Hailey Kinsel & DM Sissy Hayday Win Ponoka Stampede
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July 2, 2019 Volume 13: Issue 27 In This Issue: • Reno Pro Rodeo, pg 11 • Pro Rodeos, pg 18 • American Qualifiers #4, #5 & #6, pg 29 • July Explosion, pg 30 • Abilene Super Show, pg 32 Published Weekly, online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Saving Their Best for Last – Hailey Kinsel & DM Sissy Hayday Win Ponoka Stampede By Tanya Randall Hailey Kinsel and her million dollar mare DM Sissy Hayday Doc’s Jack Frost (“Sister”) saved their best run for last to win the Showdown and Sun Frost claim the barrel racing championship at the $50,000-added Ponoka Prissy Cline Stampede, held June 25-July 1 in Alberta, Canada. Pc Frenchmans Hayday It was the 2018 WPRA World Champion Barrel Racers first Tiny Circus trip to Canada for any other rodeos besides the Calgary Stampede, Caseys Charm SI 97 which she won last year. Caseys Ladylove “I’ve been wanting to go to Ponoka,” said the Cotulla, Texas, cowgirl. “I entered last year, but I didn’t get to go. I thought she would really like it. She ran really free out there.” DM Sissy Hayday Running in the first performance, Kinsel and Sister took an early 2011 Palomino Mare lead with a 17.511, Royal Quick Dash which held until the Royal Shake Em SI 101 very last performance WPRA WORLD STANDINGS SI 104 Shake Em Six Courtesy of www.wpra.com - unofficial - as of 7/1/19 when Emily Miller Royal Sissy Irish SI 97 and Namgis D 33 *These standings do not reflect all completed rodeos at press time. 1 Nellie Miller $89,229.93 17 Lazbuddie (“Chongo”) blasted Thats Sissy Baby SI 93 a 17.240 to take the 2 Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi $68,569.40 31 round win. 3 Hailey Kinsel $66,877.30 23 Pollylarks Hand SI 84 The top 12 fastest 4 Shali Lord $60,679.69 23 Rider: Hailey Kinsel; Owner: Hailey & Leslie Kinsel; Breeder: Dillon Mundorf time from the per- 5 Lisa Lockhart $57,484.65 17 formances advance 6 Jennifer Sharp $53,721.72 51 to a Final on July 1. in the WPRA World Standings until the following week.) While all 12 would 7 Stevi Hillman $53,718.64 38 Kinsel and Sister, an 8-year-old daughter of three-time WPRA get an average check, 8 Ericka Nelson $49,981.71 31 World Champion Sire PC Frenchmans Hayday out of the Royal the top four in on 9 Jimmie Smith $49,374.03 38 Shake Em mare Royal Sissy Irish, were fourth in the Finals with a two runs advanced 10 Dona Rule $46,072.64 31 17.526 and finished third in the aggregate. Joining Miller and Kinsel in the Shootout were 2012 WPRA World Champions Mary Walker to a Shootout for the 11 Jessica Routier $45,848.50 21 rodeo championship. and Perculatin and Canadian Jenna O’Reilly and her 14-year-old 12 Jessica Telford $41,335.24 24 Dual Rey gelding Xray. Miller again set 13 Jill Wilson $40,949.03 42 the pace in the Finals In the Showdown, Kinsel and Sister posted their fastest run, a with a 17.342 to 14 Emily Miller $40,321.62 37 17.359, to collect the $7,500 Shootout style victory and a $16,877 sweep both rounds 15 Lacinda Rose $38,464.78 35 rodeo championship. and the aggregate. 16 Ivy Conrado $38,138.60 14 “I’m really grateful for the effort put into the rodeos up here and Ultimately, they ended 17 Leia Pluemer $37,166.05 39 how kind everybody is,” she said. “We had a great group of girls. The Ponoka short round was stacked. The shootout was pretty awe- up pocketing $14,954 18 Jackie Ganter $35,482.56 39 to make a significant some. It was a really great trip and I’m glad I did it. I will definitely 19 Teri Bangart $35,183.31 30 have Ponoka and those others on my list to come back to.” move in the standings. 20 Cheyenne Wimberley $34,759.37 37 (Note: The Canadian She said the format of the rodeo, which gave barrel racers an rodeos won’t show up www.BarrelRacingReport.com opportunity for money on every run, was part of its appeal. Ponoka Stampede Continued on Page 5 IN THE NEWS.......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... on him.” Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo - Still in progress She led the top five into the Reno Rodeo that night and roped last. Her longtime July 10-13, 2019, Colorado Springs, CO nemesis, fellow world champ Lari Dee Guy of Abilene, Texas, was leading for the Barrel racing: First round: $1,000 with a 3.9-second run when Crawford thrilled the crowd with a 3.8 to win the 1 Ericka Nelson, 17.48, $1,911 prize. 1 Ronnie Will, 17.48, $1,911 Prior to the Charlie 1 Horse Breakaway, Wrangler BFI Week presented by Yeti had 3 Shelley Morgan, 17.49, $1,365 kicked off in Reno on June 22, and was anchored by the 42nd Annual Bob Feist 4 Jana Bean, 17.51, $1,183 Invitational (BFI) on June 24. One of the main highlights of the week was the Charlie 5 Leia Pluemer, 17.54, $910 1 Horse All-Girl Challenge team roping. Annually the richest open all-female roping in 5 Kelly Yates, 17.54, $910 the country, it was live-streamed on www.wranglernetwork.com 7 Cheyenne Wimberley, 17.63, $546 A pair of Navajo “sisters” made the 12-hour drive from Arizona to Reno to out-rope 8 Dona Kay Rule, 17.64, $364 nearly 160 teams in that event by just one-hundredth of a second to earn $26,000 9 Maddy Dickens, 17.65, $273 cash and BFI Week’s legendary prizeline. 10 Sally Conway, 17.66, $182 Debbie Robbins of Winslow and Danielle Lowman of Mesa, both No. 5 ropers, roped their first three steers in 24.58 seconds to lead the pack into the short round by almost What to Watch For This week: two seconds. Despite a penalty on the fourth steer, they squeaked into first place in ProRodeoTV.com the aggregate on four over Alabama’s Beverly Robbins and Jesse Remsburg. Beverly Cody (Wyo.) Stampde, July 1-4, 8 p.m. (MT) Robbins (no relation to Debbie), also placed fourth with another partner to earn a World’s Oldest Rodeo, Prescott, Ariz., July 1-3, 7:30 p.m. (PT); July 4, 1:30 p.m. (PT); Reno total of $9,688. July 5, 7:30 p.m. (PT); July 6, 1:30 p.m. (PT); 7:30 p.m. (PT) “I wanted that buckle here,” said Debbie Robbins. “And I’m going to ride that saddle.” Oakley (Utah) Independence Day Rodeo, July 3-6, 8 p.m. (MT) She and Lowman share a grandmother and grew up about 45 minutes away from Wranglernetwork.com each other. Ponoka Stampede, July 1, 6:30 p.m. (PT) “Before we came out here, I told her, this time let’s not practice as hard as we usu- Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, July 2-3, 7 p.m. (MT) ally do,” said Lowman, 26, a four-time Indian National Finals Rodeo qualifier. “‘Let’s go St. Paul (Ore.) PRCA Rodeo, July 4-5, 7:30 p.m. (PT) over there and just win it all and come back.’” Debbie Robbins, then, didn’t rope at all in the week leading up to the event. She 8Secondsradio.com with Steve Kenyon grew up roping sheep at her grandmother’s house on the Navajo reservation. Since Livingston (Mont.) Roundup, July 2-4, 8 p.m. (MT) then, she’s become an Indian National Finals Rodeo breakaway champion and the Mesquite (Texas) Championship Rodeo, July 6, 7:30 p.m. (CT) 2007 WPRA world all-around champion. “I’d say our practice runs worked out pretty well here today,” Debbie said. “This is a Cowgirl earns $17,450, event featured at Reno Rodeo good roping – all the tough girls are here.” Because of the Charlie 1 Horse All-Girl Challenge in Reno, Nevada, this year during Danielle sometimes works in construction and competes in rodeos for a living, while Wrangler BFI Week, breakaway ropers were showcased for the first time ever June 27 Debbie takes care of her dad and rides and trains several horses a day. She practices on during a performance of the “Wildest, Richest Rodeo in the West.” Corriente cattle that she and her brothers and cousins raise and contract to rodeos. The PRCA’s Reno Rodeo celebrated its 100th anniversary this year as one of North “BFI Week in Reno is a great place to have an all-girl roping,” said Mary Jane Carpen- America’s most prestigious events, crowding events in San Antonio and Fort Worth, ter, marketing director for Charlie 1 Horse’s parent company, Hatco. “Girls’ breakaway Texas; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Pendleton, Oregon as one of the six richest regular- and team roping just keeps growing. We love being part of it. The hats have become so season venues in the sport. On June 27, the top five from Wrangler BFI Week’s 2019 fashionable outside the arena, with celebrities like Runaway June being fans, that it’s Charlie 1 Horse event at the same venue roped in that night’s Reno Rodeo for a fun to see them worn in the arena, too.” winner-take-all cash prize of $1,000 put up by Hooey Brands and the Reno Rodeo just In 2017, Ullman-Peterson Events expanded the annual All-Girl team roping to after the tie-down roping.