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IN THIS ISSUE: • Royal Crown Futurity, Bryan, TX • Royal Crown Derby & Slot Race, Bryan, TX, pg 7 • 2D Super Show & AMQ #27, Ft. Worth, TX, pg 24 • Pro Rodeos & World Standings, pg 29 • Barrel Horses For Sale, pg 39 FEBRUARY 23, 2021 // Volume 15: Issue 8 Published Weekly, online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 ROYAL CROWN FUTURITY CHAMPIONS DTF Classey Chick & Vauna Walker — page 2 ROYAL CROWN DERBY CHAMPIONS Epic Guy & Kassie Mowry — page 7 PRO RODEOS & WORLD STANDINGS Red Man Jones & Randee Prindle — page 29 Consistency Pays For Vauna Walker & DTF Classey Chick at Royal Crown Futurity By Tanya Randall Two blazing quick runs within 3/1,000ths of each other gave Vauna Walker and DTF Classey Chick (“Mia”) the futurity cham- ROYAL CROWN FUTURITY CHAMPIONS pionship at the Royal Crown Futurity, held February 21-22 at the Brazos County Expo Center in Bryan, Texas. DTF Classey Chick & Vauna Walker Originally scheduled for February 17-21, the historic winter storm Uri forced Royal Crown to push back their schedule to allow Dash For Cash First Down Dash SI 114 contestants time for safe travel. SI 105 “I love the Royal Crown,” said Walker, who won $24,589 at the First Prize Rose event. “They worked really hard to make it good.” Dash Ta Fame SI 98 Walker and her husband and driver, Randy, made it to the Expo SI 113 Tinys Gay Center on Wednesday after a three-day trip from Arizona. Their Sudden Fame SI 106 most pressing concern was finding diesel. After seeing long lines at SI 98 Bar Dearie the station in Ozona, Texas, the Walkers called ahead to the next SI 90 station to make sure some was available. DTF Classey Chick “It was uneventful until we got to Ozona,” Walker said. “It made us 2017 Chestnut Mare really nervous but it ended up working out just fine. Through that Fredericksburg (Texas) area we hit some slush, but the temperature Chicks Beduino was just above freezing. We would have stopped if it looked like we Debt Relief SI 104 SI 96 were getting ice, but it really was good all the way across.” Legal Snapshot At Bryan, a facility that’s been good to Walker in the past, she Indebtedmiss SI 102 and Mia turned in two insanely consistent runs. They finished third SI 96 Floyd de Great in the first round with a 15.481 and won the second with a 15.484 Sheza Spry Miss SI 102 to win the average and $15,381. They also picked up $1,345 with She Signed open carryovers for total earnings of $16,726. Rider: Vauna Walker; Owner/Breeder: Rubylee Walker “The first one I knew she was really going to fire,” said Walker. “She just feels really good. She was running so hard to that first THE RUNDOWN w/Vauna Walker barrel. I bumped her and she came back to me and just dug around DTF Classey Chick “Mia” 15.2 hands, 1,150 lbs. “She’s a big girl.” that turn. Truth is she about shook me loose and it took me to the BIT: Medium shank Ed Wright Lifter with a three-piece dogbone next barrel to catch back up with her!” SADDLE: A custom trophy Robbie Phillips. “We had it made it wide to fit Owned and bred by her mother-in-law Ruby, Mia is by all-time Mia’s chunky shoulders. I love it. There are very few saddles that I’ve sat leading barrel horse sire Dash Ta Fame out of the multiple race in that I just love like the Pozzi’s. This one fits me and it fits her.” winning mare Indebtedmiss, by Debt Relief. Walker has ridden five horses from that cross including standouts Dapper De Great, Lotta SADDLE PAD: 5-Star Fame Ta Claim and Dan I Am Famous. LEG GEAR: Iconoclast on all four She said that Mia is quite the character. SHOEING: Rims on all four “She sounds like a stallion and looks a little like a stallion,” she FEED: A little Purina Ultium and Outlast said. “She’s a little bulky. I often refer to her as Chucky Monkey. HAY: Alfalfa hay and a little bit of grass She carries her weight really easily. She has a really loud whinny that SUPPLEMENTS: PhytoSana CBD Crumbles; Ichon injectable for joints, monthly sounds like a stallion. She does it when she gets nervous. I’ll be in or more frequently when running more frequently the staging area getting ready to run and she’ll do that bellow. She’s the kind of horse that you can’t mess with much before you run her ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES: Back On Track products so I just ignore it. I know people look at her and think, ‘What in the TRAINING/CONDITIONING: “These two mares are really fun,” Walker said. “I world!’ She’s actually done that bellowing stud noise on the way to haven’t run them since the last futurity the first weekend in February, the first barrel occasionally!” and before that they hadn’t run since the last futurity in January. They Walker said that Mia’s extremely confident and has been that way do really well if you just put the miles on them. I’ll have a day, or a day or since she was really young. two if it’s been three weeks between runs, that I’ll do little drills. They’re “She’s been good to ride, good to train,” she said. “She’s never both really attentive so they don’t get a lot of barrel work. We ride lots done anything bad, but she likes to run. She quickly decided she knew what to do and didn’t need a lot of correction. Everything of miles in the washes and I take them to the ropings. That kind of riding that I do with her slow, she’ll kind of generalize that to fast, which seems to do them best. They’re both the kind that could get pressured really makes it fun. She’s been a lot of fun and really willing. She’s really easily because they’re so serious.” smart.” SPONSORS: PhytoSana CBD, Best Fit Horse Care, Mike & Cindy Holland Walker said what she works on the most with the mare is her Royal Crown Futurity Continued on Page 3 Royal Crown Futurity Continued From Page 2 positioning so she has room for the barrels in the turns. ent mare was due the end of February and we got home (from “She has that ratey Dash Ta Fame-kind of turn,” she said. “She Arizona) on January 23. We checked things and went to bed. Randy feels like she’s getting better at sticking her nose out and running to got up early because he was feeling uneasy. He walked out there that spot to give herself enough room to get around them.” and that mare had foaled in a blizzard. It was one of the worst Walker also placed fourth in the average on her homebred RV Bri- snow storms we’d had in years. She was tiny—you could pick her jett, a 4-year-old daughter of Blazin Jetolena out of DTF Mellow- up—but she never missed a beat. I’ve never seen anything like it. I doc, by Dash Ta Fame. Like her stablemate, Brijett was consistent figured she’d die, but we got her in and got her warmed up and she with runs of 15.631 and 15.707 to earn $7,863 between the futurity did fine.” and open. The Walkers are headed back to Arizona for a brief rest before “She’s got a pretty interesting story,” noted Walker. “The recipi- the C-N Futurity next weekend in Tulare, California. Royal Crown // Feb. 18-22, 2021, Bryan, TX Futurity Average 1D 1 DTF Classey Chick 17 ch. m. Dash Ta Fame-Indebtedmiss, Debt Relief Vauna Walker 30.965 $7,347 2 MCM Mulberrys Fling 17 bay rn. s. A Streak Of Fling-Mulberry Canyon Moon, Marthas Six Moons Jolene Montgomery 31.130 $6,573 3 A Streak Ta The Moon 16 rn. m. A Streak Of Fling-Dash Ta Suz, Dash Ta Fame Cheyenne Wimberley 31.275 $5,800 4 RV Brijett 17 s. m. Blazin Jetolena-DTF Mellowdoc, Dash Ta Fame Vauna Walker 31.338 $5,027 5 JL I Am Reddy 17 b. g. JL Reddy To Charm-JL Seraphina, Dash Ta Fame Mark Bugni 31.382 $4,254 6 KG Whatdiduexpect 16 gr. m. Judge Cash-Do It For Beau, Beus Scoop Of Sun Kathy Grimes 31.408 $3,479 7 Diamond Center 16 buck. s. A Smooth Guy-Dashs Centerfold, Dash Ta Fame Sue Smith 31.595 $2,707 8 MJ Barbwire Lane 16 gr. m. The Goodbye Lane-Winkens Express, Winken On Ya Marcie Wilson 31.648 $1,933 9 VQ Nonstop Stinson 17 s. m. Eddie Stinson-Honor This Nonstop, Mr Honor Bound Kelsey Treharne 31.657 $1,160 10 In Tha Beginning 17 s. m. JL Dash Ta Heaven-Chicados Bully, Chicados Cash Jolene Montgomery 31.713 $387 2D 1 VF Rosie Stinson 17 gr. m. Eddie Stinson-Beduinos Chick Jet, Rock Em Smooth Kelsey Treharne 32.483 $3,148 2 MilliondollaStreaker 16 b. m. French Streaktovegas-CC Cartel, Southern Cartel Ashley Schoppa 32.497 $2,817 3 FrenchmansFlickNCash 16 ch.m. Frenchmans Fabulous-Flick A Cash, Bugemforcash Corbin Pinyan 32.541 $2,486 4 I Bee So Slick 17 b. m. Slick By Design-Colonels Rosie Bee, Fourth Colonel Jennifer Sharp 32.547 $2,154 5 Aint Got Nothin On Me 16 b.