. Like every barrel racer, I like bits, but if I’m going to make a bit change that’s usually a conversation I have with my trainer. You have to keep your changes small and keep track of them.”

Tanya Randall is an avid barrel racer and freelance writer based out of Texas. Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@ cowboypublishing.com.

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FEED Make sure your futurity horse is getting the right mix of nutrients for growth and performance.

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A HORSE GROWS AND DEVELOPS THE MOST DURING ITS WEANLING AND YEARLING YEAR, but when it begins training and competing as a futurity horse, its dietary needs will change yet again. Two nutritionists and futurity trainer Shelley Holman share their advice to help ensure your horse is getting everything it needs at this crucial juncture in a horse’s life.

Left page: Make sure to select a commercially prepared feed from a reputable source to help ensure a proper ratio of nutrients.

Below: Getting your hay analyzed allows you to have a better understanding of its nutritional value.

Bottom right: Alfalfa hay may be a better choice versus coastal for a hardworking futurity horse.

A CROSSROADS ERA

Horses preparing for and competing in futurities are in a unique time of development. No longer growing at the rapid pace of their weanling and yearling years, these 2-, 3-, and even 4-year-old horses are placed on a rapid plane of growth, and the nutrition they receive needs to meet those goals. Jessica Leatherwood, DVM, says there are important considerations to promote the longevity of a young performance horse.

“The biggest thing I find from a nutritional perspective is that young horses need to be fed a balanced diet,” Leatherwood said. “That means they are given enough nutrients in their hay and their grain, and these nutrients are in the proper relationship with each other.

Without a balanced diet, that horse’s growth and development will be hindered and can ultimately lead to some type of unsoundness problem later in life.”

Thanks to the prevalence of routine radiographs on horses going to sales, there’s a greater focus on developmental orthopedic diseases and other bone problems in young horses. While underfeeding can lead to a reduction in growth or bone problems, overfeeding, which Leatherwood says is more commonly the scenario for futurity horses, causes rapid growth, with a greater chance of metabolic bone disease. You need to balance between a diet that is high in energy,

which helps achieve maximum growth, with what is healthy for that horse.

“We want to make sure we’re not overwhelming the skeletal system of a young horse, because if we’re putting extra weight on a young skeleton, that’s undesirable,” Leatherwood said. “The bones are not sufficiently developed to carry a heavy weight load.”

THE NECESSITIES

Many futurity horses are fed what Leatherwood calls stored forage, meaning hay such as coastal Bermuda grass or a legume such as alfalfa. Particularly important for young horses is selecting a highquality hay that gives the young horse the nutrients it needs for both growth and development.

“If we provide a higher-quality forage, we can help reduce or mitigate the risk of metabolic disorders or colic that we typically find in a high grain-based diet,” Leatherwood said.

If you don’t know the nutritive value of your forage, Leatherwood recommends having your hay analyzed by a laboratory so you can see the crude protein percentages, fiber, calcium and phosphorus elements.

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Your feed tag can contain some valuable information, such as the breakdown of amino acids present in the feed.

bio-available nutrients for the body to absorb.

Once you know if there are nutrient deficiencies in your forage that don’t meet all your young horse’s requirements, Leatherwood says you can consider a commercial concentrate or grain specifically designed to meet the individual requirements for young growing horses.

Leatherwood says cereal grains such as oats fed alone are naturally higher in phosphorus. She cautions against cutting a commercial feed with a single cereal grain, as it can upset the balance of the concentrate, possibly disrupting a young horse’s growth and development.

Futurity horses are not only growing, but they’re also undergoing work as they’re training and competing. This requires additional energy in their diet.

Leatherwood says carbohydrates are considered the primary fuel and the most flexible energy source for the horse. But that’s not always easy to discover on the feed tag.

“Feed tags list energy as the percentage of fiber in a concentrate,” Leatherwood

said. “The lower the fiber content, the higher the amount of energy. Be sure to look at the percent of crude fiber, and that can give you a better idea of the relative energy provided in that concentrate.”

Leatherwood says most diets for futurity horses should include fat, which can also provide energy for the horse. Feed tags list fat as crude fat. She says most cereal grains have about 3 percent naturally occurring fat. Commercial grains can include more, such as 8 percent fat, which indicates the mix has added fat.

Protein is often thought to provide energy, but Leatherwood says this is a misconception.

“It’s not favorable to utilize protein as an energy source,” Leatherwood said.

“Protein is more beneficial as building blocks for lean tissue development, which is very important in a growing horse, compared to being utilized for energy.”

Protein contains amino acids, which are the building blocks of that protein.

There are limiting amino acids, which, if not satisfied in sufficient quantities, can prevent the horse from attaining the rest of the nutrients it needs. These include lysine, methionine and threonine.

Lysine is so important that many feeds have the minimum amount of lysine present in the feed printed on the feed tag, in addition to the crude protein.

Also important to a diet are macro or micro minerals including calcium, phosphate, zinc, copper and manganese. These

are often present in the right proportions in reputable commercially prepared feeds.

Nichols says for a futurity horse, she looks to diets lower in starches and sugars, but a bit higher in fiber and fat to include the calories needed for energy and body condition. She prefers a feed that includes ingredients such as rice bran and beet pulp. She recommends avoiding corn, oats and barley on the one hand because of the possibility of the presence of toxins, and on the other because they are high in starch and sugar.

“It’s kind of like giving a soda and a candy bar to a little kid and then telling him to sit in a classroom and focus,” Nichols said. “You get peaks in the blood glucose and insulin levels, sugar high and then the crash, and it’s just not a good learning environment.”

She suggests looking for a nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) percentage on the feed tag or feed company website that is lower than 20 percent for a futurity horse.

For added fat, Nichols turns to oils such as soybean oil, rice bran oil, or flaxseed oil.

“Each oil will have differences in terms of omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, but they are all basically 99 percent fat and therefore offer the same amount of calories regardGiving your horse the right amount and type of nutrients is crucial to ensuring a healthy horse for the long term.

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Meet the Experts Dr. Jessica Leatherwood is an assistant professor of equine science at Texas A&M University, with a bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. in animal science from Texas A&M University. Her research includes developing diets for young performance horses that may mitigate the overstimulation of inflammatory responses in articulating joints. She lives in Bryan, Texas.

Dr. Jyme Nichols is a certified professional animal scientist in the equine discipline and director of nutrition for Bluebonnet Feeds and Stride Animal Health. She has a bachelor’s and master’s in animal science from Montana State University and a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University.

She lives in Sentinel, Oklahoma.

Shelley Holman of Brentwood, California, grew up riding horses in Alberta, Canada. She competed in Little Britches and high school rodeos, winning the 1980 Alberta High School Barrel Racing Championship and competing in two National High School Finals Rodeos. She married John Holman, a performance horse trainer and National Finals Rodeo saddle bronc rider, and moved to the United States. After a 10-year break spent raising three children, she returned to competing and began training barrel horses. She is a Women’s Professional Rodeo Association California Divisional and Circuit finalist as well as a futurity trainer.

less of which you choose,” Nichols said.

California-based trainer Shelley Holman puts her futurity horses on a good quality alfalfa hay and a complete feed. She prefers a feed with rice bran to keep weight on and coats shiny. She also prefers hay over forage cubes because it’s less processed.

BUILDING THE RIGHT DIET

Because a futurity horse is under a lot of stress due to training, hauling and competition, Nichols says it’s important to keep forage in front of your horse all the time.

“We’re putting them under some pretty stressful situations that could lead to things like ulcers and leaky gut syndrome,” Nichols said. “Most people don’t realize, but horses only produce saliva

when they’re chewing something. And saliva is a natural buffer to stomach acid.

If your horse has the ability to graze or eat hay in a slow feeder, they can chew throughout the day, which helps produce saliva and buffer stomach acid.”

To find the right amount of feed your horse needs, Leatherwood says look to the feed company’s website—often there’s a feed calculator to help you estimate how much of the concentrate your horse needs, based on your horse’s body weight.

“Ideally a scale is the most accurate in obtaining a horse’s body weight,” Leatherwood said. “But you can also use body weight calculations.”

For a futurity horse, Leatherwood says its diet should contain a 12 percent crude protein listed on the feed tag. This is a lower percentage of protein than say, a weanling or a yearling, but that doesn’t mean it’s less important—it just means the concentrations shift as the horse’s growth slows.

“About 90 percent of the horse’s mature weight is going to be achieved within 24 months, and about 90 percent of their mature height will be achieved by 12 months,” Leatherwood said.

Nichols recommends working with an equine nutritionist to determine which commercially prepared feeds are right for your horse’s needs. Even if you don’t go

Aside from following instructions from the feed manufacturer, evaluate your horse’s topline and body condition score regularly to see if you need to make adjustments.

that route, make sure the feed you select is from a company you trust.

SUPPLEMENTS

Leatherwood believes that if you’re feeding a balanced diet of a high-quality forage and a good commercial ration, there should be little need for additional supplementation to meet nutrient needs.

However, she says considering an oral joint supplement may be helpful as a preventative strategy and to help maintain joint health.

“We don’t have confirmed scientific benefit to supplements for joint health, but they won’t hurt, and they may offer prevention of inflammation that potentially leads to the early stage of developmental joint disease,” Leatherwood said.

“I would always suggest you consider purchasing from a reputable manufacturer and look at the relative concentration of the active ingredients.”

For futurity horses, Nichols is a proponent of including a plasma supplement to help prevent gastric ulcers and

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leaky gut syndrome, as well as immune system boosting and other benefits such as lung health. Nichols also recommends including a good prebiotic and a mega dose probiotic as part of your horse’s diet, particularly when traveling.

Holman has used supplements for vitamins and minerals and troubleshooting products for poor hoof condition, ulcers or coat health, as needed.

“There’s so much out there you can add, but I try to stay as simple as I can, because it can get pretty complicated,” Holman said.

EVALUATE AND ADJUST

Consistency is important, Nichols says.

Make sure to break up your concentrate

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Special Barrel Racing Prospects Section trainer shelley Holman keeps a sharp eye on her hard-working futurity colts to make sure they’re handling their training and competition schedule without needing any diet changes.

feedings into at least two feedings, morning and night.

“Horses will digest and absorb more out of a smaller grain meal than if you dumped all of its feed in the bucket at one time,” Nichols said.

Don’t select feed and hay in appropriate amounts for your horse and then forget about it. Our experts all say that monitoring your horse’s condition and adjusting the feed as needed is crucial.

“As we all know, some horses are easy keepers, meaning they don’t require a lot of feed to maintain their body weight, while other horses do require more than the average amount of feed to maintain their body weight,” Leatherwood said.

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horse needs may differ slightly from what is calculated for that horse to need.”

The best way to determine if your horse needs more or less than the calculated amount of feed is to monitor your horse’s body condition score. The Condition Scoring System will help you determine, on the scale from one to nine, what condition your horse is in.

Leatherwood says a five on that scale is considered a moderate score and ideal for exercising horses.

to dropping weight when they begin competing.

“Some horses are a little hotter and use up more energy, others are more laid back,” Holman said. “It’s such an individual thing.”

She looks for a slick coat and filled out flanks and hindquarters. She looks over her horses every time she grooms and saddles them to make sure their weight is up, their coats are healthy and they seem to be feeling good.

“the best way to determine if your horse needs more or less than the calculated amount of feed is to monitor your horse’s body condition score.” —Jessica Leatherwood, DVM “The way I describe this condition is that the ribs of the horse cannot be distinguished visually, but they can be very easily felt,” Leatherwood said.

Nichols says a horse that is a six or seven body score may look good, but keeping a horse at that weight will set them up for injury. If your horse is at that condition, she recommends looking at the caloric content of the diet and consider cutting back the grain amounts.

In addition to your horse’s condition, you also want to look at its topline, Nichols says.

“You can break the topline up into three areas—withers and mid back, loin, and croup area. If any of these areas appear concave, or sunken down, on either side of the spine, the horse may have a weakened topline. The strength of the topline can be an indication of the quality of the amino acids present in the diet,” Nichols said. “Not just the percentage of crude protein, but the actual amino acids present. You need to know there is the right amount of lysine, methionine and threonine in the diet.”

Holman keeps a sharp eye on her futurity horses’ condition, particularly when they start hauling for competitions. Sometimes the workload can affect their weight, and other times, it can be the horse’s personality. She says hotter, anxious-type horses may be more prone

If your horse is dropping weight, perhaps it’s on the road or working hard preparing for competition, Leatherwood says to first make sure your forage, or hay, is high quality and has good nutritive value.

You may want to consider switching from a grass hay to alfalfa.

Next, Leatherwood says to consider moving your horse to the higher end of the concentrate intake per day—upping the feed you already have. Finally, consider adding a higher fat ration or supplement, instead of additional carbohydrates, to maintain the nutrient balance.

Nichols recommends looking at your horse’s gut health if it’s suddenly dropping weight. Make sure it doesn’t have ulcers, and consider adding prebiotics and probiotics to help improve the absorption of nutrients in the body.

“If the horse is not holding weight, look at its gastrointestinal health and make sure its gut is functioning the way it should be,” Nichols said. “Then make sure you’ve got enough calories, the protein is coming from good quality sources, and you have enough volume. These horses are still young and growing, and they need more feed than what a mature horse would.”

Abigail Boatwright is an award-winning journalist based out of Texas. Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@cowboypublishing.com.

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NBHA Professional’s Choice Las Vegas Super Show EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Cheyenne Can Do Cheyenne Lindsey and LL Cat Man Do clinch Open 1D overall championship at the NBHA Las Vegas Super Show at the South Point Hotel and Casino Equestrian Center from May 30–June 2.

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THE SOUTH POINT HOTEL AND CASINO EQUESTRIAN CENTER IS ALMOST A HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE FOR CHEYENNE LINDSEY. The 21-year-old horse trainer from Litchfield Park, Arizona, has been running there since the National Barrel Horse Association Las Vegas Super Show’s inaugural year in 2013. She’s won a few go-rounds, but finally nailed down the Open 1D average championship this year aboard her trusty gelding LL Cat Man Do. “I knew going back this year that he likes that arena,” Lindsey said. “He won the first go last year with a 13.8…when I ran there last year I got three clean runs but my times were not consistent.

The fact he was consistent on all three runs and was fast and clean to win the average made that even more amazing.”

Lindsey had a busy weekend between the Super Show and her Women’s Professional Rodeo Association rodeo schedule—she’s in her rookie year after filling her permit in 2018. She says driving the extra miles to make a run on “Cat Man” in a big outdoor pen at a pro rodeo helped free him up for the indoor runs at the South Point.

“My first run we placed ninth [with a 14.425], and he felt really good but not as snappy as he had been feeling,” Lindsey said. “Saturday morning I

got up really early because I was up at Kingman (Arizona) pro rodeo in the slack, and we didn’t have any luck there but I put a different bit on him and really wanted to go out there and run him outdoors before coming back and running indoors, because he tends to stay [more free]. He’ll get tight running indoors.”

When Lindsey and Cat Man returned from Kingman for the second go of the Las Vegas Super Show, the Lyndee Stairs-trained gelding fired hard to win the round in 14.214 for $2,124.

“He felt awesome; I was super excited about that,” Lindsey said. “Coming into Sunday I just wanted to have a clean run, because I knew I had two solid runs and was going to be sitting in the average. I was just thinking to go around them, because it’s not easy to get

LL Cat Man Do and Litchfield Park, Arizona, horse trainer Cheyenne Lindsey won the Open 1D overall title with an average on three of 42.980.

The duo also won Open Race Two with a 14.214 for $2,124.

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Far left: Trainer Rick Manucy of Buckeye, Arizona, rode Jeepers Im Famous (2014 gelding, Dash Ta Fame x Genuine Images x Title Contender) to the 2D title with an average of 44.494. Ironically, Manucy has been Open 1D winner Cheyenne Lindsey’s biggest influence and training mentor since she was 7 years old.

Left: Carney, Oklahoma, resident Tami Hentz rode 19-year-old gelding AR Cowboy Up, by Ill Be Smart and out of Boons Sierra by Boon Bar, to the overall 3D title with an average of 46.053.

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three clean runs on him in an indoor arena and clock all three times.”

Cat Man continued to clock in Race Three, finishing eighth in the third round with a 14.341 for $365 to sew up the average. As if the weekend wasn’t special enough, Lindsey’s lifelong mentor and dear friend Rick Manucy won the 2D average. She credits Manucy for teaching her to train and run barrels as well as helping her get connected with National Finals Rodeo qualifier Sydni Blanchard, from whom she purchased Cat Man. “Rick pretty much raised me—I would have never met Sydni and probably wouldn’t even be barrel racing if I hadn’t met him,” Lindsey said. “He’s taught me 90 percent of what I know about how to train and ride barrel horses, and he is a huge factor in this win.”

Lindsey met Manucy when she was 7 years old riding an Arab pony in local gymkhanas and playdays.

“His sister moved in next door to my mom, and she talked to my mom about

her brother who trains barrel horses and took us over there,” Lindsey said. “I just hooked right up to him and started riding my horse over to his house every day after school to ride with him and learn everything I could. He took me under his wing and taught me a lot.”

Though Lindsey currently works full time for rope horse and cow horse trainer Jason Hershberger, her career goal is to train barrel futurity horses.

With Manucy in her corner, she’s heading in the right direction.

“Rick does a lot of that and he’s won on a lot of futurity horses, so he’s really gotten me into that and shown me what it takes and how to do it,” Lindsey said.

“I still have a lot to learn, obviously, but he’s really helped me get going and start my career as a trainer and rider.”

She added thanks to her sponsors Sundial Show Clothing, Robbie Phillips Saddlery, Formula 1 Noni, Dust and Bling Tack, Triple Crown Feed, CSI Saddle Pads and Sydni Blanchard with Team Fearless Barrel Horses.

Left to right, top to bottom: Junos French Flash (2004 gelding, The Dakota Frenchman x Junos Dashing Cat x Juno Dat Cash) and Dawn Colwell of San Diego, California, claimed the overall 4D with an average of 47.501.

Overall 5D champion Ruby Lightfoot of Riverside, California, earned the title with an average of 49.006 aboard Spats Royal Image, a 2008 Paint gelding by Spats Spittin Image and out of Royal Crush (PT) by Mr Orange Crush (PT).

Escondido, California, barrel racer Destri Devenport rode Buddy Rose (not registered) to the top of Open Race One in 14.158 for $1,256.

Quikcash (2005 gelding, Juscash x Naturally Sweet Babe x Sun Wind And Fire) and Britany Davis of Boulder City, Nevada, clocked a 14.222 to win Open Race Three for $1,217.

Blanche Schaefer is associate editor of Barrel Horse News. Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@cowboypublishing.com.

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Twice as Heavenly Cindy Patrick knows that a good break from the gate can mean the difference between first and second place.

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CINDY PATRICK IS ACCUSTOMED TO POSING FOR WIN PHOTOS. As a former flat track jockey, she’s piloted multiple horses to firstplace finishes. As a barrel racer, she and Flit Ta Heaven have celebrated numerous wins, including their latest at the National Barrel Horse Association Great Lakes Nationals in Gifford, Illinois, where the 60-year-old claimed the Open and Senior 1D championships.

“He is really fun to ride,” the Shelbyville, Indiana, resident said. “I hardly need anything to ride him. I only use a twisted wire snaffle on him. I just have to keep him freed up, especially in little pens, because he can overwrap his barrels.”

Cindy took an early lead in the standings with Friday night’s time of 13.9 for $1,076, finishing just ahead of Josie Reed and Seven Queen Angel’s 13.919. Marne Loosenort challenged Cindy and “Mouse’s” speed the rest of the weekend. Loosenort won Race Two aboard Lovin Fame with a 13.811 for $1,395 and Race Three on Sawyers Frosted Moon in 13.954 for $1,048, with Cindy a close second at 13.855 and 14.006, respectively. But Loosenort’s downed barrel in Race One on Friday

Redemption Run Chloe Whitesel found redemption in the Youth race. She and Hickorys Pine Cone weren’t having the best weekend, continually catching the second barrel. Whitesel and “Bingo” left it standing in the Youth race, and their time of 14.005 won the championship for $179. The pair also finished third in the Open 1D with a 14.005 for $872.

“I was really excited we won the Youth race,” Whitesel said.

“We had fast times all weekend but drug down the second barrel a few times. Bingo is a lot of fun to ride—he just finds the barrels.”

gave Cindy the edge to win the overall title for $2,908. Cindy rolled her time from Race Two to the Senior race to win a second Gist Silversmiths buckle for the weekend.

Cindy’s time as a Thoroughbred jockey was the perfect preparation for the 7-year-old gelding.

“When Mouse leaves the alley, I kind of have to jump like I was riding out of a starting gate because he leaves so hard,” Cindy said. “He is a really tight turner and fast runner.”

The duo has been running together for four years. Mouse was a surprise birthday gift from Cindy’s husband, Gary. Gary spotted the impeccably bred colt as a 3-year-old at his breeder Jud Little’s annual sale. Gary asked past Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion Janae Ward Massey, who previously worked for Little, to check the horse out and bid on him.

Gary finalized the sale and shipped Mouse home without Cindy knowing.

“Gary told me to go get a horse off the trailer. I wasn’t sure what he was talking about because we didn’t have any horses on the trailer that I knew of,” Cindy said. “I went in the trailer and there he was. It was quite a surprise.”

In their four years together, the duo has also qualified to RFD-TV’s The American Semifinals twice.

The 15-hand Quarter Horse is built more like a Thoroughbred—a little leaner and lankier—than boxy stock breeds. His stature and running style make him the perfect match for Cindy, who rode the 1987 Thoroughbred Claimer of the Year, Gene. The Patrick

Cindy Patrick won the Open and Senior 1D championships riding Flit Ta Heaven.

couple purchased Gene for $150 after the horse fractured a cannon bone. They gave him six months off and he returned stronger than ever, winning 16 of 19 starts.

“Gene was fun to ride but could be pretty ornery,” Cindy said. “He would only run as fast as he had to to win by a head or a neck. If he got an eyeball on a horse, he wouldn’t be beat.”

Although Cindy retired as a jockey in 2000, she remains active in Patrick Stables, the business she and Gary own together. They manage a string of 30 Thoroughbred runners, splitting their time between Florida and Indiana. Gary, 72, is the head trainer and continues to shoe all the horses in his barn. Cindy begins her day at 4 a.m. six days a week, mainly hauling horses between the track and their home barn.

“We trade horses in and out between the track and our home, and it’s a 40 minute drive each way,” Cindy said.

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Contact us at (805) 440-3270 Left to right, top to bottom: Marne Loosenort finished reserve in the Open 1D with times of 13.811 and 13.954 for $1,395 aboard Lovin Fame (Dash ta Fame x Moons special Leader x special Leader).

Chloe Whitesel rode Hickorys Pine Cone (Hickory Bingo x Pineys Combo x Docs subscription) to the Youth 1D championship with a time of 14.005 for $179.

Johnny Johnson claimed the Open 2D overall title and $1,372 with times of 14.409, 14.575 and 14.48 riding Roux Red Ride (Hez Just A Jiggolo x BF Red Roux x shuttleman).

Ellie Franks won the Open 3D title riding KL Handlebar Pep (smartest Little Pep x Handle Bar Flo x Mr Peponita Flo x Peponita) to times of 14.958 and 14.959 for $936.

Kim McCutchen captured the Open 4D aboard Playboys smokin sally (CDs Expectations x HVR smokin Pepcee x HVR Freckles senbar) with times of 15.819 and 15.642 for $769.

“On the weekends, I tell them I’m off to the barrel races.”

Cindy’s jockey friends have always admired her grit and determination on the track but can’t fathom the balance and skill it takes to run barrels.

“They can’t believe we run wide open at a barrel for 100 yards and then turn,” Cindy said. “They just can’t believe we turn like that.”

Katie Navarra is a New York-based freelance writer. Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@ cowboypublishing.com.

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NBHA Syracuse Spectacular EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Lucky Third Chance

Tanner Shelton earns high-money title at NBHA Syracuse Spectacular from June 14–16, in Syracuse, New York.

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TWICE, TANNER SHELTON HAS FINISHED RESERVE AT THE NATIONAL BARREL HORSE ASSOCIATION SYRACUSE SPECTACULAR. On June 16, the stars aligned and Shelton finished as the overall high-money winner riding One Famous Chance after earning $4,430 at the Empire Expo Center in Syracuse, New York. He took home a gift certificate for a custom Alamo Saddle for the championship.

“This year it all just came together,” the Stokes, North Carolina, trainer said.

“I’ve finished second on ‘Chance’ before by a few dollars, and this weekend was finally my time.”

The pair took an early lead in the standings during Friday’s Race One, running a 13.988. From the first barrel, Shelton sensed the mare was putting together a good run. Chance turned equally well on the second and third, easily securing the top spot in the first race.

“I had only ever seen one other 13 run in that pen in the years I’ve been coming, and we happened to have a good one,” Shelton said. “I really like the Syracuse arena. It’s small, and you have to think fast. It’s unique from anywhere else we run.”

Bottom left: Brianna Woodmansee finished reserve in the Open 1D with times of 14.08 and 14.168, respectively, for a total $2,713 aboard CC Fancy Lil Cowgirl (2013 mare, DMAC Cowboy x Ninnekahs Lady Lexus x Ninnekah Bug). Her 14.168 also won the Youth 1D for $205. Also pictured, Katelyn McLeod (left) with FLAIR and NBHA Regional Executive Van Manley (right).

Bottom right: Elizabeth Reshetar claimed the Open 2D title with total earnings of $1,593 from times of 14.647, 14.903 and 14.489, respectively, riding JW First Toast (2010 gelding, First Comment x This Gals Toasted x Toast To Dash).

Tanner Shelton won the Open 1D championship riding One Famous Chance to times of 13.988, 14.098 and 14.069, respectively, earning a total $4,430 on the weekend.

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In Race Two, a bobble at the second barrel almost knocked Shelton out of the overall high-earner contest. As they bumped the barrel, Shelton dropped his reins in an attempt to right it and Chance bailed out to the middle of the pen. Despite the misstep, their 14.098 still clocked the fastest of the go-round.

“I thought we blew our chances,” Shelton said. “She was running hard and made me look good. She’s got a little coon tail, and we’ve always said coon-tailed horses are the best runners.”

Going into Race Three, it looked like Shelton and Chance would hold onto the weekend’s fastest time. But youth rider Emily Wilkins of Bath, New York, barely out-paced them, clocking a 13.987 on Sticki Nikki to win the final race. Shelton and Chance ran a 14.069, adding $953 to their earnings. Shelton won the overall title by nearly $2,000 over reserve finisher Brianna Woodmansee and CC Fancy Lil Cowgirl of Preston Park, Pennsylvania.

Shelton credits his grandfather David Eastwood with having a significant impact on his career and business, Tanner Shelton Barrel Horses. Ironically, Eastwood has never ridden a horse but discovered a talent for breeding and raising futurity horses that get their start on the track and then move into barrel racing.

Eastwood claimed Chance off the track for Shelton to train for barrels. Before finishing her career, she earned her American Quarter Horse Association Racing Register of Merit, and as of her last race in 2013, had a speed index of 92. Her AQHA racing earnings total $20,419.

“My grandpa and I are in this together,” Shelton said. “He’s had a huge impact on my career, and it wouldn’t be possible without him.”

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Top left: Sarah Atwood earned the Open 3D overall championship riding Peptos Spark Girl (2013 mare, Untouchable Playboy x BR Watch Her Spark x Shiners Jae Bar) to times of 15.406, 15.104 and 15.154, respectively, for a total $1,123.

Top right: New York NBHA State Director Samantha Eyster won the Open 4D title with $927 total riding HF Red Tari (2004 gelding, The Money Doctor x Miss Tari Boss x Iggies Golden Boy) to times of 16.109, 16.1 and 16.285, respectively.

Above: Marg Ten Hove won the Senior 1D title riding Whatever Shes Got (2014 mare, Famous Bugs x Sabrinas Earth Angel x Zip Cash) to a 14.215 for $231.

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All American Youth 2019 EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Topaz’s Trophy Michael Duffie and Eyesa Topaz win the All American Youth Championship.

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“YOU COULDN’T HAVE ORDERED UP BETTER WEATHER,” All American Youth Championship producer Lynn Feathers said of the 2019 event from June 12–15 in Jackson, Mississippi, which drew 745 entries ages 19 and under. The total payout was $151,736, and prizes included championship saddles, belt buckles, trophy halters, trophy pads, Resistol hats, Nutrena Feed coupons and MVP supplement bags, as well as Cinch embroidered vests.

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Riders gathered from as far away as Nebraska for the competition. Feathers said the highlight of the competition was how seamless it ran.

“Everything went so smoothly,” Feathers said. “It was smooth, nice and pleasant and the weather was great. We got a lot of good feedback.”

Leading Sires EYESA SPECIAL is a 1998 gray stallion with 27 money-earning offspring. His highest-earning offspring is Eyesa Topaz with $64,501. Eyesa Got A Hemi has earned $34,444, while Bunnys Gotta Pistol has earned $5,797.

Eyesa Topaz and Michael Duffie Top All American Youth

Michael Duffie of Williamston, South Carolina, had never ridden Anita Randle’s mare Eyesa Topaz before the All American Youth Championship. He and Randle discussed “Topaz” at length, but this was his first time to actually throw a leg over her.

Duffie brought several of his own horses to the event as well, but he had a rough time in the first two go-rounds, Topaz included.

Michael Duffie rode Eyesa Topaz to the top of the All American Youth Championship.

Below: All American Youth winners Michael Duffie, Jaylie Matthews, Savannah Elrod and Audree Ervin with Mike Green, Ralph Feathers and Talmadge Green in for 5D winner Emily Lamb.

STREAKIN AGAIN, a 1998 chestnut stallion, has 38 moneyearning offspring. His progeny have amassed $627,400 in competition, according to EquiStat. RLJ High Intedsity (sic) is his highest-earning offspring with $272,258, and Howes A Tycoon has earned $52,946. LLP Streakin Lady has earned $4,783.

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McKenzie Morgan Smashes Arena Record McKenzie Morgan broke the Mississippi state Fairgrounds arena record aboard In Firewaters Honor (Firewater special x Cachicka Bound x Mr Honor Bound). the pair from Maryville, tennessee, clocked a smoking 13.746 to win the second round for $1,426.

“I had tough luck. I tipped the second barrel with Topaz so I had a no-time in the first round,” Duffie said.

“The second go-round, I ran a 14.4 with her, which placed me right in the middle of the 2D and qualified me for the finals.”

For the final round, Duffie aimed to repeat what he did in the second go but hoped Topaz would respond better by clocking faster. He was determined to improve at a show he’s dreamed of winning for years.

“This show has been one of my goals ever since I’ve been running,” Duffie said. “I have been trying my hardest the past three years to win this show. I really wanted to go in there and do good.”

Duffie made a few changes, with positive results.

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All American Youth 2019 surprising him by coming in to watch him compete.

“It made me feel really good, made me want to do even better,” Duffie said.

The 17-year-old says catch-riding is something he does frequently for Mike and Janelle Green. He knew the caliber of horse he had under him in the multiple Open 1D champion mare, and listening to Randle was the key to winning with Topaz.

“Topaz is very unique, but in a good way,” Duffie said. “She tries every time.

She tries to please you no matter what you ask her to do. She loves what she does, and she loves her owner. She tries her hardest in the arena every time.”

Jaylie Matthews won the 2D championship riding LLP Streakin Lady.

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The pair stopped the clock at 14.020 in the finals, winning the round. Duffie was awarded $8,000.

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“It still hasn’t really hit me, honestly,” Duffie said. “I’m just blessed and truly thankful to Anita for allowing me and trusting me to jockey her horse. I’m speechless­—I can’t believe it happened the way it did.”

Duffie says the highlight of the show was his father and grandmother

Although Jaylie Matthews’ family owns LLP Streakin Lady, Jaylie only just started riding the 6-year-old mare, who was trained by Nicole Monroe, the weekend before the All American Youth Championship. Although their relationship is still new, Jaylie appreciates how hard “Jada” tries.

Going into the All American Youth, Jaylie’s strategy was simple.

“I just wanted to try to win big, go clean, have fun and not fall off,” Jaylie said with a smile.

In the first round, Jaylie guided the mare a little past the first barrel, but says she had a good second and third barrel.

In the second go, the pair ran a 14.531 to qualify for the finals in the 2D. In the finals, she ran a 14.520 to win the 2D for $6,000.

“I just didn’t want to hit a barrel, so Far left: Savannah Elrod of Douglas, Georgia, topped the 3D charts for $5,000 with a 15.023 in the finals on Undercover Lover.

Center: Audree Ervin and “Shiloh” of Sontag, Mississippi, ran a 15.544 to win the 4D and $4,000.

Left: Pressley Green, daughter of NBHA world champion Michael T. Green and granddaughter of NBHA world champion Mike Green, carried the All American Youth flag in the closing ceremonies of the All American Youth.

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Left to right: Charles City, Virginia, resident Emily Lamb and “Cinnamon” stopped the clock at 16.069 to win the 5D for $3,000.

Elaina McKinney rode WRs Kool Memories to the top of the first round with a 14.041, worth $1,213.

Pony race winners sophia Davis, KK Pruitt and Kash Pruitt.

I kept pushing her,” Jaylie said. “I was pretty happy with how she worked with me, for it being my first real run on her.”

The 18-year-old says her favorite thing about the All American Youth Championship is the chance to see fellow competitors.

“I love getting to see my friends there who I don’t usually see,” Jaylie said.

“And, it pays amazing.”

Jaylie thanked her mother Kim Matthews, father Terris Matthews and her grandparents for supporting her.

Abigail Boatwright is an award-winning journalist based out of Texas. Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@cowboypublishing. com.

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Thanks for the Memories The last OE Bonus Race Finals in Lincoln, Nebraska, awards $223,845.

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PRODUCER RENAE BOLLING’S WELL-FAVORED BONUS RACE FINALS, SPONSORED BY OE NUTRACEUTICALS, CLOSED ITS HISTORIC RUN AT THE LANCASTER EVENTS CENTER IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. With more than $40,000 in added money and more than 2,700 entries in the two main races from June 6–9, the lucrative event had a cash payout of $223,845.

The Bonus Race, which is only open to qualifiers, awarded $126,175 for 1,478 entries. Contestants earned Bonus Race qualifier identification numbers throughout the year. While they could have unlimited ID numbers, each contestant could only run the same horse twice.

Riders could also earn ID numbers through the $10,000-added Open To The World Race, held in the smaller indoor pen. The Open, held concurrently with the Bonus Race, drew 1,250 entries and awarded $54,240.

Next year’s Bonus Race Finals looks to be bigger and better with $50,000 in added money plus numerous prizes including six trailers. The race is scheduled for June 24–28, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Staring at the posted results left Summer Kosel close to tears. The busy mother of four, ranging in age from 13 to 4, and her recently acquired ride Docs Royal Win won the Bonus Race with a 15.975, worth $5,299.

“I did have a very blessed weekend,” the Glenham, South Dakota, barrel racer said. “I always proclaim over my horses before I run—Proverbs 21:31 ‘The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.’ I never run without laying my hands on my horses and saying this verse.”

After having the winter off due to the historic snowfall in the Dakotas, “Mini” was more than ready for the battle. The 13-year-old mare made four runs over the weekend, two in the Open and two

in the Bonus, and won money for Summer on every single trip.

“When I go to Lincoln, I always start out in the big pen, the Bonus pen, because I want my horses fresh going into that big pen,” Summer said. “I ran in the big pen Friday morning. She ran really well, but to be honest, that was the biggest pen I’ve ever run her in since I’ve owned her. We literally don’t have anything like that up here, so that was the biggest pen I’ve ever run her in and I didn’t ride her very well.”

They were 16.243 on their first run Friday, and posted a pace-setting 15.975 Saturday morning. Moving to the Open arena Saturday night, Summer and Mini ran a 14.076 and then bettered that time Sunday morning with a 14.067.

After she and her eldest daughter, Hope, finished running in the Open, they stopped by the Bonus Race, which was still in progress.

“I had been in the other arena the whole day,” Summer said. “My daughter and I drifted over [to the Bonus arena] when they were on about the last 20.

I didn’t even know my time was still leading. He announced my time was leading it, and my daughter says, ‘Why don’t we stay in here and watch to see if you end up winning it?’ I said, ‘I don’t know if I want to.’ She convinced me, so we sat there and watched.”

Overall, Summer and Mini also placed eighth in the 1D of the Bonus Race for an additional $1,987. Their runs in the Open finished ninth and 11th in the 1D, earning $815 and

Summer Kosel and her recently acquired 13-year-old mare Docs Royal Win won the OE Bonus Race Finals for $5,299. They picked up a check on every run to earn $9,888 on the weekend.

$652, respectively. They also earned $1,134 from the daily sidepots. All totaled, Kosel and Mini left Lincoln with $9,888.

Kosel, who operates Smoking Guns Rodeo Company with her husband, Kevin Kosel, purchased Mini from her breeder Tracy Bridwell, a recently retired Lt. Col. in the North Dakota National Guard.

“I watched Tracy run her for several years,” said Summer, who was the lone barrel racer growing up with three roughstock-riding brothers. “She had done very well on Mini. It was just a freak deal—a God thing—how I ended up getting her. Tracy never planned on selling her. She had a different horse for

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OE Bonus Race Finals Left to right, top to bottom: Sandy McElreath and her homebred 14-year-old mare Truly Xpress Dinero (Dashing Dinero x New Lady Bug x New Settler (TB)) won the Bonus Race 2D for $4,416.

Debbie Nelson and Hesa French Dancer (01G, Frenchmans Guy x Steely Dancer x Twisted Steel (TB)) earned $3,533 for the Bonus Race 3D victory.

Okie Belle (11M, Okey Dokey Dale x Eyesabelle x Mr Eye Opener) carried Emily Holton to a Bonus Race 4D victory worth $2,650.

Brittany Nevius and Justa Reya Sunshine (13M, MCR Shine Tivio x Continentalena King x Frostys Pretty Buck) collected $1,766 for the Bonus Race 5D Championship.

sale my husband had seen. We thought it was Mini she was selling. Long story short, she said, ‘Summer, if you really want Mini, I know you will do much bigger things with her than I would ever do, and I will sell her to you.’ She was such a blessing. It’s amazing.”

Summer says even though they didn’t get much riding done over the winter, once they started running when the snow melted the fit was pretty instantaneous.

“We’ve clicked really well,” said Summer, who grew up riding her father’s off the track 3-year-olds in 4-H competition. “Mini is a bad cat, and she knows she is. You’ve got to stay out of her way. If you don’t, she will take the bit and say, ‘No. Too bad.’ The first run was a little rough because I got in her way, but once I learned to stay out of her way it’s been pretty good. I won a saddle about four weeks ago now, and just about every jackpot since, I’ve won on her.”

Kosel thanked producer Renea Bolling, her crew and the event’s sponsors as well as her husband for holding down the fort and watching their children while she and Hope were in Lincoln running barrels.

“He took care of everything at home and the kids,” Summer said. “My parents took them for one day and took them fishing on the river. My husband also ran over to a broncs and bulls event we had stock at. He needs a big thankyou because he deserves it.”

Open To The World

Jacie Etbauer of Edmond, Oklahoma, and her homebred Fols Frosty Man topped the Open and placed in the Bonus to earn $3,317 on the weekend.

“I love that race,” said Jacie, who thanked her sponsor Express Ranches.

“Renae does such a great job, and the crew members are super sweet. The race moves fast, and the ground is really good.”

Jacie actually made her winning run in a do-or-die situation, as she missed the opportunity to win money on her younger horse.

“It’s a funny story actually,” chuckled the daughter of legendary saddle bronc rider Billy Etbauer and his wife, Hollie.

“Thursday, we left the house a little late, so I missed my first run on my colt.

When we pulled in, I had 15 minutes before I ran [Fols Frosty Man]. I ran a 14.2 on my first run. The next day we were there, but I thought the little pen started at 5, but it started at 4, so I missed my run on my colt again.

‘Fonzie’ was my next horse, and that was when I ran the 13.9 on him. Right before I ran my mom said, ‘You better win this.’ I was like ‘Gee thanks, Mom. No pressure on me.’ Then I got lucky enough and won it. She said, ‘Maybe I should tell you that more often.’”

Although Fonzie may be 14 years old, he hasn’t had the miles many barrel horses have at his age.

“He’s been in the roping pen,” Jacie said. “We didn’t start him until he was 5 or 6, so he got a late start. [My brother] Treg had him roping. Mom started taking him out from the house when he was 8 or so, but the last three years we’ve done a little more. This last year we did quite a bit more, but that was when I started taking him. Mom and him fight a little. I got along with him better in the barrel pen. He’s a strong

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Jacie Etbauer and her family’s homebred gelding Fols Frosty Man set the pace in the Open to the World race at the Bonus Race Finals to earn $2,282.

horse. That’s why the roping helps him—it keeps him backed off. He’s been doing pretty good.”

Fonzie is by the Etbauers’ Sun Frost stallion PC Frosty Bid and out of the great mare Fols Debbie, by Fol’s Native (TB). He is a half-brother to Canadian Champion Barrel Horse and champion barrel horse producer and cornerstone Busby broodmare Lady Perks, owned

by Busby Quarter Horses. The maternal line has produced such recent standouts as Promise Me A Jet ridden by Jolene Montgomery, Famous Ladies Man ridden by Kassie Mowry and One First Class Lady ridden by Jordon Briggs, to name a few.

Most of the horses the Etbauers ride are by PC Frosty Bid or Whistle At The

Babes, by No Whistle and out of Fols Debbie.

Jacie, who is managing a dog boarding kennel to support her barrel racing habit, is interested in giving the futurities a try with her family-bred horses by PC Frosty Bid and Whistle At The Babes.

“I ran a mare for a lady last year, and I like that,” Jacie said. “I’m thinking about starting out with some 3-yearolds.”

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was on his National Finals Rodeoqualification streak cured Jacie of ever wanting to hit the rodeo road hard.

“We have friends who are like, ‘get in the truck with us and go up to South Dakota.’ Treg and I are like, ‘ehh, we’ve been there,’” Jacie said. “We’ve seen a lot of places with Dad. We were little, but we remember driving quite a bit.”

With her two good rodeo horses out with injury, Jacie may take Fonzie to a few rodeos close to home in the Prairie Circuit.

“Rodeoing is okay, but I like the bigger barrel races because I can run more,” Jacie said. “I think I’ll hit a couple circuit rodeos on him, but mostly go to the bigger barrel races.

I might enter him in an American qualifier if I can find one in a pen I like for him.”

Left to right, top to bottom: Celsey Clair rode My Cats Easy Money (11M, tap Cat x DC Nancy grady x Lenas Loaded gun) to a $1,902 2D victory in the Open to the World.

Annie Hiner and Rt Hancocks Freckles (07g, My Hancock x CB Colonels Cleo Leo x Colonels Leo san) topped the 3D in the Open to the World to earn $1,522.

Jillian Joyce pocketed $815 for winning the 4D in the Open to the World at the Bonus Race Finals on her Paint mare Luckys Jagged girl (03M, Luckys Real Reward x Denvers Jag girl x Denver).

Judi Hamaker and Willow Wood Hancock (13M, Nuwood Mega Drift x Willow star streak x Dry Fork Hancock) collected $598 for winning the 5D in the Open to the World race.

Tanya Randall is a veteran Barrel Horse News contributor based out of Texas. Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@cowboypublishing.com.

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Banking in Bozeman Copper Spring Ranch Classic, Futurity and Derby champions crowned in Bozeman, Montana, from May 31–June 2.

Article by Kailey Sullins Photos by Jackie Jensen Kelsey Lutjen and TS Queens Shake Em, a 2014 son of Frenchmans Shake Em and out of Queens Royal Ransom by Dash Ta Fame, earned the CSR Futurity championship from an aggregate time of 34.612, worth $3,710. All totaled, “Shaker” earned $8,040 in Bozeman.

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THE COPPER SPRING RANCH CLASSIC, OPEN, FUTURITY AND DERBY SHOWCASED TOP HORSES AND RIDERS AND PAID OUT $122,468 FROM 1,070 ENTRIES. Kelsey Lutjen rode TS Queens Shake Em to the Futurity championship. The gelding bred by Treasure State Quarter Horses and owned by Kevin Keller has been with Lutjen since his 3-year-old year. “Shaker” took a while to find his stride, but Lutjen knew success was in his future.

“When I got him started on the barrels I could tell he was talented, but he needed to mature,” Lutjen said. “He’s

just now starting to peak. He’s finally decided it’s pretty fun to go fast.”

In the first round, Lutjen says Shaker—along with the rest of her mounts—got short on the third barrel. The large standard pattern with the third barrel sitting on a wall was out of the ordinary for her colts, and it took them a go-round to get used to the pen.

“I was pretty confident until the first round,” Lutjen said with a laugh. “Like five of my horses scotched me going to the third barrel. I didn’t go back and work any of them in exhibitions. I just figured there wasn’t a whole lot I could do. I thought I might be doing more

Maggie Poloncic and Prime Time Ta Streak topped the CSR Open with a time of 16.903, worth $1,246.

“Digger” earned a total $5,429 on the weekend.

Cody Hyde rode CH Burnin Cheeks (Darkelly x CH Cheek Too Cheek x Nobel Pride), bred by David and Susan Cronquist, to the CSR Derby championship with an aggregate of 34.088, worth $1,880.

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Copper Spring Ranch Classic, Futurity and Derby damage doing that, and I should just forget about it and hope they’d free up, because they know what to do.”

By the second round, Shaker and the rest of her string had the arena figured out and stayed honest in their runs.

Shaker clocked a 17.096 in the second round for second place, and ultimately the gelding earned the aggregate title with a 34.612, worth $3,710.

“It’s been [awhile] since I’ve won a futurity, so it was pretty special,” Lutjen said, adding that having Shaker’s owners there to witness the win was also memorable. “Another cool thing is that I had never met [the Kellers], and Shaker is their first futurity horse. It was neat [that they got to be there to see him win].”

Shaker earned a lucrative chunk of Lutjen’s winnings at Copper Spring Ranch, raking in $8,040 from the futurity aggregate, go-rounds and side-pot incentives. Lutjen’s other mounts also

picked up checks, and the Collinsville, Texas, trainer went home with $11,362.

Poloncic Wins Open

Maggie Poloncic rode two standouts to a total of $7,454 at the Copper Spring Ranch event. Aboard Prime Time Ta Streak, Poloncic claimed the Open win, while Aint Seen Me Yet won the Classic.

“Digger,” a 2013 son of Prime Talent and out of Expressly Six by Streakin Six, was bred by Copper Spring Ranch but wasn’t started on the pattern when Poloncic purchased him. He accumulated the largest amount for Poloncic when he won the Open, placed second in the Classic, third in the Derby aggregate, first in the second round of the Derby and first in both the Derby and Maturity BBI side-pot incentives.

Polonic finished one-two in the Classic with Aint Seen Me Yet and Digger, respectively. Aint Seen Me Yet

also earned a first-place check in the first round of the Derby. Typically, Poloncic says “Puff ” is her go-to mount, having more maturity and consistency than Digger. The 2012 mare by Aint Seen Nothin Yet and out of Jumping Sugar by RR Milk Bone Shorts earned $2,025 in Bozeman.

“I wasn’t expecting a ton out of either horse, just because we hadn’t been going a ton,” Poloncic said. “I wanted to go up there and see what they would do, and [the success] really set us up for a good rodeo season. It builds a lot of confidence in me and them. It’s always fun to win, but it’s also fun to see that your horses can hang with horses and riders of that caliber.”

Kailey Sullins is managing editor of Barrel Horse News. Email questions and comments on this article to bhneditorial@ cowboypublishing.com.

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Colorado Classic Futurity Horses Open Futurity added nearly $15,000 in futurity earnings to One First Class Lady’s already stellar resume.

The Colorado Classic was up from 519 total entries across all divisions in 2018 to 814 in 2019, while the event’s payout grew from $103,112 last year to $115,436 this year. The Colorado Classic Stallion Incentive funds raised through stallion nominations and a stallion service auction gives progeny of nominated stallions a variety of ways to win money at the event, while adding a premier futurity to the Colorado barrel racing landscape.

“I’m beyond grateful for all my friends and family who make the actual event a success and work the entire weekend to make things as smooth as possible,” producer Kayla Jones said.

“We have a fantastic group of sponsors and stallion owners who give back to the industry and our sport by being part of the Colorado Classic, and I’m thankful for the contestants who choose my event to highlight their horses. We had an amazing display of talent this weekend, and we’re already looking forward to next year.”

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NOT ONLY DID THE COLORADO CLASSIC, FROM JUNE 13–16 AT THE COLORADO STATE FAIRGROUNDS IN PUEBLO, OFFER RESPITE FROM THE HEAT TO MANY COMPETITORS WHO TRAVELED FROM SOUTHERN STATES, it also awarded lucrative payouts in both the Breeders and Open futurity and maturity divisions.

For Colorado native and Texas transplant Jordon Briggs, winning both the Colorado Classic Stallion Incentive Futurity and Smoke Creek Quarter

Winning the Colorado Classic Stallion Incentive Futurity Average, Jordon Briggs rode One First Class Lady, owned by she and her husband Justin Briggs.

One First Class Lady lived up to her name at the Colorado Classic, but not without a few smart adjustments made by her rider and owner Jordon Briggs.

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Andre Coelho and Papagaio (2015 bay gelding by Tres Seis x Miss Lucky Lucky x Dash Ta Fame) posted a 15.313 to win the Colorado Classic Slot Race.

the course of her futurity year. “She was phenomenal at the [Barrel Futurities of America World Championship] Juvenile in December, then in January and a little in February I struggled—we blew the first barrel everywhere we went. She’s really strong, but she’s also really honest and listens, so I had to adjust to turn her a little before my usual rate point so she’s more comfortable.”

Briggs’ winning strategy in Pueblo revolved around staying solid in the wide-open confines of the large covered arena.

“At Pueblo, my goal was to check her two handed at the first barrel,” Briggs said. “She’s really honest and listens, so she nailed every barrel. I definitely had to check her down and still ran a [15.5], and a 15.4 won the round.”

Kelsey Lutjen set the pace in Round One riding VF Im That Kinda Gal for owner Danny Ray. The 2015 filly by Eddie Stinson and out of the famed Silver Lucky Buck daughter Curiocity Corners—dam of Mary Walker’s world champion Perculatin (“Latte”)—posted a 15.427 from draw No. 73 to earn $1,669 in the Smoke Creek Quarter Horses Open Futurity and $2,581 in the Breeders. Briggs and Lola took fifth

in Round One of the Open and third in the Breeders with a 15.641.

“In the second round, Kelsey came back and ran a [15.6], which after she won the first round I knew she’d be really tough in the average, so my goal was to make another nice, solid run to stay in it,” Briggs said. “My thought process was ‘just follow through.’ She had a little more confidence in the second round and ran a [15.3], so I was really proud of her.”

Lutjen and VF Im That Kinda Gal won fifth in the Breeders and sixth in the Open second goes with their 15.666. Lutjen’s total on two runs of 31.093 earned reserve in the Breeders and Open divisions, while Briggs put up an unbeatable 30.926 to cinch the aggregate in both futurities. Lutjen’s earnings aboard VF Im That Kinda Gal from Pueblo totaled an impressive $11,145. Kassie Mowry and Famous Ladies Man (2015 bay gelding, Dash Ta Fame x Lady Perks x Dash For Perks) rounded out the top three in the Breeders Futurity aggregate and fourth in the Open Futurity, with a 31.182.

Andre Coelho rode Papagaio (2015 bay gelding, Tres Seis x Miss Lucky Lucky x Dash Ta Fame) to a 15.313 for the win in the second round of the Smoke Creek Quarter Horses Open Futurity for $1,669, plus another $1,351 for third in the aggregate. The fast time also earned the Colorado Classic Slot Race win and another $2,048 for owners and race sponsors Bill and Cheryl Kennedy of Smoke Creek Quarter Horses.

Plans for Briggs and Lola for the remainder of futurity season revolve largely around the big money available at the Pink Buckle Futurity. Her tentative plans include a trip to Utah for the Glen Wood Memorial, then the Ardmore Futurity in September before the Pink Buckle in October.

“She’s won about $50,000 in EquiStat earnings now,” estimated Briggs, who purchased Lola from fellow futurity trainer Jolene Montgomery in the spring of 2018. “She won the Consolation

Futurity at the Kinder Cup—she’s just gritty, really strong and honest. Jo bought her from the Busbys as a yearling. She priced her to me, and we went over and tried her. I was six and a half months pregnant at the time so I asked if she was gentle enough for me to try, which she was, and we rode her and bought her.”

Briggs’ husband Justin, a talented horse trainer in his own right, rode Lola through the duration of that spring and summer until the birth of their daughter Bexley in July 2018.

“After I got back on her that summer I had a hard time meshing her style with mine, so in August I switched her to the left and that’s when things really clicked,” Briggs said. “She is the horse Bexley rides with me. She’s the sweetest, best-minded horse. Justin’s 80-year-old grandma came for a visit and rode her after not riding for 10 years. She’s a really nice mare.”

Briggs thanked Kayla Jones and her crew for producing the Colorado Classic, as well as all the stallion owners involved.

“It’s an inexpensive futurity to enter, and I came home with about $15,000, so I really appreciate Kayla, Future Fortunes, the sponsors and the stallion owners for participating in another incentive,” said Briggs, who is sponsored

by Horse Hair Analysis, Classic Equine, Shiloh Saddles, Rodeo Rigs, Rock&Roll Cowgirl and PHT Products. “It’s also a really neat, unique facility to run at.”

Amateur futurity average winner Sophie Nolen rode Dats A Guy Streakin (2014 roan gelding, A Streak Of Fling x Frenchmans Maiden x Dats A Frenchman) to a total on two of 31.971, worth $182. In the Vista Breeders Futurity average, Rob Em Smooth (2015 buckskin stallion, A Smooth Guy x Robin Meade x Dash Ta Fame), ridden by Jordan Kircher, finished on top with a 31.844, worth $516.

For more on the Colorado Classic, visit barrelhorsenews.com. Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@cowboypublishing.com.

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NBHA Arizona State Championships NBHA Arizona State Championships were on the line April 27– 28 at the Jackpot Ranch Arena in Camp Verde, Arizona.

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THE ARIZONA Dimmick. Additional awards included 14.853 on Frosty Peppy Playboy, who NATIONAL 15 NBHA World Championship Show received a saddle pad. On Sunday, fast BARREL Wild Cards, headstalls, breast collars, time honors went to Erin King on “Bro” HORSE matching reins, five saddle racks, five who received a pair of NBHA-branded ASSOCIATION Equi-Winner patches, nine trophy cups, aluminum trophy stirrups.

HOSTED ITS 13 $200 MVP gift certificates, nine Other major sponsors included STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS trophy spur straps and fly masks and Bishop’s Trailer Sales, The Classified APRIL 27–28 AT THE NEW Farnam products for all riders. Special Horse, Lexi Smith Photography and JACKPOT RANCH ARENA IN prizes were given to riders during the Jackpot Ranch. The two-day event CAMP VERDE, ARIZONA. First-class race days at random and for fast times awarded average prizes in all classes. facilities featured lodging for the riders run in each drag, courtesy of Farnam Saddles were presented to the and beautiful stalls in barns for their and MVP. winners of each division in the horses, in addition to accessibility to NBHA presented the fast-time Open—1D Marcia Fuller on Frosty two lakes and numerous amenities on award each day in the Open, which Peppy Playboy; 2D Hailey Reinhardt the property. The covered arena, great on Saturday went to Marcia Fuller’s on Watch Rio Rock; 3D Kara Ward on weather and wonderful ground conditions made possible by Amy and Skitter of Jackpot Ranch made the event a success.

Marcia Fuller and Frosty Peppy Playboy broke the arena record at Jackpot Ranch with a 14.853 and also won the trophy saddle for topping the Open 1D average.

Nearly $13,000 plus another $12,000 in awards were distributed during the course of the weekend.

An impressive prize package consisting of five trophy saddles and 16 trophy buckles was made possible by sponsors including MVP, Equi-Winner, RevitaVet and Farnam products from Rhonda NBHA Arizona members gathered under the Jackpot Ranch gazebo to receive their awards.

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Marcia Fuller and Frosty Peppy Playboy were awarded a trophy saddle pad for running Saturday’s fast time.

Marcia Fuller and Frosty Peppy Playboy won the Open 1D trophy saddle, breast collar and headstall for a total on two runs of 30.205.

Erin King won trophy stirrups after posting the fastest time on Sunday.

Open 2D average winner Hailey Reinhardt and Watch Rio Rock were awarded a saddle, breast collar and headstall for their total on two runs of 31.292.

Open 5D average champion Marge Freeland rode My Girl Mia to an average of 34.501 to win a saddle, breast collar and headstall.

Kara Ward rode Laughing Hancock to the 3D average with a 32.332. Ward won a saddle, breast collar and headstall.

Kaleb McTygue and Big Shine Image posted a total of 33.571 on two runs to win the Open 4D average and a saddle, breast collar and headstall.

Laughing Hancock; 4D Kaleb McTygue on Big Shine Image; 5D Marge Freeland on My Girl Mia. Pee Wee winners were presented buckles and buckets—first place Anabella Stallone on Lenas Hardly Smokin; second place Scottland Reinhardt on “Cocoa;” third place Brooklyn Bates on “Red.” NBHA Arizona also kicked off their NBHA trailer giveaway for the season, which is set to culminate in April of 2020 at the state finals. NBHA

members must compete in 10 shows in order to qualify to run for the trailer giveaway in April 2020.

NBHA Arizona State Director Jan Finney expressed special thanks to the hard-working arena crew, headed by Sue Kinley.

“Sue kept everyone rolling in and out five at a time for three days while keeping track of her barrel setters and hat retrievers,” Finney said. “Also, much appreciation to our photographer Lexi Smith and her husband for doing a

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NBHA Arizona Senior average winners and placers—1D Sue Van Galder/Hay Driften Tiger/31.393; Leisa Brug/Billy/31.686; Sue McDonald/Traffic Gypsy/31.736; 2D Miki Martin/Big Heart Of Fire/32.782; Becky Rus/Heza Star Performer/32.865; Debbie Bowsher/Jo’s Pistol Dun It/33.061; 3D Marge Freeland/My Girl Mia/34.501; 4D Becky Rus/Quick Moon Fly/36.189; and April Jensen/Me Dunnit Pass You/40.818.

NBHA Arizona Youth 1D average winner Hailey Reinhardt rode Watch Rio Rock to a 31.292 to win an NBHA buckle and buckle holder. Second place Mary Burke (left) rode “Calber” to a 32.022 to win a breast collar and headstall.

Youth 3D winners Kaleb McTygue and Isabele Lombardi.

Youth 2D winner Hailey Reinhardt and placers 2) Riley Trielbel, 3) Brooklyn Stallone and 4) Peyton Calmes.

fabulous job. Riders can find all the photos on facebook.com/LexiSmithMedia and LexiSmithMedia.com.”

Finney, who is also the NBHA AZ02 Director, worked into the wee hours of the morning adding late entries and performing secretarial duties.

Announcer Courtney Morris never lost her voice and kept the race moving along for three days. Kate Covey did an awesome job setting up awards

Youth 4D winner Eco Martinson.

Pee Wee winners Anabella Stallone, Scottland Reinhardt and Brooklyn Bates.

at Jackpot Ranch’s Gazebo. Michelle Galindo, Rhonda Dimmick and Kate Covey balanced office tasks of taking entries, recording times and more.

“Thank you so much everyone for all the help in putting on this great event; I could not have done it without you,” Finney said. “Congratulations to all the winners.”

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Get to Know Lucia Rodriguez

Panama teen barrel racer Lucia Rodriguez describes the NBHA Youth World Championships as “so many people united by one passion.”

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IT’S A LONG WAY FROM THE CITY OF DAVID, PANAMA, in Central America to the U.S. cities of Jackson, Mississippi, and Perry, Georgia. But 17-year-old barrel racer Lucia Rafaela Rodriguez has been making the journey to those Southern cities annually since the age of 9 to pursue her love of horses with her fellow National Barrel Horse Association competitors.

Panama has been one of the NBHA’s strongest international divisions for many years, with scores of online videos testifying to the sport’s growing popularity in that region.

Rodriguez came to love horses growing up with an older brother and older sister in the city of San José de David, capital of the province of Chiriquí, with its roughly 145,000 population. She competed in

ballet and other dancing events as well as playing guitar at family gatherings. Her dad, a pulmonary surgeon, competed as a calf roper, but Rodriguez was drawn to barrel racing.

“My parents give me the energy that keeps pushing me forward to pursue my dreams,” Rodriguez said. “I thank God for giving me these two angels who have molded me and keep making my life the best it can be.”

Rodriguez gained experience at international-level competition by coming to the NBHA Youth World Championships in Mississippi; traveling with her mother, father, grandfather and three other youth riders from Panama.

“Even though I was new at it, I just kept trying because it was just something special,” Rodriguez said of barrel racing with riders from across the United States and other countries. “Everything about it is what I loved so much, with so many people united by one passion.”

She especially credits Bob Hess of Indiana.

“He helped me come back to Youth World and have some fun rides that kept me inspired to keep coming back,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez returned to the United States annually to compete in both the NBHA Youth and Open World Championships.

Her understanding of the English language continued to improve with her riding skills.

“If you are going to places in life outside of your country like Youth World, you need to know the language of where you are going,” Rodriguez advised.

She began learning English in the first grade at her school and improved her conversational level at a language academy.

Her initial competition rides at Youth World were on borrowed horses through connections she made online and at shows.

She earned a finalist belt buckle last year riding Omega Doc Leo. About three years ago, her family bought Georgia-raised mare NNN Deep Fame, by Deep Sixum and out of Fame Ta Fame by Dash Ta Fame. The two competed at the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Youth World shows.

She is grateful to her friend Kait Bishop as well.

“She takes care of ‘DD’ and makes me feel like I’m home,” Rodriguez said. “She and her family keep my dreams going.”

Rodriguez’s ties to Georgia and her horse will become even stronger this fall when she begins classes at Kennesaw State University north of Atlanta. She plans one day to be involved with industrial engineering.

“Everyone I’ve met at Youth World has been very kind and friendly to help you with whatever you need and to know about your riding,” Rodriguez said.

“Everyone comes together in their love of this amazing sport. Barrel racing is something I have grown up doing, and it has molded me—not only as an athlete—but as a person. Barrel racing and horses are part of who I am and will always be.”

Email comments on this article to bhneditorial@cowboypublishing.com.

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Drill of the Month

Square Stopping

Tighten up your horse’s loose strides with this drill from Janet Staton.

BY JANET STATON WITH ABIGAIL BOATWRIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS BY ABIGAIL BOATWRIGHT

W WHEN I’VE GOT A HORSE THAT TENDS TO GET UNCOLLECTED AND WHAT I CALL “NOODLE-Y” AROUND THE BARRELS, THIS IS THE EXERCISE I GO TO. It teaches the horse to get on its hind end, encouraging it to push off with its rear and keep its collection. For horses whose legs can get out from under them when the footing isn’t ideal, it will help teach them how to handle the ground better.

Why It’s Important

I think it’s really important for barrel horses, especially if they are going to go on to be rodeo horses, to learn how to handle all types of ground. If they don’t keep their legs underneath them and use their rears around the barrel, it’s going to be more difficult for them to work well on different ground conditions.

The Setup

I do this exercise using the equipment with which I regularly ride my horse, nothing special. I usually prefer working on a full barrel pattern, but it can be done with just one barrel. However, I think a lot of horses can lope a pretty circle with one barrel, but when you add speed and a pattern, that’s when they lose their collection. I do this exercise at the trot, on the pattern.

Make sure your horse is responsive and has a good headset on it, because you’ll be asking it to stop and pick its ribs up. You’ll need to have done that homework to do this drill successfully.

You also want to make sure the horse is respectful of the bit and can move its front end around while the hind end stays still.

Left: Trot toward the barrel, then stop when you’re about three feet away. Stand for a minute.

Above: Trot on to the next point, and ask your horse to stop.

When To Do It

I don’t do this exercise with all my horses, because some horses don’t need to be stopped around the barrels. But for horses that need to learn how to collect themselves and stay collected around the barrels, this is really good. When I feel a horse scrambling around the barrel, or I see a leg that’s not underneath the horse like it should be, that’s when I do this drill.

If a horse wants to leave the barrel a little early and doesn’t want to stay in the turn, this is also a good drill. I use it to keep them driving with their back end and avoid coming out of the turns too soon.

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I do this exercise about once a week, and I’ll usually tune a horse with it right before I’m going to run in my warm-up, especially if I am somewhere with the barrels set up.

The Exercise

Do this exercise at the trot. You will be making a four-point square around the barrel. Start by trotting to the first barrel, on the path you would run the pattern. When you get about three feet away from the barrel, stop your horse, making sure it stays in alignment—its

head and rear end need to stay straight.

Don’t tip the nose to the inside with this drill, keep everything straight. I do this with horses that don’t normally have a lot of natural rate, and this helps them find that point.

After stopping, I will let the horse sit for a minute, then I’ll ask it to trot out of that past the barrel. When my leg gets even with the barrel, keeping the horse straight with my hands and legs, I will ask it to stop again. Using outside leg and hand pressure, I will ask the horse to make a counter-arc, with its

Left to right, top to bottom: Keeping your horse’s body aligned, ask your horse to move its front end over in a slight counter-arc, keeping its hind end in place. Trot on to the next point.

Stop at the third point, then ask your horse to turn again.

Trot to the last point and stop your horse.

Trot off to the next barrel. You’ll want to do this drill only a couple times in a session—don’t overdo it.

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Drill of the Month hind end in one position while moving the front end over.

Once it’s moved over and is on the backside of the barrel, I will ask it to stop again to make the horse collect itself. I’ll ask it to turn with the same counter-arc again and finish the turn with a final stop when it’s almost past the barrel. We’ll then head to the next barrel at a trot, or if you just have one barrel set up, then I’d go pick up a lope and ride a few circles before coming back and doing the drill again.

Meet the Expert Janet staton of Bastrop, texas, has been training part-time for most of her life, while keeping her day job as a schoolteacher. she’s been training full-time for four years. staton won the 2018 Fort smith Futurity, the 2018 Diamonds and Dirt Futurity and slot Race and 2018 Fizz Bomb Futurity and slot Race. she trained and jockeyed Js Milo And stitch to become the winningest futurity horse to date. she has also won the West of the Pecos rodeo, the oldest rodeo in North America.

Cautions

I only do this exercise a couple times, and then I’ll move on to something else.

It’s not something to keep drilling in their brain. I just want them to be aware that they need to keep their body collected.

If your horse is not used to stopping at the barrel, it could make them a little anxious. That’s another reason to take it

slow, let the horse relax and don’t get in a hurry. Don’t rush things.

You don’t want the horse hesitating at the barrels. We always want forward motion. That’s why I don’t do this with all of my horses, only the ones that have

had a problem. You just want to remind them to keep their legs underneath them.

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Youth Forum MEMOS FROM MARTHA

The First 30 Days

BY MARTHA JOSEY AND ALISSA BURSON-KELLY JOSEY RANCH

The first 30 days on the pattern lay the foundation for a horse’s futurity year as well as its entire barrel racing career.

THE FIRST MONTH ON THE BARREL PATTERN LAYS THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH A BARREL HORSE’S CAREER IS BUILT. Prior to starting a horse on barrels, there are several important things a horse must be able to do. A horse should move away from inside rein and leg pressure, roll back over its hocks, catch correct leads, flex, bend in the rib cage and travel collected.

If a horse struggles with any one of these things, be sure to spend more time perfecting these exercises prior to starting your horse on the pattern.

Days 1-10

The first two to three days I may only set up one barrel. This is actually how I trained my first horse. I will teach my horse how to lope big, perfect

circles around this barrel. I do this both directions. Once the horse is comfortable doing this, I will tighten my circle up gradually, lope a few smaller circles and move back out to a larger circle. Some horses may want to break back down to a trot, but the goal is to keep forward motion in your horse. When you can do the one-barrel drill with ease both directions, you are now ready to set all three barrels up and begin to teach the pattern.

The next five days I will start to trot through, making sure to give my horse enough room around each barrel. This is the critical time to teach your horse how to keep his shoulder picked up in the turns and to keep adequate space for himself going into the barrels. Now that the horse is starting to get used to the pattern, you can begin to teach your horse how to collect and get ready to turn with transitions. Start by trotting to the first barrel and then transition down to a walk around the barrel. As you leave the first barrel you will pick up the trot again going to the second, transitioning back down to a walk as you go around the second. You will repeat this pattern for the third barrel as well.

Always be sure you are overturning your barrels, especially the first. This will set your horse up to catch the correct leads when you begin to lope through the pattern. As you finish out your first 10 days on the pattern, your horse should know where to collect for

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the turn and where to push off to head to the next barrel. Always be sure to sit down before you get to the barrel, while keeping forward motion and not starting your turn until after your leg is even with the barrel. If your horse is doing all of this well, then you are ready to move to the next step.

Days 11-20

You will continue to work on transitions, as you begin to lope to the barrel and then trot around it. This is where you begin to work on picking up the correct leads. The first two days may be difficult for your horse to get the correct leads, so don’t get frustrated.

Just be patient and continue to ask until your horse does it correctly. By the third day, your horse should be catching the correct leads. Remember, overturning the first will give your horse the positioning needed to pick up the correct lead. When Day 15 approaches, you can test your horse by loping through the entire pattern. It is OK if the horse still wants to break down to a trot around the barrels—it can take them a day or two to get comfortable loping all the way around. Start each day with transitions, and then give your horse the opportunity to lope all the way through at the end. If a mistake is made, finish the pattern and then go back and make the corrections needed at a slower speed. At Day 20 on the pattern, you should be able to lope a nice smooth pattern and catch correct leads.

Days 21-30

The last 10 days of this will be spent reinforcing what you have taught your horse. If you have a horse that is really free and wants to speed up, you will need to start stopping at your rate

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Youth Forum BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MCKENZIE MORGAN

Meet McKenzie Morgan

Running Against the Wind

Appreciate your horses every time you run down the alley, because you never know when they truly don’t feel good and are trying their hearts out anyway.

COURTESY MCKENZIE MORGAN

second in the first round, won the second round by three-tenths and broke the arena record, and we got fifth in the short round. It was an amazing week up until after the short round. About three or four hours after our run, H2 looked very uncomfortable so we rushed to the vet once again. They thought he was just a little dehydrated, so they ran a few bags of fluids through him—turns out he had a kidney infection. With medication and a few weeks off, H2 will be fine and back to running.

This is a prime example of how much heart our horses have. H2 went in there and gave me his all, with no one knowing he wasn’t at the top of his JAMES PHIFER/RODEOBUM.COM

THROUGHOUT THE PAST FEW MONTHS, I’ve discussed a lot about all the hours we put in and how a person needs to have

By McKenzie the heart for barrel Morgan, 16 racing. However, I haven’t talked much about how much heart and try our horses have.

I’m going to use some recent events as an example. We got my main horse, “H2,” back running again after having a few months off before a busy summer.

We headed out to Fletcher, North Carolina, for a big No Bull Productions barrel race. I hit a barrel to put threetenths on the field and win the second round. As discouraging as it was, it was nothing compared to what happened after we ran. H2 showed signs of colic about four hours after the race. We rushed him to the vet right away, and he ended up being completely fine. He was happy and healthy all day before and after he ran up until this moment, which threw everyone off guard.

He got about two weeks off before we headed out to Jackson, Mississippi, for our favorite barrel race of the year, the All American Youth. We placed

Your horse tries as hard as he can every time he makes a run, so it’s only fair to appreciate his effort every time, whether you win or lose.

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game. He had even been to the vet prior to this happening.

We really take these guys for granted sometimes and forget how much love they have for not only us but also the sport of barrel racing. I felt horrible for running him once I found out he had a kidney infection all along, but it once again showed me how blessed I am with an amazing horse.

Horses put just as much work in as we do, and we don’t understand how blessed we are for that. A horse wasn’t created to go around a barrel—they do it because it’s what we love and because we ask them to do it. Don’t ever take your horses for granted, because if it weren’t for them we wouldn’t have half the things we do. Appreciate your horses every single time you run down the alley, no matter the results, because you never know when they truly don’t feel good and are trying their hearts out anyway.

YOUTH PERSPECTIVE COURTESY REGAN DAVIS

Listen to Your Horse

By Regan Davis, 16

I OFTEN WONDER WHAT TRANSPIRES WITHIN THE INCREDIBLE MIND OF THE HORSE. The mind is a truly fascinating tool consisting of memories and thoughts, the past and the hopeful result of the future. There is a combination of dreadful but also delightful memories. When working with animals, I strive to understand the complexity behind their minds. Without the typical communication technique of

speaking, communication with these animals becomes a bit more complicated.

I look in their eyes and try to understand, “What is going through your mind? I wish you could speak…I wish I knew what to do to help.” A dear friend of mine reminded me of that very power we have when I was so desperate to understand. “Take a deep breath, close your eyes and just listen.”

As equestrians, it is our job to strive to understand. Even though horses do not physically speak, we can always listen for what they are trying to say. It is our job to try to decode

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the mystery of the past that is so foreign to us but so vivid to them. By understanding a horse’s past, we have the ability to understand them just a touch more. As these animals’ partners, we must always try to give them the best, just as they aim to do for us. A partnership is not a partnership without mutual respect and dedication. Neither of those necessary components seems possible without gaining an appropriate method of communication.

A horse’s history can be a huge mystery. None of my horses are homebred—I have not owned them since birth nor had the opportunity to watch them grow up.

I often ponder about their past. sometimes I wish I was able to watch them grow up so I could know and understand their past. I observe the miscellaneous scars across their skin and wonder, what is the story? All of those mysterious scars contain a story, and maybe a story that helps reveal the behavior we were questioning. there is a reason for everything, and when working with animals that concept is crucial. A horse does not simply have ear issues because they feel like it. A horse does not fear the trailer for no reason. A horse does not refuse the gate for no reason. A horse does not spontaneously act in an abnormal way for no reason. It is our job to take a minute and listen. sometimes that entails reading a few chapters of the past to decode the mystery of the horse’s history to provide understanding for what seems unclear.

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points and stand quiet for a few moments. I will incorporate double-wrapping the barrels at a trot into my routine now also. If a horse becomes overly nervous during the training process at any time, you need to slow back down. The goal is to keep a horse nice and relaxed as you lay the foundation for their future. Keep your training limited to only four or five times through the barrels each day, and always finish your training session by walking the pattern. You can never walk the pattern too much.

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Barrel Racing Across The U.S.

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Boyd’s Winnin’ Trip May 25–27, Billings, Montana

Saturday Open 1D: 1) Karen Boyd/Wranglers Trip/14.198/$581.88; 2) Cally Goyins/JL Rocthespaniard/14.227/$436.41; 3) Heather Crowley/Coronas Slick Chick/14.357/$363.68; 2D: 1) Kayla Synan/Dox Beta B Sweet/14.742/$498.76; 2) Keira Simonson/VF Bright N Famous/14.756/$374.07; 3) Hadli Anderson/ Victor/14.768/$311.72; 3D: 1) Carrie Smith/Leos Prophecy/15.219/$332.51; 2) Megan Welles/Sancho/15.221/$249.38; 3) Kay Lynn Allen/Monty/15.230/$207.82; 4D: 1) Michael Johnson/Indy/16.236/$249.38; 2) Cindy Mankin/Fancy Fire/16.240/$187.03; 3) Kaydence Bartlett/Shieks Mondey Penney/16.245/$155.86.

Sunday Open 1D: 1) Karen Boyd/Wranglers Trip/14.208/$566.97; 2) Keira Simonson/VF Bright N Famous/14.327/$425.22; 3) Isabell Heiken/ Booming To The Jazz/14.377/$354.35; 2D: 1) Wendy Greenough/RR Golden Dew/14.714/$485.97; 2) Danielle Wright/Passngosmoothly/14.715/$364.78; 3) Lana Tibbetts/Allota Cut Throat/14.746/$303.73; 3D: 1) Katie Kading/BRI Hairpin Flick/15.213/$323.98; 2) Micki Sorge/HC Christys Salano/15.218/$242.99; 3) Ronni Chaffee/Notta Angel/15.233/$202.49; 4D: 1) Tisha Larsen/JL Red Cupid/16.253/$242.99; 2) Pokey Schindler/Bugn Mr Jess/16.301/$182.24; 3) Kerry Karen Boyd and Wranglers Trip.

Pride/First Class Ms/16.312/$151.87. Monday Open 1D: 1) Karen Boyd/Wranglers Trip/14.096/$771.90; 2) Tisha Larsen/JL Indigo/14.369/$593.77; 3) Keira Simonson/VF Bright N Famous/14.380/$445.33; 2D: 1) Mikell Hougen/My Wicked Ways/14.631/$661.63; 2) Jessee Marreel/Winnett Bee/14.637/$508.94; 3) Cally Goyins/Dash Ta Frisco/14.648/$381.71; 3D: 1) Sierra Zowada/Sir San Badger/15.101/$441.08; 2) Anna Getten/Stuff Of Peppy San/15.106/$339.30; 3) Jennifer Jorgensen/Donk Express/15.110/$254.47; 4D: 1) Paige Flom/Tango For The Cash/16.143/$330.81; 2) Casey Wagner/Bruno/16.145/$254.47; 3) Ashley Flammond/Cool Katie Frenchie/16.155/$190.85.

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Friday Open 1D: 1) Sarah Christensen/Holy Oak/14.638/$756; 2) Kristen Meyer/My Famous Treasure/14.694/$648; 3) Olivia Stephes/Flash Of Scotch/14.725/$540; 2D: 1) Sherrie Ring/AB Lucky Bart/15.142/$648; 2) Ellie Johanson/LB Boon/15.144/$509; 3) Stacy Nelson/TS Silent Bid/15.144/$509; 3D: 1) Kathy Kaping/Bringin Sixy Back/15.639/$432; 2) Derek Diedrich/Hot Playgun/15.656/$370; 3) Heidi Gunderson/Sly Smokin Gun/15.662/$308; 4D: 1) Dylan Campbell/Fly Whitegirl/16.156/$324; 2) Tonya Williams/ Momas Lil Wagon/16.189/$278; 3) Abby Lee/Jenns Golden Legacy/16.194/$231. Saturday Open 1D: 1) Sarah Christensen/ Holy Oak/14.542/$1,068; 2) Patti Hovland/Heza Nick Bar Legend/14.615/$843; 3) Cassidy Kohlnhofer/Highlight Express/14.651/$675; 2D: 1) Angie Gardner/Western Sarah Christensen and Holy Oak. Painted Kilo/15.049/$916; 2) Mckenzie Alders/Tiny Luckys Scooter/15.059/$723; 3) Beau Brinkman/El Special Corona/15.066/$578; 3D: 1) Tara Sauber/Firewater Approved/15.559/$611; 2) Wendy Brandt/Easters Streakin Glo/15.570/$482; 3) Ashley Dolphin/KT Fabulous Graffiti/15.578/$386; 4D: 1) Monica Jenson/KS Perks Of A Lady/16.063/$458; 2) Haley Affolter/Teasin Jetolena/16.087/$361; 3) Lisa Rakstad/Shez Smoke/16.095/$289. Sunday Open 1D: 1) Kricket Gintner/Dial A Little Fame/14.337/$1,002; 2) Jenny Born/Hot Lil Scooter/14.433/$859; 3) Molly Otto/Sixappeal/14.486/$716; 2D: 1) Ally Zehrer/Flash The Crowd/14.837/$859; 2) Cassidy Kohlnhofer/Highlight Express/14.843/$736; 3) Olivia Stephes/Flash Of Scotch/14.852/$613; 3D: 1) Carrie Arntson/Perks Fame Aint Easy/15.340/$573; 2) Abby Spaulding/Red Bull Special/15.347/$491; 3) Delaina Sievers/A Smashing Good Time/15.350/$409; 4D: 1) Dylan Campbell/Fly Whitegirl/15.845/$429; 2) Stacy Schultz/Fiddle Around Luck/15.854/$368; 3) Morgan Reed/Zans Jagged Diamond/15.870/$307.

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Futurity Roundup

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Heidi’s Famous For The Win May 31–June 2, Winona, Minnesota

Futurity Average 1D: 1) RC Black In Famous/ Heidi Gunderson/29.42/$779; 2) Diggin Fur Gold/ Molly Otto/30.311/$645; 3) Sly Smokin Gun/Heidi Gunderson/30.317/$510; 4) So Flittin Hot/Hilary Van Gerpen/30.408/$376. Futurity Average 2D: 1) Hot Playgun/ Derek Diedrich/31.427/$519; 2) Classic Wagon/Jessica Meyers/31.509/$430; 3) PR Dirty Girl/Darin Meyers/31.622/$340; 4) Streakintinymerridoc/Molly Otto/31.691/$251. Futurity First Go 1D: 1) RC Black In Famous/Heidi Gunderson/14.919/$584; 2) Diggin Fur Gold/Molly Otto/15.069/$483; 3) Aint Seen Famous Yet/Amelia McCumber/15.132/$383; 4) Frenchinfamous/ Carina Morris/15.293/$282. Futurity 1st Go 2D: 1) Inclined To Dash/Matthew Feehan/15.921/$389; 2) Chasin Perks/ Donna Kalish/16.007/$322; 3) SCF Lakewood Fame/Colleen Heidi Gunderson and RC Black In Famous.

Vondra/16.029/$255; 4) Lifes Lil Perks/Kelsy Miller/16.034/$188.

Futurity Second Go 1D: 1) RC Black In Famous/Heidi Gunderson/14.501/$584; 2) RC PYC Back In Bay/Molly Otto/14.886/$483; 3) A Dash Of Ivory/Amy Chesmore/14.943/$383; 4) Sly Smokin Gun/Heidi Gunderson/14.979/$282. Futurity 2nd Go 2D: 1) Graves Red Bully/Shawn Varpness/15.539/$389; 2) Hot Playgun/Derek Diedrich/15.587/$322; 3) KS Perks Of A Lady/Monica Jenson/15.647/$255; 4) Classic Wagon/ Jessica Meyers/15.652/$188. Breeders Futurity Average 1D: 1) RC Black In Famous/Heidi Gunderson/29.42/$734; 2) Diggin Fur Gold/ Molly Otto/30.311/$551; 3) Sly Smokin Gun/Heidi Gunderson/30.317/$367; 4) So Flittin Hot/Hilary Van Gerpen/30.408/$184. Breeders Futurity Average 2D: 1) Hot Playgun/Derek Diedrich/31.427/$490; 2) Classic Wagon/Jessica Meyers/31.509/$367; 3) PR Dirty Girl/Darin Meyers/31.622/$245; 4) Streakintinymerridoc/Molly Otto/31.691/$122.

Wright On The Money!

June 14–16, Ogden, Utah

Futurity Average 1D: 1) BCK Spyder Monkey/Kallie Wright/27.636/$1,394; 2) MJ Fly Bye Lane/Timi Lickley/27.757/$1,140; 3) RGR Bellaire/Terri Wood Gates/27.913/$845; 4) Guys Driftin Pie/Jamie Noyes/27.928/$549; 5) Shes Packin Dynamite/ Margaret Jones/27.937/$296. Futurity Average 2D: 1) SK Streakin Ta Fame/Stephen Quinn/29.780/$1,061; 2) San Peppys Roan/Katie Larsen/29.805/$868; 3) Hercules Got Guns/Heather Clegg/30.287/$643; 4) SK Double Dose Ta Fame/Kimberli Quinn/ 30.585/$418; 5) AO Bye Bye Lola/Jessica Lear/30.785/$225. Futurity First Go 1D: 1) BCK Spyder Monkey/Kallie Wright/13.817/$1,045; 2) MJ Fly Bye Lane/Timi Lickley/13.873/$855; 3) LX Famous

By Design/Vauna Walker/13.934/$634; 4) RGR Bellaire/ Terri Wood Gates/13.978/$412; 5) SG Funny Money/Shana Gibson/14.023/$222; Futurity First Go 2D: 1) SK Double Dose Ta Fame/Kimberli Quinn/14.931/$796; 2) JR Heart Of An Angel/Jill Atkinson/14.935/$651; 3) San Peppys Roan/Katie Larsen/15.081/$482; 4) AO Bye Bye Lola/Jessica Lear/15.115/$314: Kallie Wright and BCK Spyder Monkey.

5) Hercules Got Guns/Heather Clegg/15.359/$169. Futurity Second Go 1D: 1) RV Merri Goodbye/Vauna Walker/13.744/$1,045; 2) Favorite Version/Kelli Thouvenell/13.786/$855; 3) BCK Spyder Monkey/Kallie Wright/13.819/$634; 4) Shes Packin Dynamite/ Margaret Jones/13.844/$412; 5) Guys Driftin Pie/Jamie Noyes/13.877/$222; Futurity Second Go 2D: 1) Chasin Sweet Annie/Desirae Wheeler/14.756/$796; 2) SD Chocolate Sydney/Desirae Wheeler/14.767/$651; 3) VM A Lady With Perks/Carleen Trapp/14.789/$482; 4) Silver N Dough/Darcee Sheperd/14.857/$314; 5) Hercules Got Guns/Heather Clegg/14.928/$169.

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Calendar 2019 Barrel Futurities Aug 16-18 MCCOOK, NE Triangle Cross Classic. $6,000 added Open Futurity w/$5,000 FF, $1,500 Triple Crown to Futurity; and $1,500 Triple Crown to Open; $1,000 2D Incentive Sidepot; $750 added Derby; $2,000 Super Stakes Slot Race; $1,500 Open 4D; Youth; Poles. FMI: trianglecross.com.

Aug 16-18 SALINA, UT Southwest Desert Classic Open Futurity/Breeders Incentive Futurity. $6,000 added to each. FMI: Vickie Solmonsen 801-910-3504 and swdclassic.com.

Aug 23-25 SALINA, UT GlenWoodMemorial. $40,000 added 2D Futurity; $7,000 added 2D Maturity.

FMI: Terri Wood Gates 801-598-6198; Vickie Solmonsen 801-910-3504; glenwoodmemorial18@gmail.com and glenwoodmemorialfuturity.com.

Aug 30-Sept 1 BROKEN BOW, NE Cornhusker Futurity. $22,750 added. $12,000 Breeders Futurity; $3,000 Breeders Derby/Maturity; $4,000 Open Futurity; $5,000 FF Bonus Money; $1,000 Open Derby Maturity; $500 Amateur Div; $750 per day Open 4D. FMI: 308-8705540; info@cornhuskerfuturity.com; cornhuskerfuturity.com.

Sept 5-8 GILLETTE, WY Fizz Bomb Barrel Race Classic. $64,500 added Money and Incentives. Futurity/ Derby; Open 4D; Wendy Larsen Senior Race; $5,000 TC100; $10,000 FF; $5,000 PESI; $20,000 Cowboy State Stallion Incentive. FMI: 307-660-8466 or tharranchproductions@gmail.com.

Sept 6-8 EDINBURGH, IN 45th Annual Indiana Barrel Racing Futurity. $10,000 added BFA 2D Futurity; $1,500 added Friday Open 4D; $3,000 added Saturday Open 4D; $1,000 added Sunday Open 4D; $1,000 added BFA 2D Derby; $500 added Saturday Youth; $250 added (ea) Saturday Adult and Masters. $10,000 FF bonus to Sat. Open; $3,000 KISS bonus; $5,000 WHRAI Certified Indiana Bred bonus. FMI: Stef Duke 765-667-4366; indianabarrelracingfuturity.com; and Facebook.

Sept 12-13 BELLE FOURCHE, SD Roper Rally Futurity. $5,000 added Futurity; $1,000 added Maturity-Derby; $1,000 added (ea. day) Open 5D; $500 WPRA PESI Open Bonus ea. day; $1,500 TC100 Open bonus. FMI: Zeann Golliher 605-641-2926; zgolliher@hotmail.com; zproductions.biz.

Sept 25-29 ARDMORE, OK The Ardmore Barrel Futurity. $50,500 added money - $20,000 Jud Little Ranch Futurity; $17,500 Open 5D; $5,000 Derby; $3,000 BBR Members Only Sidepot; $5,000 Select Stallion Stakes Bonus Money. FMI: Ross Wright 405364-0274; ross@ardmorebarrelfuturity. com.

Oct 9-12 GUTHRIE, OK The Pink Buckle Futurity & Open 4D. $1.5 million guaranteed payout. $650,000 Futurity (4 or 5 yo); $200,000 2D Futurity; $6,000 Open 4D; $50,000 Amateur Futurity; $20,000 Youth Incentive (14 & under). FMI: pinkbuckle. com.

Nov 18-23 GUTHRIE, OK BFA World Championship Juvenile Futurity. $50,000 added. New Futurity Eligibility Date – November 15, 2019.

FMI: bfaworld.com.

Dec 10-15 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK OKC Futurity. $50,000 added Futurity; $30,000 added Rookie Futurity; $15,000 added Derby; $5,000 Youth; $5,000 Sweepstakes; $5,000 Amateur Short Go; $5,000 Coming 5-year-old Futurity Incentive. FMI: Ross Wright 405-2307167; ross@betterbarrelraces.com.

Over $15,000 Added Barrel Races Aug 31-Sep 2 KING CITY, CA West Coast Barrel Racing Association Finals. Over $323,026 paid out in 2018 with $171,435 total added money. FMI: westcoastbarrelracing.com.

Sept 25-29 ARDMORE, OK The Ardmore Barrel Futurity. $50,500 added money - $17,500 Open 5D; $20,000 Jud Little Ranch Futurity; $5,000 Derby; $3,000 BBR Members Only Sidepot; $5,000 Select Stallion Stakes Bonus Money. FMI: Ross Wright 405-364-0274; ross@ ardmorebarrelfuturity.com.

Oct 19-20 SILESIA, MT Montana Barrel Daze. $20,800 added. $5,000 added Open 5D Saturday; $5,000 added Open Sunday; added money Incentives; $3,000 BBR Members Only; $5,000 Select Stallion Stakes. FMI: Lana Tibbetts 406-9512394; lanatibbs@wildblue.net or copperspringranch.com.

Nov 18-23 GUTHRIE, OK 34th Anniversary of the BFA World Championship. $150,000+ total added.

First payment due January 15, 2019.

FMI: Cindy Arnold 918-773-5246 or Cindy@BFAWorld.com.

Listings in the calendar are free of charge and are published as a service to our readers. Barrel Horse News attempts to include all applicable events; however, we cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, completeness or elimination of any event. Calendars are published on a “space available” basis in each issue.

The deadline for listings is the first of the month preceding publication date.

If you would like your event listed, contact editorial assistant Raenelle Pipps at (817) 569-7103 or raenelle.pipps@cowboypublishing.com.

Dec 6-8 MEMPHIS, TN Lucky Dog. Minimum $15,500 added. FMI: Christy Lewis 870-9307717; christy@luckydograces.com; luckydograces.com.

$5,000 to $15,000 Added Barrel Races Aug 2-4 MEMPHIS, TX Lucky Dog. $7,350 added. FMI: Christy Lewis 870-930-7717; christy@ luckydograces.com; luckydograces.com.

Aug 9-11 LIVINGSTON, MT Montana Equine Race To The Finish Line. $15,000 added Open 5D, plus $15,000 in Average Awards. FMI: 406287-3572; odonnellshorses@aol.com; odonnellquarterhorses.com.

Aug 15-18 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK Summer ShootOut. $12,000 added $10,000 Open 4D; $1,000 5 & Under Futurity sidepot; $1,000 BBR Members Only sidepot; FMI: Ross Wright 405364-0274; ross@shootoutbarrels.com; shootoutbarrels.com.

Aug 31-Sept 2 RUSTON, LA Run For The Diamonds. $500 added Open 5D Saturday; $2,500 added Open 5D Sunday; $7,000 added Open 5D Monday; $1,000 added Youth. FMI: Eileen 318-376-0771; Bobby 318-3664800; runforthediamonds.com.

Sept 6-8 EDINBURGH, IN 45th Annual Indiana Barrel Racing Futurity. $10,000 added BFA 2D Futurity; $1,500 added Friday Open 4D; $3,000 added Saturday Open 4D; $1,000 added Sunday Open 4D; $1,000 added BFA 2D Derby; $500 added Saturday Youth; $250 added (ea) Saturday Adult and Masters. $10,000 FF bonus to Sat. Open; $3,000 KISS bonus; $5,000 WHRAI Certified Indiana Bred bonus. FMI: Stef Duke 765-667-4366; indianabarrelracingfuturity.com; and Facebook.

Sept 6-8 TUNICA, MS Lucky Dog. $11,500 added plus $10,000 FF Saturday. FMI: Christy Lewis 870930-7717; christy@luckydograces.com; luckydograces.com.

Sept 13-15 HEBER CITY, UT UBRA $10,000 added Open 5D; $1,000 added 5D Friday; Men’s Race; Youth 3D; $1,000 Cash Target. Xtreme Million Qualifier Sat & Sun. FMI: utbra.com.

Sept 27-29 CLOVERDALE, IN Sharon Camarillo Eastern Barrel Racing Classic. C Bar C Expo Center$5,000 added. Entries limited to Sharon Camarillo Clinic graduates and a friend.

3 go rounds. FMI: Nicki Westerlund; camarilloeasternclassic@gmail.com.

Oct 11-13 TEXARKANA, AR Lucky Dog. $8,250 added. FMI: Christy Lewis 870-930-7717; christy@ luckydograces.com; luckydograces.com

Guaranteed Barrel Races Oct 9-12 GUTHRIE, OK The Pink Buckle Futurity & Open 4D. $1.5 million guaranteed payout. $650,000 Futurity (4 or 5 yo); $200,000 2D Futurity; $6,000 Open 4D; $50,000 Amateur Futurity; $20,000 Youth Incentive (14 & under). FMI: pinkbuckle. com.

Dec 5-15 LAS VEGAS, NV All In Barrel Race. 3 races – Dec 5-7, Dec 9-11, Dec 13-15. Guaranteed $700,000 Payout. Youth Championship; Futurity; Derby; American Qualifier. FMI: lvbarrelrace.com.

Barrel Horse Sales Aug 9 RAPID CITY, SD Fulton Family Performance Horse & Production Sale. NEW DATE/NEW LOCATION. Central States Fairgrounds.

Sale features 45 head of exciting rodeo prospects from A Streak of Fling, CS Flashlight and Dash Ta Streak, as well as broodmares and more. FMI: fultonranch.com.

Aug10 BOZEMAN, MT Copper Spring Ranch Performance Horse Sale. Featuring prospects by Frenchmans Fabulous, Frenchmans Guy, PC Frenchmans Hayday, Firewater Canyon and more. FMI: copperspringranch.com.

Oct 11 GUTHRIE, OK Pink Buckle Barrel Horse Sale. Held in conjunction with The Pink Buckle Barrel Race Futurity & Open 4D. FMI: pinkbuckle.com.

2019 Barrel Clinics Aug 1-4 CHILDRESS, TX Charmayne James. FMI: charmaynejames.com Sept 12-15 Charmayne James. FMI: charmaynejames.com

HURON, SD

Sept 14-15 PENDLETON, SC Saddle Up For Christ Barrel Clinic. T Ed Garrison Arena. FMI: saddleupforchrist@yahoo.com; 918671-2835.

Sept 26 RAPID CITY, SD Hallie Hanssen. In conjunction with 6th Annual Today’s Horse West Fest. FMI: Maegan McPherson wagonpinperformancehorses@gmail. com.

Oct 4-6 HATTIESBURG, MS Team Josey 2 ½ day BR clinic. FMI: barrelracers.com Oct 5-6 FOMBELL, PA Pete Oen. FMI: Sarah 724-713-8131 Oct 18-20 SAPULPA, OK Team Josey 2 ½ day BR clinic. FMI: barrelracers.com Nov 22-24 KARNACK, TX Josey Ranch. Fall 2 ½ day BR clinic. FMI: barrelracers.com Nov 29-Dec 1 KARNACK, TX Josey Ranch. Thanksgiving 3-day BR clinic. FMI: barrelracers.com

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2005 Palomino Stallion, 16.0 HH Bullys On Fire x Sweet Lumps si 81, First Down Dash Sired by BULLYS ON FIRE, a proven producer of Barrel Money Earners including GREAT BULLS OF FIRE ($30,000) an OFD Derby Finalist. Out of SWEET LUMPS, a race winning & producing daughter of World Champion FIRST DOWN DASH, All-Time Leading Sire of Race Money Earners & a Leading Grandsire of Barrel Horses.

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2007 Palomino Stallion, 15.0 HH Frenchmans Guy x Briscos Dream Gal si 88, Brisco County Jr “Brisco” is a Greg Olson Futurity Finalist with limited hauling. Sired by the All-Time Leading Living Sire of Barrel Horses, FRENCHMANS GUY, with progeny earnings in excess of $12 Million. BriscosFrenchBullion is passing on his Great Mind, Conformation & Athleticism. Oldest foals are 6-Year Olds in 2019 & first runner DASH THRU A STAR is a barrel money earner.

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2003 Chestnut Stallion (Dash Ta Fame x JC Proud Buns, Proudest Effort)

#1 ALL-TIME LEADING FUTURITY STALLION!

JB Proud N Famous is the “real deal”! “John Boy” is a 1D Rodeo Money Earner & Proven Producing Sire of Money Earners over $248,730+ in Futurities, Slot Races, Derbies, Open Jackpots, PRCA Rodeo & Roping! $443,268+!

Sire of RIPS FAMOUS FAME, 2014 multiple Futurity & BBR Slot Race Winner ridden by Janna Beam.

Stud Fee: PRIVATE TREATY Cooled & Frozen Only • 1st Ship Free Foals Eligible for Future Fortunes, Select Stallion Stakes, Triple Crown 100, WPRA PESI Foals by JB Proud N Famous available at the ranch.

J Diamond Ranch • 330 South 100 West, Joseph, UT 84739 (435) 201-2034 • (435) 201-7785 thejdiamondranch@aol.com

CHAMPION: BFA Juvenile World Champion, BFA Future Fortunes Sire Slot, Kinder Cup Slot Race & Futurity, LG Slot Race & Futurity, Cornhusker Breeders & Open, Ardmore Futurity

RESERVE CHAMPION: Texas Extreme Barrel Classic, Panty Raid Futurity By the #5 Leading Sire of 2018, DARKELLY. Out of the #1 Leading Dam of 2018, MISTYS DASH OF FAME, producer of over $1.2 Million in offspring earnings!

2019 Fee: $2,250 Future Fortunes,Select Stallion Stakes & Blue Collar Breeders

Fee: $3,500 Will be paid into incentives as foals come of age.

Owned by Robin Weaver.

Standing at:

Facebook.com/JB-Proud-N-Famous www.JBProudNFamous.com

Salado, TX | (254) 947-1292 | bveh.salado@bveh.com www.bevh.com

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