Dream Weekend for Flannery at Dash & Dance Futurity
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AUGUST 12, 2014 Volume 8: Issue 32 In this issue... • Dash & Dance Futurity • Xtreme Barrel Race, pg 13 • Pro Rodeos, pg 17 • Ogden 8 & Under World fast horses, fast news Championships, pg 28 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Dream weekend for Flannery at Dash & Dance Futurity By Tanya Randall With five head of horses entered in the $5,000-added Dash & A S H OR A S H Dance Futurity in Spearfish, S.D., the odds were decidedly in Sa- IRST OWN A S H D F C F D D SI 114 mantha Flannery’s favor, but she never expected to walk away with SI 105 four average checks plus champion and reserve honors. FIRST PRIZE ROSE “It was a dreamy weekend,” said the trainer from Mission, S.D. DA S H T A Fam E SI 98 SI 113 She collected more than $9,000 of the futurity purse. “I hope they TINYS GA Y don’t humble me anytime soon! I will treat each weekend carefully!” SUDDEN Fam E SI 106 With five of the 74 entries, Flannery had her hands full. Luckily, SI 98 she had an army to help. BA R DE A RIE “I had a great crew helping me,” she said. That crew included her BOLD A ND Fam OUS SI 90 husband Scott and two boys Jacob, 15, and Nathan, 13. “My hus- 2009 CH ESTNUT MA RE band and boys were there, helping me. My husband was in charge FIRST DOWN DA S H of filming and giving me water. My boys would take the horses and SI 105 HOLL A ND EA SE cool them off.” SI 109 She also had the help of Katie Langreau and several owners, in- EA SY HENRYETT A cluding Renae Smith, who owns the newly crowned Dash & Dance MISS BOLD RUNNER SI 90 Champion Bold And Famous (“Milo”) with her husband Cody. SI 90 BOLD EPISODE Milo, a 5-year-old daughter of Dash Ta Fame out of Miss Bold MISS BOLD HOPE SI 88 Runner, by Holland Ease, was trained by Amy Schimke and sent SI 107 to Flannery to take to the BFA World Championships last year. MISS JET HOPE SI 81 Flannery barely had the mare a week, when Schimke sold her to the Smiths. RIDER : Sam FL A NNERY ; OWNER : CODY & REN A E SM IT H ; BREEDER : JOLEEN HA LES & BILL W E G ER “She was very well patterned,” said Flannery. “I can’t take any credit for her great beginning. Anything from Amy Schimke is go- to do well and we’re anxious to see what doors that opens to us.” ing to have a great foundation. She’s been across the ranch. She was The Smiths purchased Milo to expand their fledging futurity and raised pretty ranchy. She wasn’t raised in a stall and that works well prospect program. for my program because we’re a ranch program, not a stall pro- “My husband Cody and I are looking to get together a good gram. It’s best if they know how to run wild a little bit.” set of mares and we really like the Dash Ta Fames,” said Smith, Flannery said Milo is very solid and has drawn checks nearly a regional marketing and advertising director for Case IH. “I had every time entered. Her only hiccup is she can be rough in her turns bought a previous Dash Ta Fame from Amy Schimke that I futu- on her first run, just as she was the opening round of the futurity. ritied and had success with last year. I saw Milo and really like how “She can be really rough in her turns, almost to the point where it she was bred on the bottom, so we purchased her. It’s worked really feels like she’s bucking, but she’s not,” she explained. “She just gets well to leave her with Samantha. They’ve had some pretty good suc- her feet stuck in the ground, so I really have to free her up and keep cess.” her moving. Smith said they plan on continuing to run Milo and pull embryos “When she inhaled the first barrel on her second run I knew her from her next spring. They’re already looking at Frenchmans Fabu- feet were freed up and we were ready to roll. That’s the only thing lous and Blazin Jetolena for Milo and their other Fame mare. with her. She can get a little rough in her turns. I don’t worry about “We’re into raising barrel prospects,” she said. Last year was much with her. She’s going to turn. She’s not going to shoulder. Smith’s first foray into the futurity game. “We have a 3-year-old She’s obviously fast enough. She’s not a hot mare. She rides great.” Dinero son. We have some Streak Of Fling babies. We just pur- The Smiths were both on hand to see their mare pick up her chased a Tres Seis daughter; we have her bred to CS Flashlight. $3,774 championship. Right now the oldest ones that we’ve raised are 5. We stand a son “It’s been a very fun, but challenging year for us, watching this of Frenchmans Guy, Cowbowin A Frenchman. We’re just starting mare at the futurities,” said Renae Smith. “We hope she continues to sell his babies. We’re hoping to have some nice babies and futu- Dash & Dance Continued on Page 4 IN THE NEWS .......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... Bass Wins Pro Fantasy Rodeo Contest ProRodeo Hall of Fame 2014 Inductees Pro Fantasy Rodeo is proud to announce the winner of the “Hot- There was a recurring theme in the speeches at the 35th annual test in July” Buckle competition and has awarded a custom buckle ProRodeo Hall of Fame induction ceremony Aug. 9, connected to and $2,500 cash bonus to Kaley Bass of Kissimmee, Fla., a 21-year heritage, history and the long road traveled to reach the sport’s pan- old Women’s Professional Barrel Racer and two-time Wrangler theon. Everybody had a great road story to tell; nobody’s stretched National Finals Qualifier. Bass, indeed was “hot” throughout the longer or had more air miles than Glen O’Neill’s. From Down month of July as she and her horse Cowboy Dan streaked through Under to Top of the World. winning runs throughout July. Bass picked up checks at numerous O’Neill, the 2002 saddle bronc riding world champion, became PRCA rodeos including Cody, Wyo., Livingston, Mont., Salinas, Ca., the first cowboy from outside North America to be inducted into Ogden Ut., Salt Lake City Ut., Cheyenne Wyo., as well as Canadian the Hall Saturday, the Australian joining fellow world champions PRCA sanctioned rodeos including Panoka, Williams Lake and Wayne Herman, Byron Walker and the late Pete Grubb, along with Airdrie to name a few. champion bullfighter Miles Hare, legendary bucking horse Spring Bass credits her horse, a 14-year old gelding she’s had since he Fling and four elite committees, from the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo, was three years old, as the key to her success. Receiving her WPRA Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho), Rowell Ranch Rodeo (Hay- card in 2011, Bass and Cowboy Dan have qualified for the Wran- ward, Calif.) and Greeley (Colo.) Stampede. gler National Finals Rodeo in both 2012 and 2013 with her highest Apart from his many honors in the arena - the gold buckle, 11 placing as 6th in the world standings at year’s end. Bass and her qualifications for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and career sister have used Cowboy Dan in both junior and high school rodeos earnings of $1.6 million - O’Neill may have set a record of sorts throughout his career, and Bass also hauls a full sister to the gelding Saturday, for the longest distance traveled by a family to witness as a backup horse she uses to give Cowboy Dan a break when he their kin’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony. needs it. “I told my wife, Connie, when we walked into the (Cowboy Ball Bass is currently sitting in the No. 1 position in the WPRA stand- Aug. 8) that this was almost surreal,” said Herman, 50. “It was a ings with year-long earnings of $127,209. When asked how she felt quite a journey to get here and I’m honored and quite humbled to about her “Hottest in July” title and all the money she’s won, she be standing in (the ProRodeo Hall of Fame) with the names that exclaimed that she was very excited about it all. She said Cowboy we were pretending to be to win the world when we were kids rid- Dan just seemed to take off at Panoka after the slow winter they’d ing the bucking machine. To be one of them (a ProRodeo Hall of had and the pair has been winning ever since. “Here I am,” she Famer) is unbelievable and hard for me to imagine.” said, “undoubtedly headed to my third Wrangler National Finals, I For Walker, who won his gold buckle as a steer wrestler in 1981 hope!” Not bad for a card carrying member of only four years with and whose 16 WNFR qualifications are equal to the second-highest career earnings of $354,085. total in the history of his event, this was a day that felt forever in The reference to a “slow winter” was evident as she had amassed coming.