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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013 Volume 7: Issue 35 In this issue... • Northern Lights Futurity, pg 11 • Southern Stampede, pg 14 • Jurassic Classic, pg 24 • Pro Rodeos & World Standings, pg 29 • Run For the Diamonds, pg 34 fast horses, fast news • DeKalb Fall Classic, pg 35 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Family tradition—Jackie Ganter & Recent Release capture ANHA Shootout By Tanya Randall Jackie Ganter and her mother Angela may well be the only moth- Rocket Wrangler er-daughter duo to own Steve Fiebig Memorial Fast Time Buckles Dash For Cash si 97 from the ANHA Shootout. si 114 Find A Buyer In 2007, Angela guided VF A Sporty Design, now owned by the Light On Cash tb Chouest family of Cut Off, La., to a spectacular 16.783 to win the si 95 2D Shootout. This year at the 24th Annual ANHA Shootout, held Easy Jet Aug. 30-Sept. 2 in the Extraco Show Pavilion in Waco, Jackie guided Lightfooted si 100 Recent Release, owned by Kristi Schiller, to a deliriously fast 16.670, si 103 an ANHA record on a certified WPRA Standard Pattern, to win the Go Together si 104 1D Shootout and $2,457. Recent Release “I win third everywhere,” laughed Jackie, who hails from Abilene, 1998 Chestnut Gelding Texas. “Finally, I win first. It would always seem that I’d win a Three Bars round or do really well in the rounds then come back in the finals Citation Bars tb and make a really great run, but I still end up third!” si 95 Leota W At the Shootout, Jackie qualified all five of her horses back in the si 95 1D Shootout, running a couple of them back-to-back. She qualified Parr Pas R and her new mount Blazin Baby J for the Shootout in the first si 92 Parr Passum round. Pas Bunch si 95 si 95 “My first run he was toward the bottom of the drag,” she said, Bunch recalling her first run on R, a 15-year-old gelding by Light On Cash Rider: Jackie Ganter; Owner: Schiller Ranch; out of Parr Pas, by Citation Bars. “He ran in and took a pretty good Breeder: Miranda Prewett stumble at the first and went almost all the way to the wall. He was really running. He was flying. He smoked the second and third.” They posted a 17.053 to finish third in round, and Ganter noted, WATCH THE FASTEST RUN O F “I knew he could do a least a little bit better because I knew the THE HOOTOUT stumble had cost us, but I didn’t know how much. I knew he could ANHA S ! run at least a .9 or an .8.” Watch Jackie Ganter on Recent Release run the She chose to rest R for the Shootout, turning out of the second fastest time of the ANHA Shootout, Waco, TX round. - Also setting a new Arena Record! “He just came back from an injury that Kristi spent a lot of Courtesy of 3-2-1 Action Video. time and money fixing,” said Ganter, who is sponsored by Schiller Ranch, K9s4COPs, RES Sport Boots, MVP Exceed 6-Way, Double I was in the alley before my first run, my mom told me, ‘It doesn’t J Saddlery and Dr. Randy Lewis of Key City Veterinary Clinic in matter what you run. I don’t care if you lope the pattern and run Abilene. “After he stumbled in the first round, he was totally fine -af an 18. Just have a good run on him.’ I get in the alley and he’s super ter it, but I didn’t want to put him in the situation to maybe stumble calm, which is really weird because he’s a Dash Ta Fame with Bedu- again. So, he just rested the second day. I just walked him some out ino on the bottom. We go around all three barrels and I was like, in the back.” ‘Oh, that wasn’t bad.’ He’s really big and has a huge stride. I didn’t Her superstar in the first round turned out to be her new horse, realize how big his stride was. I didn’t think it was a bad run but I Blazin Baby J, a 4-year-old Dash Ta Fame, her mother just pur- didn’t think it would be fast at all. It was really shocking. His speed chased that week. It was her first run on the gelding and they ended is extremely deceiving.” up second with a 17.046. Ganter chose to rest Baby J the second round as well due to his “I got to trot him through the barrels a couple of times at the age. house,” she said, “but that’s all I could do because our ground is so In the second round, she placed with Bobbie Gene and Cartels bad. I was very surprised at our first round time. Callie told me he’s Fame—both had hit barrels in the first round—and Guys French not your typical 4-year-old. You can send him and trust him. When Jet. ANHA Continued on Page 4 IN THE NE W S .......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... Myers Performance Horse Prospect Sale out of Rimes Bouquet si 101, was the high selling yearling mare and by Larry Larson was consigned by DelRae Driggers, Berino, New Mexico. She left the ring at $24,000 from Mike Hays from Louisiana. August 23, 2013, Spearfish, SD-- Myers Training Stable - Lead- ing Breeders In The Performance Horse Industry. The home of Leading Barrel Horse Sire Frenchmans Guy, Hot Colours si 102, Handsome Jack Flash Streaks World Speed AA, A Smooth Guy and Cowboys Cartel si 93 once again topped the charts with their semi-annual Myers Performance for Win in All American Futurity Horse Prospect Sale. Held east of Spearfish, South Dakota at the Handsome Jack Flash, trained by Juan Gonzalez and ridden by Seven Down Arenas, the sale featured 62 head of not only their Jaime Leos, broke sharply and dueled all the way for a :21.166 vic- own ranch-raised prospects but also a select offering from guest tory, by a neck, in the $2.6 million G1 All American Quarter Horse consignors. Futurity on Labor Day, September 2, at Ruidoso Downs. Guys Best Bet, consigned by Bill & Deb Myers and sired by their “It was my first All American ride and I was nervous before the senior sire Frenchmans Guy, drew considerable interest prior to the race,” said Leos. “My main concern was getting away well. Once we sale and during the preview. Leaving the ring after active bidding on got to the lead, he just kept giving me all he had.” a final bid of $56,000 from Harry LaToush from Kansas, the 2011 Reagal Eagle, trained by Eduardo Gonzalez, winning trainer sorrel mare is out of Addicted To Cash, a proven producing full Juan’s brother, was runnerup by a nose over Wagon Tales in the sister to Leading Sire Dash For Perks and she has produced race 440-yard dash, the richest race for two-year-olds of any breed in winners of $96,000. Also foaled in 2011 was Guys Sangria, a sor- North America. Previously undefeated Especially Tres, the post rel mare again sired by Frenchmans Guy and out of the AAA and time favorite and winner of her trial by 3 1/2 lengths, yielded for AAA Stakes Producer Hot Brandi N Wine – an earner of $14,576 fourth by a neck. on the track. Guys Sangria is a full sister to the Myers Futurity Handsome Jack Flash earned $1.3 million for the win, his fourth Champion Guys Champagne Girl, an Arena Record Setter and Pro in five starts, and now has a career total of $1,482,271. A gelded son Rodeo Money Earner. Topping the bidding action at $35,000 was of First Moonflash, out of a Mr Jess Perry daughter, he is owned by Copper Spring Ranch from Bozeman, Montana. his breeder, Debra Laney, in partnership with Norma and Brenda High selling two-year-old stallion was Guys Fame, a palomino Alvarez. stallion sired by Frenchmans Guy and out of Disarray si 89, a This is the second All American Futurity win for Gonzalez, 48, daughter of Dash Ta Fame si 113. The Frenchmans Guy/Dash who has conditioned earners of $12.4 million, including 2003 All Ta Fame cross has proven to be stellar. Guys Fame is a full brother American Futurity winner By By JJ, and also saddled this year’s to the Myers 2009 High Seller Guys Famous Girl, a two-time slot sixth-place finisher You N How Many More. race champion, multiple futurity finalist in 2011 and the Nation’s #1 Feature Hero takes $2.8 million All American Derby Money Earning Barrel Horse of the Year – All Ages-All Divisions Feature Hero, a 24-1 longshot, claimed the richest win in Quarter with earnings of $125,000+. He drew a final bid of $32,500 from Horse history on Sunday, September 1, in the $2.8 million G1 All Ed Pfaff, a buyer from Wisconsin. American Derby. Wicked Courage, the 6-5 favorite and winner of This Guyz A Leader, a 2011 palomino gelding brought a bid of both the Ruidoso Derby and the Rainbow Derby, finished seventh. $26,000 from Scott Gray from Canada. By Frenchmans Guy, he The win was the first for Feature Hero, trained by Eddie Willis is out of Bugs Special Leader si 94, a Stakes Placed Winner on the and ridden by Jimmy Dean Brooks, since he took the Remington track.