Ivy Conrado & Cfour Tibbie Stinson Triumph in Fort Worth, Take World
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FEBRUARY 9, 2016 Volume 10: Issue 6 In this issue... • Pro Rodeos & World Standings, pg 8 • No Bull Barrel Race, pg 13 • CP Timed Event Challenge, pg. 26 • Heart of Texas, pg 28 fast horses, fast news • Tri-K Polar Express, pg 33 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Ivy Conrado & CFour Tibbie Stinson Triumph in Fort Worth, Take World Standings Lead By Tanya Randall A busy 10 days for Ivy Conrado and her home-bred winner IRS T OW N ASH ASH A AME F D D CFour Tibbie Stinson paid off huge dividends to the tune of D T F SI 105 $17,464 the first weekend of February. Conrado had the biggest SI 113 win of her career at the Fort Worth Stock for a $14,510 paycheck SU dd E N FAME and placed third at the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo in Rapid Edd IE ST I N SO N SI 98 SI 111 City for $2,954. SIXARU N Coupled with a reserve championship at the National Western in CASI N O LI G H T S SI 106 Denver in January, Conrado leads the WPRA World Standings with SI 99 $32,767 earned at 10 rodeos. EASE ON DOW N “It was very exciting,” said Conrado, who wanted to thank her CFOUR T IBBIE ST I N SO N SI 103 parents, Kelly Conrado and Cody Doig, and Debbie Mikkleson for 2009 SORRE L FI ll Y their support, and Jess Harper for working on Tibbie before each CRO T O N GRAY run in Fort Worth. “Tibbie was a trooper.” DE L PUER T O BI ll Conrado made her first run at Fort Worth on Thursday, February 28. She and Tibbie posted a 16.77, which ended up just out of the SO L I D PL U nd ER money. LI ttl E FA N CY GRA nn Y SI 92 “I had never been there,” she said. “Everyone is really worried BU D ’S BU ll about their first NOW N IFFS FA N CY OR ld T A nd I ng S barrel there, so I 2016 W S let Tibbie pick her NOW N IFF As of Jan. 8, 2016 - Courtesy of www.wpra.com speed. She got to RI D ER /OW N ER : IVY CO N RA D O ; BREE D ER : KE ll Y T. & IVY L. CO N RA D O 1 Ivy Conrado $32,766.64 rolling and almost 2 Mary Burger $22,287.92 missed it. She got Angelo is a progressive rodeo so she won’t be getting a second run 3 Megan Swint $16,685.61 up the pen a little 4 Kelly Tovar $16,430.84 there. “From San Angelo, I drove to Amarillo, where I stopped and bit but came back tried to decide what to do (about the weather). I didn’t know if I 5 Michele Mcleod $13,396.53 around it good. She 6 Kellie Collier $13,366.18 should go through Nebraska (which ended up getting hammered had nice second and by snow storms and ground blizzards), go through Lamar or go 7 Jackie Ganter $12,766.64 really smoked the 8 Shelby Herrmann $11,386.80 to Raton (NM) and up to Pueblo. The next morning, I talked to a third. She clocked bunch of girls and everyone was going through Raton to Pueblo, so 9 Carley Richardson $11,027.33 good. It was really a 10 Shelly Anzick $9,843.81 that’s what I did.” fun run.” Given her proximity to her Hudson, Colo., home, Conrado chose 11 Andrea Busby $9,405.33 She and Tibbie 12 Jana Griemsman $8,291.26 to head to her house to let her horses out to rest. There she awaited hung out in Texas the arrival of her father, Kelly, who flew to Denver so she wouldn’t 13 Jackie Jatzlau $8,039.92 until the first go of 14 Cassidy Kruse $7,619.76 have to make the potentially treacherous drive herself. San Angelo, which “We left at 7:30 and drove all night to Rapid,” she said. “We got 15 Taylor Jacob $7,391.24 held its entire first 16 Benette Little $7,237.07 there about 3 in the morning and got the horses put up. Tibbie got round in slack on a full 12 hours of rest before the Champions Challenge.” 17 Jana Bean $7,223.82 Monday, February 1. 18 Kim Couch $7,051.12 Conrado and Tibbie were just one out of placing in the Champi- “I tipped a bar- ons Challenge. 19 Mary Walker $6,281.74 rel to win third in 20 Kimmie Wall $6,125.03 “I was in a perf the next day, while everyone else was up in slack the first round,” the next morning. So, they got to drive during the day. We actually www.BarrelRacingReport.com said Conrado. San Ft. Worth Stockshow Rodeo Continued on Page 5 IN THE NEWS .......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... Anzick tops crazy week at Fort Worth to go to the arena,” she said. “I was thinking ‘but, I hit a barrel, you guys,’ then they said best dressed. I was blown away! I’ve been Rodeo with $5,000 Jerry Ann Taylor Award to the short round three years in a row and I sure was honored to by Johna Cravens receive this award.” for the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo Anzick, who won the Fort Worth championship in 2014, still Shelly Anzick finished a wild week of ups and downs at the 2016 earned $9,065 in barrel racing checks plus the best dressed award Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo with an unexpected $5,000 check for total earnings of $14,065, about $500 less than barrel racing as winner of the Jerry Ann Taylor Best Dressed Award. champ Ivy Conrado. Only four event champions earned more than The Shepherd, Montana, cowgirl came oh-so-close to winning Anzick did at Fort Worth. her second Fort Worth championship buckle as well. The Jerry Ann Taylor Award is presented by the Women’s Profes- Anzick had the fastest time at the Saturday, January 30, matinee sional Rodeo Association and the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame performance for her first round run at the World’s Original Indoor and is only given at the National Finals Rodeo and at the finals of Rodeo®. She was the second cowgirl to run and was taking the polo the World’s Original Indoor Rodeo in Fort Worth. Taylor, a 1986 wraps off her horse Scooter (Scooten ta Fame) as the sixth runner National Cowgirl Hall of Fame honoree was a flamboyant trick finished. rider and roper who was known for her sense of style. Unbeknownst to the 2012 Fort Worth champion, a bull had Pam Minick of Fort Worth, a National Cowgirl Museum and Hall jumped out of chute 3 into the arena and ran down the alleyway of Fame board member and honoree and former WPRA vice presi- behind the sixth runner, Tyra Kane. dent, said the award is to encourage women in professional rodeo to “I was as far back in the corner of that holding pen as I could carry on the tradition of wearing colorful western attire in the rodeo get, since I was finished running,” she said. “I heard a bunch of arena. noise, looked under Scooter’s neck and that bull was coming in hot. Barrel racing has a long history with the World’s Original Indoor I’m ranch-raised so I knew to get out of the way. I jumped up on Rodeo®. The Fort Worth rodeo began holding an invitational ranch the fence, but the bull got Scooter twice.” girls barrel race in 1955, not long after barrel racing competition Several barrel racers and horses were hit by the bull, but none started. worse than Scooter. Anzick wasn’t sure how badly he was hurt and kept her horse under a vet’s watch for 24 hours. “I knew that I needed to give him as much time as possible between Prelims of world’s richest one-day rodeo runs as I could,” she said. That meant taking her second round run start Wednesday in Fort Worth Stockyards on Saturday afternoon, February 6, and, if she finished in the top This is no stock show. In fact, it’s not a typical rodeo at all. The ten, coming back that night for the finals. preliminary leg of RFD-TV’s $2 million event, THE AMERICAN, “I planned to pull him up if he didn’t seem right (during the presented by Polaris RANGER, returns to Fort Worth’s Cowtown run),” Anzick said, but Scooter made a great run of 16.55 seconds Coliseum on Feb. 17-18 with timed-event competition, and with to win the second round and put them first overall. That run was performances on Feb. 19-20 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. the fastest of the whole rodeo. The annual half-million-dollar American Semi-Finals will show- The barrel racing finished at a little after 4 p.m. and Anzick didn’t case more than 500 of America’s top ropers and riders as they battle have much time to decide what to wear that night. She got some for fewer than 50 slots in The AMERICAN, held one week later help from two-time Jerry Ann Taylor Award-winner Kendra Dick- inside AT&T Stadium.