BARREL RACING REPORT - Fast Horses, Fast News since 2007 - Volume 5, Issue 36 www.barrelracingreport.com September 6, 2011 Casi Conrad and Corona Dude Dancer on Target By Tanya Randall If the past two weeks are any indication, you don’t want to mess with Casi Conrad and Corona Dude Dancer (“Salty”) in a Shoot- THE RUNDOWN: CASI CONRAD out—a barrel shootout that is. Just a few weeks ago, the pair won HORSE: Corona Dude Dancer “Salty” the Summer Shootout in Oklahoma City. This Labor Day weekend, Sorrel Gelding, 5 Years Old, 16 hands, 1200 lbs. they claimed the 1D Championship at the ANHA 5D Shootout in BIT: Ed Wright Medium Shank Lifter with a three-piece Waco, Texas. mouthpiece Their winning time was a spectacular 16.688, which claimed the HEADGEAR: None Steve Fiebig Memorial Fast Time Buckle. “When he took off I didn’t think he was going that fast,” said Con- SADDLE: Carl Ammerman rad, a 31-year-old barrel racer from Hearne, Texas. “Wow, I couldn’t PAD: Impact Gel fault him for anything in that run.” LEG GEAR: Classic Equine on front. I’ll add polo wraps to the The victory was worth $1,401 of the $101,700 total purse, of which rear legs for her next run due to speed cuts on his inside hind $12,500 was added to the barrels and $5,000 was added to the 5D legs. Pole Bending Shootout. This year’s event drew 583 barrel racers and GRAIN: Omelene 200 111 pole benders. SUPPLEMENTS: Platinum Performance Conrad and Salty turned in a 17.875 on their fi rst run, and a sixth-place time of 17.106 on their second for an additional $378. HAY: Alfalfa “I usually ride to the mouth of the alley before I let him go because ADDITIONAL HORSE CARE: Rims on all four, Dr. Marty Tanner he is so fast,” said Conrad. “He was wanting to go so I took a hold is my vet. (Salty) gets a look over every six weeks, because the of him and I guess that made him think it wasn’t for real and we shoer is there. Darrel Elliot’s my chiropractor. were just cruising through on our fi rst run. He worked a beautiful pattern, but was just loping. my run, so he doesn’t get nervous. By the third run, he was really “On my second run, he really went to turn the fi rst and he hit good. He was like, ‘Hey, I got this now.’” himself. I heard him hit himself and he ran a 1.” Conrad hopes to rodeo on the gelding and looks at the fall run Amazingly, the Shootout round was just Conrad’s 10th run ever of Texas fair rodeos like Seguin, Bellville and Liberty as possibly his on the 5-year-old gelding by Corona Dancer out of the Junoimgood fi rst pro rodeos. However, she’s mindful of the gelding’s youth and mare This Chicks For You. Conrad and her grandmother, who mentality and she wants the horse to last for many years to come, so passed away exactly three months after his purchase, purchased her actual plans depend all on how Salty’s doing at the time. Salty on March 27, 2010. “He’s a pretty neat dude,” she said. “I just ride him quiet at home “I had always done this myself, buying young horses and stuff, and do outside stuff on him. When I ride him up the alley, he and she got a wild hair and wanted to buy a horse. We were look- knows what to do. He’s pretty free running. I don’t know what he ing for something young that was ready to go on. I saw him when would do if you asked him for much more!” Latricia Duke had him, and she already had him running 1D times.” ANHA stands for the American Novice Horse Association, cre- Conrad and her grandmother decided to leave Salty with Duke ated by Steve and Kathy Thornton of Rockdale, Texas. The Asso- throughout his futurity career. Conrad picked up him after the BFA ciation catered to the novice classifi cations that once characterized World in December. the barrel racing industry that separated horses by the amount of “I gave him a break when I got him home,” she said. “He was money they had won, i.e., Green Novice was for horses that hadn’t pretty sore. He had fallen with Latricia before the JB Futurity (in won any money and the $1,000 Novice was for horses that had yet November). Once he got better, I just rode him a lot a home to get to reach that earnings total, so on and so forth. things fi gured out. I haven’t really worked him on barrels at home. I When the divisional format superseded the novice system, the just rode him outside the arena, trying to get to know him.” Thornton’s modifi ed the Shootout. Now, each contestant competes Conrad, who started barrel racing as a teenager, has spent the past in two 5Ds to determine their placement for the individual Shoo- 10 runs trying to fi gure out what type of warm-up routine fi ts the touts. For example, the 30 contestants qualifying into the 4D only speedy gelding. competed against other 4D horses and the 30 qualifi ers to the 2D “He’s a lot of horse because he’s really fast and he can get a little Shootout only compete against the other 2D qualifi ers. nervous,” she said. “I would warm him up outside and bringing him in and just hand-walk him. I wouldn’t get on until the drag before ANHA Shootout Continued on Page 4 IN THE NEWS.......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... pion and All American Futurity winner Corona Cash; G1 winner Tres Seis His Siring Double and leading sire Corona Cartel; and G1 winner and leading fresh- A very rare feat for a sire was accomplished over the weekend man sire Valiant Hero. with Ochoa winning the All American Futurity, the richest race in The $650,000 price for A Dash Of Sweet Heat broke the Ruido- quarter horse racing. Ochoa is a 2 year old gelding sired by Tres Seis so Select Sale record for a fi lly that lasted just one day. Justice Down and out of Stolis Fortune by Stoli. On Monday afternoon he raced Toll SA, another daughter of Mr Jess Perry, brought $630,000 to a $1.2 million dollar payday with the brisk time of 21.058 for 440 during Saturday’s session. The half-sister to G1 Los Alamitos Two yards. Earlier in the year Seis So Sweet raced to a $55,900 check in Million Futurity winner One Quick First Down was consigned by the richest futurity in barrel racing at the Old Fort Days Futurity Vessels Stallion Farm and Gianni Samaja and was purchased by in a time of 16.865. Seis So Sweet, a 4 year old fi lly, is also by Tres David and Sue Mackie. Seis and out of Stella D Oro by Takin On The Cash. In 2011, Tres The high-selling colt of the three-day sale was Class Jump at Seis hit the speed sport double siring the winner of the richest $310,000. The Corona Cartel son was consigned by Double Bar quarter horse race and the winner of the richest barrel futurity! His S Ranch and purchased by William Smith. He is a full brother to pedigree, of course, tells the story as he is a grandson of Streakin champion Carters Cartel, out of champion 2-year-old fi lly Jumpin Six on the top side and his second dam is a full sister to Tiny’s Gay. Tac Flash. --Courtesy of www.SallyHarrison.com Congratulations to his connections as this is believed to be the fi rst and only time this has been done. Llano Teller Winner of All American Derby Llano Teller scored a 9-1 upset in the $1,316,760 G1 All Ameri- Ochoa Wins All American Futurity can Derby on Sunday, September 4 at Ruidoso Downs. He earned Ochoa, a $25,000 Ruidoso Select Sale yearling purchase in 2010, a payout of $658,380 for the 440-yard win, as well as an invitation earned a $1.2 million winner’s purse in the All American Futurity at to the $750,000 G1 Champion of Champions in December, at Los Ruidoso Downs on Monday, September 5. Alamitos Race Course in California. Sent off as the 8-5 favorite, after posting the fastest time in the Trained by co-owner Heath Reed, the gelded son of Teller Cartel, trials, the gelded son of Tres Seis broke sharply from the number broke sharply, dueled with second-place fi nisher Prospect To The nine post position and powered past the outside of the fi eld to a Top (11-1), then cleared the wire by one-half of a length, with a one and one-half length win, in :21.05. time of :20.867. It was his third G1 victory and second of the sum- It was the fi rst All American Futurity win for Roy Baldillez. Bal- mer (he won the $703,000 Ruidoso Derby in June). dillez was catching riding Ochoa for seven-time All American win- “I was thinking if I had a chance to break, I’ve got a chance to be ner Jacky Martin, who is paralyzed in an El Paso hospital, following in front at the wire,” said Llano Teller’s catch-rider Ramon Sanchez, a riding accident on Friday.