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IN THIS ISSUE: • Pink Buckle Futurity, Guthrie, OK, pg 2 • Pink Buckle Open, Guthrie, OK, pg 23 • Pink Buckle Barrel Horse Sale, pg 45 • Lucky Dog, Texarkana, AR, pg 52 • Badlands Circuit Finals, pg 59 • Great Lakes Circuit Finals, pg 61 OCTOBER 13, 2020 // Volume 14: Issue 40 • California Circuit Finals, pg 62 Published Weekly, online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 PINK BUCKLE FUTURITY CHAMPIONS KN Snap Back & Caroline Boucher — page 2 PINK BUCKLE OPEN CHAMPIONS Tres Movidas & Hallie Hanssen — page 23 BADLANDS CIRCUIT FINALS — page 59 GREAT LAKES CIRCUIT FINALS — page 61 CALIFORNIA CIRCUIT FINALS — page 62 Photos by Olies Images Félicitations à Toute L’équipe – KN Snap Back Tops Pink Buckle Futurity, Wins $111,732 By Tanya Randall KN Snap Back (“Eddie”), ridden by Caroline Boucher for Julien Veilleux of Saint Alfred, Quebec, Canada, took championship PINK BUCKLE FUTURITY CHAMPIONS honors in the Futurity and placed eighth in the Open 1D to earn KN Snap Back & Caroline Boucher $111,782 at the Pink Buckle, held October 7-11 at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma. First Down Dash “I still can’t believe this has happened!” said Boucher, the Mon- Dash Ta Fame SI 105 day following her epic victory. “Thank you to my parents, my hus- SI 113 Sudden Fame band and friends that encourage me, even if I’m a bad friend that Eddie Stinson SI 98 misses all the parties and holidays! Thank you to Tiany Schuster SI 111 and Edwin Cameron, who were the first to give me a chance in the Sixarun Casino Lights SI 106 States. Charlie Cole, Jason Martin and Ryann Pedone as well. Thank SI 99 you to my sponsor Seven Saddles. Thank you to Julien Veilleux and Ease On Down his family and my other customers in Canada that are more than SI 103 just customers, we work and dream together and that’s really impor- KN Snap Back tant to me!” 2016 Sorrel Mare Veilleux, president of Robotec, a heavy equipment company, was On The Money Red already happy with having a quality horse to compete with at the Designer Red SI 103 Pink Buckle before the victory. SI 87 “It is impressive to be surrounded by the best of the industry Pin A Rose On Me and have the opportunity to learn from (them),” he said. “To have KN Hanks Design Dila a horse winning among the best is just WOW! It really motivates us Letta Hank Do It to keep going!” KN Letta Girl Do It Cosmos Cash SI 86 Rider: Caroline Boucher; Owner: Julien Veileux; Breeder: Stephen Nichols w/Caroline Boucher THE RUNDOWN Boucher, who also lives outside of Montreal in Quebec, kept KN Snap Back “Eddie” Eddie incredibly consistent, running a 17.070 to place second in the BIT: Smooth D-ring to compete. “Five minutes before my run, I’m riding first round and a 17.092 to placed third in the second for the win- her with a reverse gag. It helps lift her shoulders and keep her rib cage ning average of 34.162 on a WPRA Standard Pattern. and hips movable.” She knew another clean run would make the outcome in the HEADGEAR: Loose leather tiedown average “interesting” so Boucher says she tried to focus on her job SADDLE: Seven light model as a rider. “When I’m thinking of what I need to focus on, I’m not ner- SADDLE PAD: 5 Star vous,” she said, “but if I don’t think about my job, I’m nervous. My LEG GEAR: Professional’s Choice on front, polo wraps behind mental game plan that works for me is always focusing on doing my SHOEING: Steel lite rims on front, steel Sx7 on back job on each horse, what they need from me as a rider and letting FEED: Purina Outlast them do their job. So, on the back of Eddie, I knew I can cut a little HAY: All she can eat coastal, plus 2 flakes of alfalfa morning and night inside of my going to the first and I really need to focus on bring- SUPPLEMENTS: Electrolytes, GastroGard daily, Omega Oils ing her beside each barrel because she is ‘turny.’ I usually need to lift ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES: “We believe in a lot of alternative therapies. Eddie my leg out of the first!” responds very nice to them. She has her full kit of Back On Track. Eddie Bred by Stephen and Kimi Nichols of Brownwood, Texas, Eddie is by leading sire Eddie Stinson. She is out of a second generation has a vet chiropractor, Dominique Bouchard in Quebec that checks on her barrel horse from Nichols’ program, KN Hanks Design Diva, a every week and does what needs to be done. When we are in the States daughter of Designer Red out of KN Letta Girl Do It, by Letta we have Don Lee or Greg Ford taking care of her.” Hank Do It. Veilleux purchased the mare as a 2-year-old. TRAINING/CONDITIONING: “When they are young, we work more around the “She had 60 days of training with Kimi and we took the mare barrels, just to show them to move around, but not a lot in the pat- over from then,” explained Veilleux. “Like most of Kimi’s horses, tern. But now, at 4 years old, more work to keep her supple and light she was very well broke and very kind when we got her. Eddie was mouthed, not doing the pattern, but tuning once per week around the like the perfect girl in the group. She was very athletic and well bal- anced. She turned out to be the perfect horse for our program.” barrels slowly. So, two to three times riding for suppling and lightness Eddie was the first horse that Boucher trained for Veilleux. The and one time around the barrels.” two became acquainted two years ago through Heavens Guy, a JL SPONSORS: Seven Saddles Dash Ta Heaven futurity horse that she was riding for Edwin Cam- PInk Buckle Futurity Continued on Page 3 Pink Buckle Futurity Continued From Page 2 eron and Tiany Schuster. super nice horse to be around. I can’t say anything else; she is just “They decided to sell him and Julien called me and asked if it like a perfect little soldier.” would be a good horse for his daughter Oceane,” she recalled. “I Veilleux says he hates that business kept him from attending the thought it would be an awesome match.” Pink Buckle, because he would have liked to have been there to Boucher, who started jumping horses at age 11 but switched to celebrate the win. barrel racing at 13, trained Eddie as a 3-year-old. Their first futurity “We couldn’t go to the Pink Buckle this year because of a busi- was the BFA Juvenile. Boucher ran the mare through the Patriot Fu- ness commitment, but I sure followed the webcast!” he said. “After turity before sending her back to Veilleux for Oceane to ride during the second go on Saturday, we knew that we had a shot at winning the summer. the average, so we stayed like a junky on the webcast and were Veilleux says his daughter did well on Eddie over the summer. exchanging texts, sharing our excitement with Caroline all day up to “At first, Oceane had to adapt to Eddie’s turning style,” he said. the last run. French Canadians love to part so the hardest part of “Eddie is very snappy behind the barrel and we hit a lot of barrels. not being there was the fact that we couldn’t share a good bottle of Most of the time, she would have won the go if the barrel stayed wine with Caroline and Oliver on Saturday night!” up. By the end of the season, Eddie and Oceane were more and Veilleux got into barrel horses because he wanted to do some- more consistent and were in the money at every futurity. We were thing more exciting than trail ride. His passion for the sport really very proud that Oceane succeeded at keeping Eddie on top of her took off when his family started to compete as well. game.” “It really moved from a passion to a way of life when Oceane The 15-year-old did a great job having Eddie ready for Boucher, started to compete,” he said. “My son started to compete as well who only got Eddie back a week before the Pink Buckle and didn’t last year. We started to go to the United States to compete, partner even get to enter a jackpot before the lucrative event. with the best in the industry and try to make our way to the win- “We call Eddie ‘our little soldier,’” said Boucher, who started ner’s circle.” training barrel horses full time in 2015 and competing in the States The Pink Buckle winner’s circle yielded a $94,971 owner’s share in 2016. “She’s super serious, always ready to please, good man- of the purse, while the Nichols earned $5,587 as the breeder and nered, never ever pinch an ear and never goofy or spooky. She is a Eddie Stinson claimed $11,174. The Pink Buckle // Oct. 7-11, 2020, Guthrie, OK Futurity Average Placing Horse YOB, Color, Sex Sire-Dam, Dams Sire Rider Owner Time Earnings 1D 1 KN Snap Back 16 s. m. Eddie Stinson-KN Hanks Design Dila, Designer Red Caroline Boucher Julien Veileux 34.162 $55,250 Stallion: Eddie Stinson, $6,500 Breeder: Stephen Nicholes, $3,250 2 CBC Speeding Goodbye 16 s.

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