2019 Pro Rodeo Summer Run Underway
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June 25, 2019 Volume 13: Issue 26 In This Issue: • Showdown In the Cascades, pg 21 • Superior Equine Barrel Daze, pg 22 • Revolution Barrel Racing, pg 24 • Go For Broke, pg 25 • Destrys Free 4 All, pg 33 Published Weekly, online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 2019 Pro Rodeo Summer Run Underway By Tanya Randall Things are heating up in the WPRA Standings as barrel rac- First Down Dash ers make the most of the lucrative summer season to punch their First Down Kelly SI 105 tickets to the 2019 National Finals Rodeo or set themselves up for a SI 101 Kellys Coffer good start to the 2020 race. Darkelly SI 105 Amber Moore and CP Dark Moon picked up a $3,085-victory SI 110 Shawne Bug at the Strawberry Days Rodeo in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It was the Shawne Kate SI 101 first trip to the rodeo for the three-time NFR qualifier from Salem, SI 89 Oregon. Little Fan Dancer SI 92 “I had never been CP Dark Moon there before,” she WPRA WORLD STANDINGS said. “The strawber- Courtesy of www.wpra.com - unofficial - as of 6/24/19 2009 Brown Mare ries were amazing. I 1 Nellie Miller $83,839.51 16 Dash For Cash drove 14-hours to get On A High SI 114 there and then nine- 2 Hailey Kinsel $66,877.30 23 SI 113 3 Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi $65,083.03 29 Yankee Doll hours down to Reno. Srqh New Highs TB It wasn’t on my way 4 Lisa Lockhart $56,652.28 14 SI 83 to Reno. Last year, 5 Jennifer Sharp $53,721.72 51 Easy Saint Cup Of Saint SI 107 I entered but didn’t 6 Shali Lord $52,332.22 21 SI 90 Cup Of Charm get to go. This year I 7 Stevi Hillman $50,906.25 37 drew up in a perf and TB 8 Ericka Nelson $49,981.71 30 Rider/Owner: Amberleigh Moore; Breeder: Chuck & Barbara Snellman I was like, ‘I’m going to go!’ It was beauti- 9 Jimmie Smith $49,374.03 36 ful. It was so pretty.” 10 Dona Rule $46,072.64 30 Reminic After finishing up her 11 Jessica Routier $44,805.76 19 Von Reminic winter run at Rodeo 12 Jessica Telford $41,335.24 23 Von Freckles Austin, Moore went 13 Ivy Conrado $38,138.60 14 home to get embryos Von Starlight 14 Lacinda Rose $37,527.32 34 Grays Starlight out of Paige. Repro- 15 Leia Pluemer $37,166.05 38 ductive roadblocks Rs Lilly Starlight and wet weather kept 16 Emily Miller $36,096.23 35 Play Zana Express her turning out of 17 Jackie Ganter $35,482.56 33 the few rodeos that 18 Jill Wilson $34,958.08 37 Blondys Starlight she did enter this 19 Cheyenne Wimberley $33,942.35 35 2009 Bay Mare spring. 20 Teri Bangart $33,776.70 28 Mr Dude Jack “I turned out of a www.BarrelRacingReport.com Small Town Baker lot of rodeos because it rained,” she said. Jo Lee Baker “I didn’t get to run at Redding or Hayward (California) because it Small Towns Gold rained. I didn’t get to run at Clovis, that was the one week I did a Skippa Little Gold get an embryo. My vet told me I could go, but it was going to be Tontos Skippa Time 105 and I didn’t think I should be running her and hauling her in Penny Bar’s Vee 105 degree weather, if I really wanted that embryo. So, I chose to sit out of Clovis because Paige was making me a baby.” Rider/Owner: Justine Elliott; Breeder: Gerold & Maureen Arnold Pro Rodeos Continued on Page 5 IN THE NEWS.......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... Over five steers, Dees and Siggins became the high callback team, and would Victory Farms Sale June 29, 2019 compete last. They watched six straight teams make clean runs, and needed an 8.47 This Saturday, June 29, 2019 Victory Farms will be having a Production Sale at the for the aggregate win. Their 7.2 edged the six-head time of Oklahoma ropers Cale Ranch in Ada, Ok at 1 pm. They are selling over 80 head of barrel prospects, barrel Markham and Brye Crites by about a second. horses, broodmares, and stallion prospects from some of the most popular bloodlines Interviewed in the arena immediately after the celebration, Siggins said that Dees in the business. had just made him a superstar. In fact, this was just Dees’ second time in the BFI, but Bloodlines include own sons & daughters of Victory Farms studs Eddie Stinson, Siggins had been entering it since he was a teenager. Designer Red & Got Your Six along with Dash Ta Fame, Frenchmans Fabulous, First Down The Siggins family makes a living near Coolidge, Arizona, riding, training and selling Dash, Corona Cartel, One Famous Eagle, Tres Seis and One Dashing Eagle to name a few. roping horses. When Dees arrived at their house last fall, it was to further his own The preview for the sale will be at 10 am Saturday, June 29, 2019 and all horse can career riding and training horses. By March, he and Lane had become fast friends and be seen on Friday evening, June 28 & Saturday June 29, 2019 before the sale. began to enter rodeos together. The sale will be available for online viewing and bidding at www.LiveAuctions.tv. “We just click,” said Dees. “We get along; he’s like a brother to me. We just have fun Links to the sale catalog and more information can be found at www.VictoryFarms. and have had luck together.” com or call the Victory Farms office at 580.777.2877. Dees spent his early childhood in Arizona, too, before cutting his teeth as a roper in South Dakota. In fact, during the BFI he was on the phone with his mentor, three-time ProRodeo Hall of Fame welcomes horses for the summer NFR heeler Matt Zancanella, after every steer. Siggins got a little remote coaching, too, from “Zanc” after missing the haze on the first BFI steer. The ProRodeo Hall of Fame had two horses arrive June 19 as part of its live animal “I’ve wanted to win this all my life,” said Dees, who basically grew up on the arena display at the Hall in Colorado Springs, Colo. floor at places like the BFI, watching Zancanella compete. The Zancanella family also Powder River Rodeo’s saddle bronc horse Bartender and bareback/saddle bronc raised the horse Dees credits with his big win. Famous Dillon was sired by their barrel- horse Diamond Mine were welcomed to the grounds. Both horses are 25 and retired racing stallion Lion’s Share of Fame – a full brother to Gun Battle, a racehorse with a from ProRodeo competition in 2012. They will be at the ProRodeo Hall of Fame until speed index of 110. mid-September. “Dillon” had a half-brother on which Dees qualified for the NFR in 2017, but the The exhibit will be in the ProRodeo Hall of Fame barn and will be accessible by the horse suffered a career-ending injury last year. Just 8 years old, Dillon went to his first public (including handicapped accessibility) during regular museum hours of 9 a.m.-5 rodeo this spring. On the other hand, Siggins’ gray 12-year-old gelding, “Shooter,” is p.m. (MDT) seven days a week through August, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through a veteran and performed so well that he won the annual Heel Horse of the BFI award Sunday in September. from Montana Silversmiths. Registered as Amigos Sonita Las, he has foundation cow- “The Rodeo Livestock Exhibit is very popular with our guests,” ProRodeo Hall of horse breeding. Fame Director Kent Sturman said. “We appreciate Powder River Rodeo’s willingness to “Tanner Baldwin trained him, and I’ve had him three years now,” said Siggins, who help with this project. Their horses are some of the best in the business, and we are tweaked his roping style to fit the horse. “I have always liked a tighter feel, to where honored to have Bartender and Diamond Mine with us for the summer.” I need to kick a horse up, but he is so free-rolling that I needed to change a little. I Bartender was selected to compete at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo seven mostly watched Ryan Motes to learn his style, since his horses never take his throw times. away.” Diamond Mine was selected to compete at the Wrangler NFR in 1999 and took part Motes’ horse, incidentally, was the 2014 Heel Horse of the BFI. On the fresh steers in in many National Circuit Finals Rodeos and Mountain States Circuit Finals Rodeos. Reno, many horses anticipate the stop and cause heelers to miss their shot, hurry their --Courtesy of www.prorodeo.com delivery or struggle to dally. But Shooter is honest every time. In fact, Siggins asked Dees to make sure and face on a tight rope to prevent any slipped legs. Dees and Siggins win BFI, $120K in Reno On the other end, Riley Minor won his record fourth Head Horse of the BFI award, The flag at the 42nd Annual Bob Feist Invitational Team Roping on June 24 was courtesy of his defending PRCA/AQHA Head Horse of the Year, RK Tuff Trinket (“Bob”). still moving at the end of the final run of 7.2 seconds when 26-year-old Lane Siggins Minor and his brother, Brady, were winning this year’s BFI after four steers with a began racing around the arena to celebrate the resulting $120,000 cash prize with 29.61, but a leg penalty in the fifth round dropped them to 10th callback.