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MAY 5, 2020 -- Volume 14: Issue 17 IN THIS ISSUE: • KK Run From “Rona”, Sealy, TX, pg 6 • Star Ranch 5D, Creson, TX, pg 13 • Modified Pole Bending Drill with Jordon Briggs, pg 16 • Ivy Hurst, Dustin Angelle’s and Craig Brooks 3 Favorite Bits, pg 19 • Barrel Racing Babies, pg 23 & pg 26 • Barrel Horses For Sale, pg 39 & pg 40 Published Weekly, online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 HE SAID-SHE SAID ... Q&A with Justin & Jordon Briggs and Lee & Hallie Hanssen — on page 2 Modified Pole Bending Drill... with JORDON BRIGGS — on page 16 photos by Kenneth Springer He Said - She Said with the Briggs’ & Hanssen’s This week Barrel Racing Report departs from the in-depth Jordon:: laughs features for a little as we are all getting a little chargy at the gate for Jordon: We have so many of those. What do you think, Justin? the removal of the COVID restrictions. We visited with two Justin: Probably getting stuck all the time and you getting mad at “power couples” in the barrel futurity industry--Justin and Jordon me. She thinks I get stuck on purpose, but I don’t. Briggs and Lee and Hallie Hanssen--for a little bit of laughter with Jordon: We’ve had to call my parents twice in the last month to a touch of seriousness. come pick us up because we’re stuck somewhere out in the middle of the pasture. JUSTIN & JORDON BRIGGS Justin: …with Bexley (who will be 2 in July). BRR: How did you meet and who pursued whom? Jordon: Yes! With Bexley! Jordon: He went to Tarleton and I went to Weatherford for college. Jordon: He’s completely sunk a truck and trailer too at the college We both had other significant others and just knew each other from finals. It’s definitely getting stuck. rodeos. Whitney Godinez is my best friend and went to high school with Justin. When I found out he had broke up with his girlfriend BRR: Best accomplishment as a team? and I had broke up with my boyfriend, Whitney called Justin for Jordon: I would say Frenchmans Future. That was Justin. My mom me. We went junior high…old school. owned Frenchmans Future. We decided she was going to be a little too rank for my mom. My mom and Justin decided to partner on BRR: Who is the best stall cleaner? her. He was going to break her and get her ready for Bill Myers’ sale Justin: We clean them together. It goes faster that way. in the fall. I had nothing to do with it. Justin is the one that PO’d Jordon: I would say Justin is because he’s a perfectionist. I’m more her at the sale and said we’re not selling her for that. We’re keeping of a ‘just get the job done’ person. her. He’s the reason we didn’t sell her. I fell in love with her and we bought her from my mom after that. The rest is history. Definitely BRR: Who is the most likely to track shavings or mud in the house? Frenchmans Future, for the whole family. Justin: Umm. Me. If need to go in the house for something, I don’t take my shoes off. BRR: What’s the best part of riding together? Jordon: He doesn’t take his shoes off and I’m a little bit of a clean Jordon:I don’t like to ride alone. Justin and I are constantly learning freak about my house. and constantly bettering ourselves. It’s wonderful to ride together and bounce ideas off of each other. When Justin goes to the futuri- BRR: Who is the better cook? ties, he watches everyone in the warmup pen. He watches the ex- **crickets** hibitions. He comes back to me and says so-so does this with their Jordon: That would be Justin. horse. What do you think about that? We go home and we try it. Justin: I cook the most because I’m hungry all the time. If I didn’t Justin: Our daily riding sessions are pretty fun because I’ll have the cook we wouldn’t eat. arena all shut up, tracking a cow through the middle of the barrel pattern and one of us basically has to pull up from what they’re BRR: Who is the better driver? doing. Normally it’s her, because I’m running a cow through the Jordon: Oh….. middle of the arena. It’s pretty fun during the day…really. Justin: I do all the driving, but she tells me how to do it. I don’t take the barrels and poles down when I rope so some- times I have to go on one side of the barrel and the steer goes on BRR: Most common horse-related argument? the other. I think that’s the fun part of our day too. We do both Justin: I’m sure we argue daily horse-wise. events at the same time. (Jordon laughs in the background.) Jordon: Our biggest argument is Justin gets everything stuck in the mud. LEE & HALLIE HANSSEN Jordon: That’s not horse-related. BRR: How did you meet and who pursued whom? Justin: Horse-related our biggest arguments are when to stop bid- Lee: We met at the Arizona futurities, eight years ago. In fact, next ding at a horse sale. week is our seven year anniversary. Jordon: Yeah Hallie: He pursued. Justin: Normally, one us wants to keep bidding and the other one Lee: I pursued Hallie. I asked her on a date. (Hallie laughs). I doesn’t. THOUGHT I asked her on a date, and she thought I was asking Jordon: Normally, Justin wants to keep bidding, and I’m like ‘No, her out to talk about me asking her to ride a horse. So, I go to pick No, No. Stop!’ her up for dinner. I’m thinking I’m taking her on a date and she comes running out and asks if its okay if my helper comes? Yeah… BRR: Most fought over piece of equipment? Great…I’d love for your helper to come. Then I got up to go to the Justin: The tractor. She’s always wanting the drag on and I’m always bathroom in the middle of dinner and her helper leaned over and using it for something else. said, ‘Hallie, I’m pretty sure Lee thought this was a date.’ Jordon: Definitely. Hallie: I apologized and flew to Minneapolis for a real date. Justin: She needs her arena drag. Jordon: We have totally different tastes in bridles so we don’t fight BRR: Who is the best stall cleaner? over horse equipment. Hallie: Me. Lee: I think she thinks she is. BRR: Best ‘I told you so’ moment? He Said/She Said Continued on Page 3 Rundown Recap Continued From Page 2 Lee: She probably IS the better stall cleaner. work. Hallie: I just get every piece. Lee’s good at wet spots, but not so The other one that came to mind was we won reserve in the much every little piece. I’m kind of crazy like that. juvenile and futurity a couple years go. That was pretty big deal. We won reserve in the Juvenile on Frenchmans Disco Rose, who we BRR: Who is the most likely to track shavings or mud in the house? owned with Dave and Lori Zabel, and won a round and reserve (in Hallie: Lee the futurity) by 1/1000th of a second on A French Lady. Lee: I won’t even debate that, but I also hire the cleaning lady, so I also take care of it. BRR: What’s the best part of riding together? Lee: I just really love my wife. BRR: Who is the better cook? Hallie: I think we do it well together. We might have disagreements Lee: Me. Hands down. but we always talk it through. We just do well together. It’s very Hallie: Definitely. I’m a better baker, but Lee’s the better cook. rewarding. When I win, he wins. Lee: I make dinner every night. I would say I live to eat and she eats Lee: That’s why I quit (competing). People think I don’t ride, but I to live. ride more now than I ever did in my life. I don’t have kids, but that’s the only thing I could compare it to. I’m so intense about my job, BRR: Who is the better driver? getting those colts warmed up right and getting their vet work right, Hallie: laughs whatever they need. When I hand her the reins, I know that I’ve Lee: I think Hallie’s forgotten how to drive. I just prefer to drive. I been a big part of that horse going on and succeeding. I have no don’t like to sit in the passenger seat. jealousy of her being the one going out in the arena and running. Zero. None. BRR: Most common horse-related argument? I get asked all the time why I don’t ride. I just don’t have any Lee: The order we’re riding that day. desire to compete anymore. None. But, I love the industry so much. Hallie: Yeah. The schedule of riding. We each have a different opin- I just don’t care to hear my name called. ion every day. Lee: Who needs work and what they need done with. BRR: Did it take a while for your styles to fit together? Lee says he’s doing more riding now than he did when he was com- Hallie: I pretty much tell Lee if I don’t like him doing something.