Jody Sheffield and Skip the Finances Bank at Sisters Rodeo
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JUNE 12, 2012 Volume 7 : Issue 23 In this issue... • CNFR Barrel Racing, page 2 • Nutralix Barrel Daze, page 11 • West Virginia Futurity, page 16 • Ultimate Barrel Race, page 22 ffastast hhorses,orses, ffastast nnewsews • WRAPN3, page 26 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Jody Sheffi eld and Skip The Finances Bank at Sisters Rodeo By Tanya Randall 2011 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifi er Jody Sheffi eld of Rocket Wrangler Ogden, Utah, is back to her winning ways with a $3,952 victory at Dash For Cash si 97 the $10,000-added Sisters Rodeo, held June 8-10 in Sisters, Ore. si 114 Find A Buyer Sheffi eld and her homegrown star Skip The Finances (“Zoey”) Financially tb turned in a 17.43 to fi nish nearly 2/10ths ahead of the triumvirate si 98 of Danna Stovner, Brenda Mays and Christina Richman. The three Reb’s Policy ladies posted identical times of 17.61 to each pocket $2,568.80 of Dotties Tears tb the $18,376.80 total purse. si 91 “She ran really good,” Sheffi eld said of Zoey. “The ground was a Spanish Tears little bit dry and she felt like she had a little bit of hard time getting Skip The Finances a hold of it, but she must of handled it better than the rest.” 2004 Bay Mare Making the championship extra special was how Zoey handled Skipbar Supreme the walk-in start. Sisters uses a corner gate, so you have to enter the Skipbar Crystola arena to setup your run. In the past, those setup starts haven’t been Zoey’s forte. Gold Fingers Note “Normally she doesn’t like to be held back very well,” Sheffi eld Skip Chris Coy explained, “so we usually ended up getting in a fi ght in those type Spanish Etch situations. So, I decided to back her in and see how she handled it, Hotters Dot and she did really well.” Sheffi eld is happy to have her mare back working well after a Skipun Flame Rider/Owner: Jody Sheffield; Breeder: Jesse Sheffield rather dry winter run in Texas. “I came home after Texas and really didn’t go too much until the past few weeks when our circuit rodeos started up,” she said. Although she hasn’t ruled out a run for this year’s WNFR, Shef- “As soon as we got her home (from Texas) we took her to the vet fi eld’s realistic about her chances. Rather she’ll focus on making it and ran some tests and stuff. We found a couple things and made back in 2013. some adjustments, did some ranching on her. Finally, she’s coming “We’d have to have a really, really good summer,” she said. “If around. These past few weeks she’s really coming back to her old not, we’ll dang sure give it a shot next year. I’d sure like to get back self. I’m really excited to be able to start the summer that way.” there.” Sheffi eld is getting ready to go out on the road for the Fourth of While Zoey, an 8-year-old daughter of Financially out of Skip July run. She’ll head to Canada for the lucrative rodeos in Ponoka Chris Coy, by Skipabar Crystola, is Sheffi eld’s sole rodeo horse at and Airdrie before dropping back into the states for the Gateway the moment, she does have some young talent in development. rodeos—Cody, Wyo., and Red Lodge and Livingston, Mont. “I’ve got some colts that I’ve been entering in the jackpots “I’m going to skip a couple of circuit rodeos and kind of work around home,” said Sheffi eld, who is sponsored by Cowgirl Tuff, my way back toward Canada,” said Sheffi eld, who makes her fi rst Burns Saddlery, The Pawing Bracelet, RodeoGenuis.com and Erics- run at the Calgary Stampede on July 9. son Equine of Scottsdale, Ariz. “I’ll think they’ll be ready to rodeo Last year, the duo’s Calgary experience went viral with barrel on sometime this summer. They’re all kind of at different stages. racers watching their horrifi c wreck on youtube.com. Sheffi eld and I’ve got one that we just picked up from a friend of ours that Zoey somersaulted after fi nishing their run and they later turned wanted us to take him to some rodeos, so hopefully we can get him out of their remaining run. ready and he can back me up a little bit. But, for now, it’s Zoey still.” “It’s not very often that a horse falls running in a straight line,” Developing her young talent and taking advantage of Zoey while she said with a wry laugh. “I’m really surprised that both of us she’s young and sound, were two of the reasons that Sheffi eld quit came out of it as good as we did. It could have been really bad. I re- her job as a marketing coordinator with US Foods before heading ally feel like last year was a fl uke thing. I think she just took a wrong to Texas for the winter run this year. step at the wrong time. I’ve never felt worried about it on her since. “We had so many good horses that weren’t getting the time I think she’ll be just fi ne.” that they needed because I was sitting at my desk,” she said. “My Pro Rodeos Continued on Page 4 2012 CNFR Barrel Racing Barrel Racing 1st Round 2 Deichert, Amy S., CHADRN 1 Bogies Lil Skeeter, Liz Combs, Sam Houston State University, 3 Saltsman, Cheyenne W. NWC 14.19 4 Zollinger, McKenzie L., UVU 03 gr. g. Bogie Biankus-Street Royale, Harley Street (TB) 5 Loughran, Katie J., CHADRN 2 Hayden Segelke, Northeastern Junior College, 14.21 6 Lane, Sammi J., NMHIGH 3 Bobbi Grann, Dickinson State University, 14.25 7 Logan, Samantha M., CSID 4 Emily Miller, Garden City Community College, 14.27 8 Nelson, Haley D., TXTUL 5 Jade Crossley, Blue Mountain Community College 9 Lacey, Alex A., SAMSU 5 Amy Deichert, Chadron State University, 14.34 10 Nace, Robbi L., MTSU 7 Morgann McDonald, Southwest Texas Junior College, 14.39 11 Smith, Bailie J., IACCC 8 Haley Nelson, Texas Tech University, 14.42 12 Vincik, Megan N., SAMSU 9 Leslie R. Jennings, SARU, 14.49 13 Flynn, Ari-Anna E., SEOKSU 10 Kassidy A. Dennison, COCHSE, 14.50 14 Reynolds, Kylene T., UMTW 11 Danielle L. Schubert, SDSU, 14.52 15 Crossley, Jade K., BLUE 12 Robbi L. Nace, MTSU, 14.58 16 Haynie, Stormie J., SAMSU 17 Talbot, Lekelsi, WEBER Barrel Racing 2nd Round 18 Treasure, Tyla A., UNVLV 1 HPQ Smokin Rascal, Hayden S. Segelke, NEJC, 13.98 19 Luther, Brittany G., LASSEN 06 pal. g. Una Frio Cerveza-Miss Smokin Annie, Fols Smoke 20 Pichler, Jesse L., LARMIE 2 Taylor E. Langdon, TXTUL, 14.07 21 Primm, Rachael B., CAPSLO 3 Emily R. Miller, GARDEN, 14.09 22 Horne, Dacia D., UTNM 4 Jade K. Crossley, BLUE, 14.10 23 Moore, Heather R., UTNM 5 Tyla A. Treasure, UNVLV, 14.15 24 Dahl, Kayla M., WEBER 6 Liz A. Combs, SAMSU, 14.16 25 McDonald, Morgann A., SWTXJC 7 Haley D. Nelson , TXTUL, 14.22 26 Schubert, Danielle L., SDSU 8 Leslie R. Jennings, SARU, 14.23 27 O’Loughlin, Dakota L., UID 9 Heather R. Moore, UTNM, 14.25 28 Beyer, Razzi M., TXAMU 10 Sammi J. Lane, NMHIGH, 14.27 29 Hays, Mary S., BLUE 10 Amy S. Deichert, CHADRN, 14.27 30 Jennings, Leslie R., SARU 12 Rachael B. Primm, CAPSLO, 14.33 31 Segelke, Hayden S., NEJC 32 Driscoll, Mallory, BYU Average after 2 Rounds 33 Fuller, Rayann E., SARU Placing, Rider, College, 1st Go time, 2nd Go Time, Avg. Points 34 Miller, Emily R., GARDEN 1 Hayden Segelke, NEJC, 14.21, 13.98, 28.19, 150.0 35 Rita, Shelby M., MESACC 2 Liz Combs, SAMSU, 14.19, 14.16, 28.35, 110.0 36 Carter, Casey N., TARLET 3 Emily Miller, GARDEN, 14.27, 14.09, 28.36, 110.0 37 Grann, Bobbi J., DICKSN 4 Jade Crossley, BLUE, 14.34, 14.10, 28.44, 85.0 38 Hayes, Allyson S., MURRAY 5 Amy Deichert, CHADRN, 14.34, 14.27, 28.61, 35.0 39 Frost, Jessica M., TXTUL 6 Haley Nelson, TXTUL, 14.42, 14.22, 28.64, 30.0 40 Brown, Katlyn N., UTNM 7 Leslie Jennings, SARU, 14.49, 14.23, 28.72, 10.0 41 Robertson, Emily A., TVCC 8 Tyla Treasure, UNVLV, 14.61, 14.15, 28.76, 40.0 42 Freeman, Quincy M., CAPSLO 9 Taylor Langdon, TXTUL, 14.79, 14.07, 28.86, 70.0 43 Combs, Liz A., SAMSU 10 Morgann McDonald, SWTXJC, 14.39, 14.53, 28.92, 20.0 44 Netzer, Victoria P., DICKSN 45 McCaffery, Ceri C., SWOKSU 2012 CNFR Barrel Racing Contestants: 46 Dennison, Kassidy A., COCHSE 1 McGuire, Marlys A. 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