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Pete Oen & Monica Mcclung's Perksof Being Famous Sweep APRIL 17, 2018 Volume 12: Issue 16 In This Issue: • Barrel Bash & Trans West Futurity, pg 19 • D&D Super Tour, pg 24 • Pro Rodeos & World Standings, pg 29 fast horses, fast news • The Panty Raid Futurity, pg 41 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Pete Oen & Monica McClung’s PerksOf Being Famous Sweep VGBRA Barrel Daze Futurities By Tanya Randall Million-dollar rider Pete Oen of Ardmore, Oklahoma, captured ASH OR ASH IRST OWN ASH D F C three futurity wins in a row with a clean sweep of the Valley Girls F D D SI 114 SI 101 Barrel Racing Association’s Barrel Daze with Monica McClung’s FIRST PRIZE ROSE PerksOf Being Famous (“Layla”). Oen and Layla topped both the DASH TA FAME SI 98 Open and Stallion Incentive Program (SIP) futurities at the 40th SI 113 Annual event, held April 13-15 in Walla Walla, Washington, for TINY’S GAY $12,616. SUDDEN FAME SI 106 SI 98 “I didn’t need to do anything but ask her to go fast,” said Oen of BAR DEARIE the talented 4-year-old mare. “She’s way like an ace rodeo horse. She SI 90 has a lot of rate and wants to turn like all of Monica’s seem to be. PERKSOF BEING FAMOUS There’s no doubt that Monica taught her to run barrels. Monica is 2014 BAY FILLY known for training good, solid horses and several people have rid- SUN FROST den behind her and been able to win. I’ve just been the jockey.” FRENCHMANS GUY Bred by Busby Quarter Horses in Millsap, Texas, Layla is by all- FRENCHMAN’S LADY time leading barrel horse sire Dash Ta Fame out of French Lady Perks, a daughter of Frenchmans Guy out of the great Dash For FRENCH LADY PERKS Perks mare Lady Perks. DASH FOR PERKS McClung, a barrel horse trainer and rancher from May, Okla., pur- LADY PERKS SI 93 chased the filly as a 2-year-old and started her competitive career as FOLS DEbbIE a 3-year-old, earning a check in the BFA Juvenile. A busy schedule SI 96 was going to keep McClung from making the Kinder Cup. Layla RIDER: PETE OEN; OWNER: MONICA MCCLUNG; BREEDER: BUSBY QUARTER HORSES LLC was entered in the slot race, so McClung hauled the mare to Oen, who was running horses at the Fort Worth Stock Show. mare’s style. “She’s not going to drop a shoulder on you, but she’s Oen rode Layla once late one night at the Fort Worth and got to really setty and wants to turn. She’s not cheat-y at all. You just go as cruise her through the pattern. His exhibition before the slot race in fast and as hard as you can the entire run.” Kinder was just the second time he’d been on her. At their first futurity in the Northwest—the Sand Cup Futurity in “I asked Monica what I needed to do, and she told me that when Moses Lake—Oen caught a barrel in the first round to place really I warm her up that I wanted her to feel like she wants to run off,” high but came back to place in the second round. He said he was he chuckled. “‘Smooch her up and get her on her toes. When she actually happy they got the knocked barrel out of the way before feels like she wants to run off and is pulling into the bridle, she’s heading into the lucrative Barrel Daze, which is held on an extreme- ready.’ I was like ‘Okay…’ That’s pretty different from most of ly short course. them that you want quiet and sneak up on the alley and go. Her “I honestly thought it was kind of going to be her thing,” Oen you’ve got to get jazzed up and when they open the gate, you go as said of the Barrel Daze setup, where high 13-second runs usually hard as you can go.” set the bar in the Open races. “I know she can run long distance be- Since he first climbed on the mare, Oen has won more than cause she won a go at Diamonds & Dirt, but I also think that small, $22,000 on Layla prior to the Northwest Futurity Run. They were quick, snappy, turn, turn, turn again kind of thing is right down her the reserve champions in the BFA Futurity at the Kinder Cup alley as well. I was looking forward to running her in there because ($5,944) and were third in the Slot Consolation ($5,000). They were I know she’s turny and she’s never running by something. seventh at The Patriot ($1,867) and finished 16th at Diamonds & “I was a little a concerned about making two clean runs in there, Dirt after winning the second round ($9,413). but I just kept going forward. I never thought about asking her to “She’s honest, but really setty,” said Oen, expounding on the VGBRA Continued on Page 5 IN THE NEWS.......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... in Belle Fourche, S.D. Not only can the rodeo now boast being an ProRodeo Hall of Fame 2018 Induction Class inductee to the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, but this year will also be its Team roping stars Speed Williams and Rich Skelton had no 99th annual competition. equals from 1997-2004, as each won eight consecutive PRCA world The Black Hills Roundup started when 15,000 people gathered in championships. a field in Belle Fourche to raise money for World War I in 1918. At Now, the duo will be immortalized in rodeo history. the time, the population of Belle Fourche was 1,410. Williams and Skelton headline the 10-member 2018 induction class The next year marked the first time the rodeo took place. for the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. The ceremony takes place Aug. 4 “The board and committee put a lot of time and effort into it,” at the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo. Black Hills Roundup Chairman Clay Crago said. “It’s pretty special Williams and Skelton join gold buckle-winner Deb Greenough to us to see the recognition and get into the Hall of Fame.” (bareback riding, 1993), contract personnel recipient Leon Coffee, The big number of people to attend continues today, with an esti- stock contractor Billy Minick, rodeo notable Walt Garrison and the mated 10,000-15,000 attending a parade during rodeo week in the committee for the Black Hills Roundup in Belle Fourche, S.D., as town of about 6,000. the PRCA inductees. With the 2018 class included, the ProRodeo Hall of Fame will For the second time in the history of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame have enshrined 267 people, 34 animals and 29 rodeo committees. - 2017 being the first - barrel racers from the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) will be among the class of induct- ees, and their class includes Kristie Peterson, Billie McBride and a WatchmeSports Back in the Arena WPRA equine inductee, French Flash Hawk (Bozo). This spring of 2018, WatchmeSports will return with a new In addition to the 10 inductees, former PRCA Chief Operating subscription-based business model for streaming live sporting Officer Kay Bleakly will receive the Ken Stemler Pioneer Award, events. With a new integrated phone app and event management which honors individuals in recognition of their groundbreaking, software for producers, contestants are able to register online and innovative ideas and forward thinking. view draws, standing and results. For $9 a month, contestants can Peterson, a four-time world champion, and her great horse now pay online and get paid online. Winnings are transferred di- French Flash Hawk, better known as Bozo, will fittingly go into the rectly into contestant’s bank accounts by ACH. The entirely online Hall together. Following on the heels of Charmayne James and her and cashless system limits opportunities for theft and human error great horse, Scamper, it was Peterson and Bozo that ended James’ while the event management and accounting pieces assist in the streak of 10 straight world titles, capturing their first of four world smooth operation of any size competition. Also, coming very soon, titles in 1994. producers will be able to stream each contestant’s run live over the Although Peterson and Bozo were not successful in defending WatchmeSports website and app. Family, friends and relatives will their title in 1995, the duo would return to the top of the sport in be able to watch live or recorded streams from their own mobile 1996 and then win three straight. devices. “How wonderful ... that is just awesome,” Peterson said upon The WatchmeSports event management software has the ability learning the news of the induction honor. “I feel very honored and to produce just about any kind of sporting event, however, the humbled. To go in with Bozo is definitely the carrot on top. I am company is re-focusing its efforts on Barrel Racing. The Watchme- just speechless.” Sports event management software for producers, called QuickPay, When asked how it felt to follow James and Scamper, both in the now enables producers to run their entire events in a completely arena and now into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, Peterson simply integrated way with the occasional press of a button. Quickpay said, “Being in the shadow of Scamper is a great place to be.” allows producers to download online registrations from contestants McBride joins Peterson and Bozo in the Hall as another four- who registered through their WatchmeSports app.
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