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JANUARY 7, 2014 Volume 8: Issue 1 In this issue... • Classic Equine Futurity, pg 6 • Ring In the New Year, pg 17 • TX Circuit Finals, pg 18 • Run for the Roses, pg 22 fast horses, fast news • WRAPN3, pg. 30 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Pete Oen & Gowin Ta Be Famous Clock Big to Win Classic Equine Futurity Slot Race By Tanya Randall Just a year ago, Gowin To Be Famous (“Sadie”) was one of the ASH OR ASH IRS T OWN ASH D F C many horses listed for sale on the flyer boards around Buckeye, F D D SI 114 Ariz. No one was interested in the 3-year-old daughter of Dash Ta SI 105 Fame because she wasn’t yet broke to ride. FIRS T PRIZE ROSE DASH T A FAME SI 98 A few weeks after returning from Arizona, futurity veteran Pete SI 113 Oen got a call from his clients Al and Lynn Cicman of Mount TINY ’S GAY Pleasant, Texas, with the news that they had purchased a 3-year-old SU dd EN FAME SI 106 Dash Ta Fame filly that they had found in Arizona. SI 98 AR EARIE The unbroken filly that no one wanted to mess with was headed B D SI 90 for Oen’s Ardmore, Okla., facility. GOWIN T O BE FAMOUS With barely a year’s worth of riding, just a few months of barrel 2010 SORREL FILLY training, Sadie has ran out nearly $30,000, thanks to an impressive BIG ST AR BOUN D win in the $45,000 Classic Equine Futurity Slot Race and third place BRAE D ENS CHOI C E SI 96 finish in the Futurity, held Jan. 2-4 in Buckeye, Ariz. SI 95 When Oen first got Sadie, who is out of Brianna Choice, by the LAN D ERS FLO JO Easy Jet grandson Braedens Choice out of a Merridoc mare, last BRIANNA CHOI C E February she was barely halter broke. SI 97 MERRI D O C “We had to chase her in the barn,” laughed Oen. “We had to DEAL EM MAMA SI 102 chase her in a stall. It was she either she didn’t want to go or she SI 90 was running over you. There was no in between.” DEAL A G AIN RI D ER : PE T E OENI ; OWNERS : AL & LYNN CI C MAN ; SI 103 After Oen and Kyle Leleux had started breaking Sadie they BREE D ER : T ERRY GOWIN OR DAVI D FEENS T RA decided to send her to Josianne St-Cyr in Weatherford, Texas, to get truly broke. the BFA. She hadn’t been on the pattern 60 days in August.” “We didn’t have time to do the breaking with our travel schedule, When it came to enter the BFA Juvenile, Oen had changed his so we sent her to Josianne for 60 days,” said Oen. “I got her back mind about Sadie and entered her. She even became his No. 2 pick the second week of May right before Fort Smith. I rode her a few for the BFA $uper$takes. days and then left. We basically started on barrels in June.” “I almost named her for my slot horse in Oklahoma City, but she Sadie had just had three weeks on the pattern when she cut her just didn’t have as much time and experience and wasn’t as solid as back leg and got cellulitis. that other filly that I had chosen,” he said. “She placed 11th in the “She spent a full month at the vet clinic,” Oen said. “They average in the Juvenile.” thought they were going to have to put her down at one time be- With a little over $1,800 in earnings already to the mare’s credit, cause the infection had gotten into the tendon sheath. They thought they headed to Arizona for the three Buckeye futurities—the Classic for sure the infection would get into the joint and she would get Equine, Greg Olson Memorial and Pac West. septic and have to be put to sleep.” “The first day in exhibitions she was a little bit wild,” he said. Oen credits Josh Harvey, DVM, at Outlaw Equine in Decatur, “The sun was going down and it was shining kind of odd across Texas, with saving Sadie. At end of July, they started riding her the arena, so I kind of blamed it on that. Kyle and I got her ready again. for the first round and she went out won the round with the fastest “Kyle has ridden her way more than I have, and he’s like this filly time of the futurity, including times from both days and times with is really coming along. I’m like ‘yeah, okay’ because all of those knocked down barrels. She ended up winning the first round by two other colts we’d been riding well before that. The Cicmans came to full tenths and then came back in the second round and didn’t have watch her ride one day and they asked ‘Do you think she can go to quite as good of run. She had a little mistake at the second barrel. the BFA?’ I said there is no way, not a prayer that she was going to Classic Equine Slot Race Continued on Page 4 IN THE NEWS .......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... Other Groups Support AQHA’s Appeal No date has been set for a hearing before the appeals court. By Jim McBride and the Amarillo Globe-News via www.ama- rillo.com BBR Announces New Programs in 2014 Several groups, ranging from the Cat Fanciers’ Association to the Better Barrel Races, a.k.a. BBR, the barrel racing sanctioning American Kennel Club, are urging the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- body for RFD-TV’s The American Rodeo, 2013 Season ended on peals to overturn an Amarillo federal court judgment ordering the Dec 31. The association is now gearing up for their 2014 World American Quarter Horse Association to register cloned horses and Finals, which is the nation’s largest (by attendance) and richest(by their offspring. added money and total cash payout) divisional finals barrel race. In July, an Amarillo federal jury determined an AQHA committee Qualifier Invitations will be going out to members the first of Feb- and top AQHA officials violated state and federal antitrust laws by ruary and with more than 2,000 qualified members this season the conspiring to bar cloned horses from its horse registry. Jurors, how- annual event is likely to be the largest in its 11 years of production. ever, awarded no damages to rancher Jason Abraham and Gregg BBR’s growth this past season was unprecedented. The associa- Veneklasen, two AQHA members who sought to register their tion attributes much of that success to it’s alliance with RFD-TV in cloned horses. hosting to the American Rodeo’s qualification process. As a result In 2012, Abraham and Veneklasen sued the 280,000-member of the growth BBR is launching two new programs in 2014, the organization, seeking to overturn its registration ban on cloned Select Stallion Stakes and the Futurity Riders Guild. BBR is reach- horses. ing out to producers in California, Washington, Montana, Ohio On Aug. 22, U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson issued a final and Florida with the intended purpose of being able to extend not judgment, ordering the association to immediately begin registering only the BBR Regional Challenge tour but to create new alliances clones. The judge later granted the AQHA a temporary stay from where 5 more Qualification races could be established. While at the the judgment while the association appealed its case to the New same time, plans are to marry the current 5 American qualification Orleans court. races to the 5 BBR Regional Challenge Tour Finals in 2014, with On Thursday, the American Kennel Club, the American Morgan preferred producers in Buckeye, AZ, Loveland, CO, Lincoln, NE, Horse Association, the American Paint Horse Association, the Ap- Starkville, MS and Florida. paloosa Horse Club, the Arabian Horse Association, The Cat Fanci- The Select Stallion Stakes is a stallion breeders incentive which ers’ Association Inc., the Jockey Club, the Pinto Horse Association will payout bonus money to enrolled progeny over the course of and the U.S. Trotting Association filed a friend-of-the-court brief the 2014 season. The Select Stallion Stakes will be the first and only supporting the AQHA’s appeal filed Dec. 28. breeders’ incentive program to date paying out incentive money to “Private associations like the AQHA and the Amici Curiae (the all facets of barrel racing industry that is open to everyone. 30% groups) possess a judicially-recognized right to adopt, administer, of the 2014 incentive purse has been ear-tagged for The American. interpret and enforce their own rules without judicial interference,” Half of which will be paid out on The American Rodeo Semi-Fi- the brief states. “Here, by requiring the AQHA to adopt specifical- nals long round in Mesquite February 21 and half going to the long ly-worded amendments to 11 of its rules, the district court imper- round at The American Rodeo itself March 2 in Dallas, TX. The missibly intruded on the AQHA’s rule-making powers in violation remaining 60% will be split 30% to Futurity competiton and 30% of long-standing precedent.” to Jackpot competition at the 2014 BBR World Finals.

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