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3 © The official publication of the Ranch Sorting National Championships March-April 2010 Wanted Coming to rsnc.us in 2010... dead OR aLive The Official Ranch Sorting Hall of Fame! Do you have what it takes to be recognized among the all time best Ranch Sorters to ever slide a boot into a stirrup? The first class of outstanding cowboys & cowgirls along with their horses will receive the honor of having their legacy enshrined side by side with other RSNC GREATS! ReWaRd: GLORY hall of fame Inside ... — 2010 RSNC Finals Schedule Inside — RSNC on RFD TV! — RSNC Hall of Fame...Here’s Your Chance 2 ~ The Ranch Sorter March-April 2010 What’s Inside . From the President RSNC Members Forum.............................................. 5 Dave Wolfe RSNC President Fellowship of Christian Cowboys ............................. 5 Spring is in the air and Ranch Sorters, at least in our part of Wow! Do We Have Some Fun Things Planned the country, have some serious cabin fever. We are all itching to For You At the 2010 RSNC National Finals! .............. 6 get out and have some sorting fun. The great news is we have one Free Night Stay on RSNC ................................... 7 producers ready to put them on. Did you know it is only March and we have already scheduled within 20 shows of the record More Prizes For You! ................................................. 7 269 shows that we had last year! The 2010 points race that just Class Signup ............................................................. 7 started in January is giving many contestants a lot of incentive Hill & Billy .................................................................. 8 to get out there and qualify for the State Championships Year End Finals that will be offered to the top producer in each state. These state finals will be big events that will Jimdavisphoto.com .................................................. 8 bring contestants together from all over their state to celebrate the sport and ring in the New Year! 2010 RSNC National Finals Schedule ....................... 9 We keep pushing each one of you to introduce new contestants to our sport and it is working! We are Lithia, Florida Event ................................................ 10 definitely being noticed because we are one of the few equine groups that is growing in this tough economy. Our Ranch Sorting is Growing in Las Vegas ................. 11 organization is sky rocketing while others are suffering. RSNC has momentum and the snow ball effect of this great growth is taking hold. We are attracting attention for some world renowned clinicians that may be willing Rapid City, South Dakota Event .............................. 11 to offer educational clinics and demonstrations at our National Finals. I look forward to bringing you more Linked D Cowhorses Event ..................................... 14 details on this in the next issue of the Ranch Sorter. RFD TV is taking notice and is agreeing to film our sorting Upcoming Events .................................................... 17 clinics and event at Colorado State University this month. This is the event that last year attracted 92 brand new 2009-10 Sort for the Saddle Point Standings ........ 18 contestants to RSNC clinics. This will be a great celebration of our sport and I encourage anyone who can, to come celebrate with us. We will be sure to let you know when it will be aired on the Ride with Aaron Ralston. If 2009-10 State Race Point Standings ..................... 19 we don’t have your email send it today so we can do an email blast to everyone. Youth Points Race ................................................... 20 Plans are coming along great for the National Finals in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Within this magazine is the High Point Rocky Mountain Jeans Winners ........... 20 schedule of events. The big change for this year is that we will be offering a Wednesday night finals of the first 3 days and a Raymondville, Texas Event ..................................... 21 Saturday night finals for the RSNC has momentum and last 3 days. This will give a few more Haiti Relief Raffle .................................................... 22 an opportunity to attend the snowball effect of this that may not be able to come for Hey Ranch Sorters! ................................................. 22 the full week. But be sure great growth is taking hold. to remember that National Finals awards will be based on points earned through out the entire week. Stall reservations and RV reservations are now being taken so please get them in soon. On the cover . The fun activities that are planned for this year’s Finals will be out of this world. We have cookouts, karaoke, RSNC is unveiling the OFFICIAL Ranch Sorting “HALL house boat rides, casino trips and even a trolley ride thru town for shopping if that floats your boat. The 3rd OF FAME.” This includes the STATE EXTRAVAGANZA arena will be designated as the fun arena and each day there will be fun activities like extreme trail, gymkhana WINNERS AT THE NATIONAL FINALS; each winning events, states tug of wars, team penning and some cow catch competitions. These events will be done at your member from each rating category from each state at the New Years Weekend Finals; The state high money winner leisure while you are in between your Ranch Sorting runs. What’s more, we plan to do them in age brackets so for the year from each state and the high money horse for all of us young and old can play! the year from each state will additionally be enshrined into Masters riders, be sure to check out the Masters class. We are adding an incentive of 130 and over for the the Ranch Sorting HALL OF FAME. Don’t miss this op- Masters of all Masters. This class will be huge! Come get in it. portunity to be the first inducted and recognized for your To say the least this year’s RSNC National Finals is scheduled to be a spectacular event that you won’t want to accomplishments and legacy... miss. Win, lose, or draw, we guarantee you will have every chance possible to have FUN! Last, I want to thank all of our producers who are using the new RSNC Ranch Sorting Software. Many Published by the contestants have already commented on how fast we can now get the results and points to the web site. Ranch Sorting National Championships That is because those producers don’t have to worry about all the paper work after a show. They can send it National Headquarters automatically to our office. Once again the software has many advantages for producers and the office but a huge P.O. Box 1 • Wellington, CO 80549 advantage for you as contestants is the opportunity to track $ won on horses. We have created a RSNC Hall of Phone: (970) 897-2901 • Fax: (970)897-2921 E-mail: [email protected] • www.rsnc.us Fame and starting April 1st thru the end of this year we will track all horses entered into the data base at shows Dave Wolfe, RSNC President and will enshrine those top horses from each state! RSNC will continue to look for ways to improve the software Layout & Design by EDJE Technologies • (866) 839-3353 and services to producers and to you our valued RSNC members. THE RANCH SORTER Issue 13 March April 2010 is published 6 times annually for $10 per year by the Ranch Sorting National Championships, 6338 Weld County Road Welcome to Spring! 98, Wellington, CO 80549. Periodicals postage pending at Wellington, CO, and ad- ditional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Ranch Sorting National Championships, PO Box 1, Wellington, CO 80549. 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I have been sorting for many see what number my teams RSNC would like to welcome the Fellowship Lisa, years at RSNC events as well were which was nice as my of Christian Cowboys on board as a partner Thanks for the compliment as other ranch sorting shows. daughter and I share the same to promote Christianity within our sport and on being in the lead, I’m going I just wanted to let you know horse. We knew who needed RSNC events. We look forward to providing to make it to a Ponca City that I am very impressed to be on the horse next.