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IN THIS ISSUE: • Rodeo Rapid City, Rapid City, SD, pg 2 • Ashley Brooks Memorial, Memphis, TN, pg 10 • Classic Equine Futurity, Buckeye, AZ, pg 18 • Equity Frostbite Race, Perry, GA, pg 37 FEBRUARY 9, 2021 // Volume 15: Issue 6 Published Weekly, online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 RODEO RAPID CITY CHAMPIONS Red Man Jones & Randee Prindle — page 2 CLASSIC EQUINE FUTURITY CHAMPIONS Escalating & Taylor HIldreth — page 18 Golden Performance for Randee Prindle & Red Man Jones at Rodeo Rapid City By Tanya Randall Randee Prindle and Red Man Jones (“Scooby”) turned in a jaw- dropping run in the second slack to win the $10,000-added Rodeo RODEO RAPID CITY CHAMPIONS Rapid City, held February 2-4 in Rapid City, South Dakota. The victory was worth $5,433. Red Man Jones & Randee Prindle “It’s nice that we were able to get to go rodeo, that’s for sure!” Jet Deck said Prindle, who hails from Gilman City, Missouri. “The ground Pa Jones SI 100 was perfect. You couldn’t have asked for better ground. It was a re- SI 95 Sugaree Bars ally nice, smoothly run rodeo too.” SI 95 Prindle wasn’t sure she was going to make it to Rapid City Brownie Jones because Scooby came up lame right after the books closed for the Clabber Bar rodeo. Cherry Clabber SI 85 “I went to get him up to take him to the vet to get his Coggins Cathy Adair done and he was three-legged,” she explained. “I prayed it was an abscess and thank goodness it was! My backup horse right now is Red Man Jones a 5-year-old that’s been to maybe eight barrel races in his life. It 2011 Bay Gelding was going to be interesting if I had to pull him out. I thought, well, Dinky Quail maybe I won’t get in because I wasn’t ranked very high in the stand- Dinkys Red Man ings last year. We didn’t find out I got in until after we found out it was an abscess.” Little Red Sandy At Rapid City, Scooby proved he was over his abscess with a Dinkys Purple Rain blistering 11.80, a reported arena record. Royal Charge Jr “We’ve been having some issues, like hitting (the first) leaving it,” Gone Royal SI 87 she said. “I tweaked a couple of things and he went in and worked Gonebreeze great! It was the same turn he usually has on first, took an extra step Rider/Owner: Randee Prindle; Breeder: Jud Little on second, the third, he ate up and went on.” Scooby also had to kick up his heels for everyone to see after his run, too. w/Randee Prindle “He’s a brat!” Prindle laughed. “I think it was when I started to THE RUNDOWN pick up. He was like, ‘I don’t want to slow down!’ He decided he Red Man Jones “Scooby” 15 hands, 1,000 lbs. would throw a little fit!” BIT: Kathy James with twisted mouthpiece His antics weren’t unexpected, she added, especially given the SADDLE: Masters Lightweight warm-up situation. SADDLE PAD: 5-Star “We had to warm up at the fairgrounds and then haul to the LEG GEAR: OrthoEquine fronts only arena,” she explained. “Usually, I have to at least lope a couple of SHOEING: Steel shoes on front only, barefoot behind; currently has plain circles on him to get his little buck out. When he warms up you steel hind shoes due to an abscess right before Rapid City. would think he’s not even broke! He flips his head. We crossfire. We go every direction but the right one. I was very happy that he at FEED: ReNew Gold with a 14% pellet least waited until after the timer before he threw his little fit. HAY: Alfalfa, grass mix; pasture “If there was ever a barrel race that he was going to do some- SUPPLEMENTS: MVP Exceed 6-Way, In Sync-4, GastroPlex, Kahm CBD, thing dumb it probably would have been that one because it was like omeprazole when hauling an hour between our warmup and our run. I’m happy he at least ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES: Magna Wave, Spectra Therapy blanket, PHT magnetic waited, but not at all surprised that he did that!” blanket Scooby is a well-known shyster, or as Prindle put it, “He likes to TRAINING/CONDITIONING: “Honestly, he’s a pasture ornament during the week.” put me through Hell and back!” Prindle had purchased the 10-year- old gelding at the 2015 BBR World Finals Horse Sale. The Jud SPONSORS: OrthoEquine, Cowgirl Tuff, PEMF Complete Sales, Med-Vet Phar- Little-bred gelding, by Brownie Jones out of Dinky’s Purple Rain, maceuticals, Masters Saddles, Spectra Therapy, Van Patten Farms Diesel by Dinkys Red Man, had caught the eye of Prindle’s mom, Kim. Performance, Lawson Equine, Marcotte Vet, Kahm CBD, Lacy Boots, LLC. “She walked past his stall and saw that he had Jet Deck on his (pedigree) card,” Prindle recalled, who sadly lost her mom the day get him. It was a fluke.” after her winning run. “I literally went to the sale to pick out a Success for the pairing wasn’t instant. 2-year-old to start because I knew there was no way I could afford a “I don’t know how we started where we started from and got started horse. I wasn’t even looking at him and she picked him out. to where we are,” said Prindle, who has a BBR World Finals 1D We watched him slow work in the demo and said, ‘OK, we’ll try to Championship and the 2020 American Semifinals Championship get him.’ I passed up the 2-year-old that I wanted so I was able to Rodeo Rapid City Continued on Page 3 Rodeo Rapid City Continued From Page 2 with Scooby. “When I first bought him, I thought at most he’d rodeos. Afterward, she’ll evaluate her plans. be a horse to check cattle on, but he’s scared to death of cattle. It “I figure we’ll see how I sit after I get back from Florida,” she definitely feels like a dream.” said. The win in Rapid has her 21st in the WPRA World Standings. Basically, it’s Scooby’s world and Prindle’s just living in it. “It will kind of depend on if I’m going to go rodeo some or if I’m “He’s definitely a freak,” she chuckled. “I think it’s funny. People just going to go barrel race. Right now, my calendar is booked with at the barrel races are always like, ‘We need you to run this, this and big barrel races every weekend until November. It’s kind of up in this.’ I’m like, ‘You should never ask me anything.’ Whatever Scooby the air. We’ll see how it goes these next couple of weeks and go wants to do, it what we’re going to do. If wants to go out there and from there.” buck the whole pattern, I’m going to pat him on the neck and try It’s a harder decision than one would think. Prindle has some again tomorrow! If he wants to go in there and lay a nice run down, outside horses and will run six to eight head at a jackpot. that’s what he’ll do. There’s definitely no me controlling him. We “I made good money at the big jackpots last year,” she said. “It’s just get along and I’m a passenger right now! hard to jump off that bandwagon and go rodeo. If I go to a jackpot Prindle and Scooby have a few more pro rodeos scheduled be- I can sit there all weekend and take six or eight horses and run. fore they look to defend their American Semifinals Championship. That’s the hard decision I’m going to have to make.” They’re entered in Jackson, Mississippi, and a couple of Florida Rodeo Rapid City // Feb. 4-6, 2021, Rapid City, SD 1 Red Man Jones 11 bay g. Brownie Jones-Dinkys Purple Rain, Dinky’s Red Man Randee Prindle 11.80 $5,433 2 Spotlite Ta Fame 09 b. m. My Stud Leroy-Lite On The Bar, Stripping On The Bar Keyla Polizello Costa 11.91 $4,347 3 KG Justiceweexpected 07 blk. m. Judge Cash-Do It For Beau, Beaus Scoop Of Sun Kathy Grimes 12.05 $3,532 4 Pc Uncle Si 12 gr. g. Pc Frenchman-Eyes Are Blue, Royal Blue Chew Chew Ari-Anna Flynn 12.06 $2,717 5 Fiery Miss West 11 pal. m. Firewater Frenchman-Frenchmans Bo Dashus, Royal Quick Dash Jessica Routier Gary Westergren 12.12 $2,173 6 RR Meradas Real Deal 08 sor. g. Lover Boy Merada-Zan Roan Jax Jo, Zan Gold Jackson Lacinda Rose 12.13 $1,630 7 Freckles Ta Fame 09 sor stud Dash Ta Fame-Frenchmans Freckles, Frenchmans Guy Shali Lord Spitz Quarter Horses 12.17 $1,358 8 Docs Royal Win 06 b. m. Cc Royal Red-Docs Win Te, Fixin To Win Summer Kosel 12.18 $1,087 8 Guys Night In Vegas 08 buck. g. Frenchmans Guy-Sail On Truckles, Up N Truckle Jessi Fish 12.18 $1,087 8 Hittin Fame 12 sor. g. Dash Ta Fame-Dashin For Pay Dirt, Pritzi Dash Jamie Steiner 12.18 $1,087 11 Ashley Day, 12.19, $815; 12 Andrea Busby, 12.20, $679; 13 Austyn Tobey, 12.22, $475; 13 Wendy Hoefer, 12.22, $475; 15 Cindy Baltezore, 12.24, $272 Wolfe Dominates Stanton, TX Race for the Trailer Race For The Horse Trailer // Feb.