MARCH 18, 2014 Volume 8: Issue 11 In this issue... • D&D Futurity, pg 6 • D&D Sweepstakes, pg 14 • D&D Derby, pg 17 • Barrel Bash, pg 25 • Dynamite Barrel Race, pg 28 fast horses, fast news • Shamrock Showdown, pg 41 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Pozzi banks $119K at Diamonds & Dirt By Julie Mankin Brittany Pozzi is no stranger to situations where a staggering DASH FOR CASH amount of prize money rides on just one run – but usually not for FIRST DOWN DASH SI 114 SI 114 such a steep entry fee. Still, on March 12 at the Diamonds & Dirt FIRST PRIZ E ROS E Barrel Horse Classic Slot Race, the two-time world rodeo champion SI 98 spanked the futurity champions at their own game on a Dash Ta DASH T A FAM E SI 113 Fame filly she raised. TINY ’S GAY “She’s the mare that ran me over last fall in Omaha and stepped on SUDD E N FAM E SI 106 my finger and cut it off,” said Pozzi, who is missing the tip of the ring SI 98 finger on her right hand. “I had taken her with me to Omaha to get BAR DE ARI E her seasoned and she couldn’t see the other horses through her stall KISS KISS BANG BANG SI 90 so she was a nervous wreck all weekend. When I brought another 2010 SORR E L FILLY horse around the front of her stall, she ran me over.” FLIT BAR The wreck knocked Pozzi unconscious and sent her to the hos- DR NI ck BAR pital overnight, causing her to turn out her second run at Omaha. Now, however, one could say that “Mona” has redeemed herself. EST E T AG Pozzi turned in a time of 15.829 to win the 4-year-old slot race by CD NI ck BAR more than two-tenths of a second over Kenna Squires and Jolene PASS ‘ E M UP Montgomery (the latter of whom claimed two holes in the top 10). PASS EM SUSI E T B The win paid a cool $100,000. SI 83 “I couldn’t believe it; I was so excited,” said Pozzi, who ran eighth FUR STOL E and had to sweat out nearly the entire field of 50. “I think I was more excited about that than about winning a gold buckle. It was awesome.” RID E R /OWN E R : BRITTN E Y POZZI ; BR ee D E R : BRITTN E Y POZZI & DOUG PHARR The money will help Pozzi pay down the place she recently bought near Monument, Colo., where she plans to escape the “ri- “I just basically leave my colts with him for their whole 2-year-old diculously hot” summers of south Texas. year,” Pozzi said. “He rides them for 30 days and turns them out “I won an awesome pair of spurs and a saddle,” said Pozzi.“The and rides for another 30 days, etc. Then I started running Mona last Schillers put on a first-class event and I’m so glad I got to win it. spring when I got home and finished her when I got home again in Kristi [Schiller] sponsors me with K9s4Cops and John [Schiller] is the fall.” my sponsor via Energy XXI; plus Double J was there as one of the Pozzi said the mare is still really green, and it showed at the futu- saddle-makers, so it was really neat – I had my own cheering sec- rities in Arizona in January. But she began to show more promise tion.” in Kinder at the LG Pro Classic when Pozzi placed in a round. It Pozzi is quick to point out that a slot race is won with a lot of luck. didn’t, however, start out promising in Bryan. “Any one of those talented horses could have outrun mine at “At the Diamonds and Dirt, she warmed up terrible for the slot any time,” said Pozzi. “I’ve only ever run in four or five slot races, race,” Pozzi recalled. “I was so aggravated and I just kept loping period, so it’s still pretty nerve-wracking putting up $5,000 to make and loping her and it finally felt like she got right. Then, I knew I’d one run. And I ride for myself, so I don’t have any owners putting clocked a good time for that arena but I didn’t think there was any that money up – it’s all my own.” way it would hold through all those horses. It was the most nerve- Just turning 4, Mona is registered as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and is wracking thing to sit and wait through all 50!” by Dash Ta Fame and out of Jud Little’s mare CD Nick Bar (by Dr. On Mona, Pozzi also won the first round of the Diamonds and Nick Bar and out of a Pass Em Up daughter). Dirt Futurity and placed in the average for another $11,294. “Jud and I actually traded embryos,” Pozzi said. “He traded me a “She didn’t work as well in the short round of the futurity, but CD Nick Bar embryo for one out of my mare French Covergirl. This after I won that slot race, you couldn’t have ruined my day or my is the third baby I’ve had out of CD Nick Bar and I just love them.” weekend,” she said. “The futurity was an afterthought!” Pozzi has Paul Bass of Florida break all her colts, including Mona Pozzi rode eight horses in Bryan. She placed in the Derby on (he also broke and started Kaley Bass’ NFR gelding, Cowboy). D&D Slot Race Continued on Page 4 IN THE NEWS .......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... Stickstill Memorial Fund Deadline March 31 AQHA to halt horse cloning registration requirements she originally ordered until the appellate court rules. U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Megan Stockstill Memorial Scholarship deadline is March 31. One Robinson granted the motion in an order that also required the as- lucky high school senior cowboy and one lucky high school senior sociation to continue developing new rules to eventually provide for cowgirl involved with rodeo or barrel racing will each get a $7,500 registering cloned quarter horses. scholarship. For more information or to apply visit www.charitys- Citing concerns about costly upgrades to its computer system, mith.org/megan-danielle-stockstill-memorial-fund/ AQHA asked Robinson to delay the registration requirement while Megan Danielle Stockstill, 29 of Sandy Hook MS passed away it appeals the Amarillo court’s rulings. In July, Amarillo jurors on September 16, 2013 one week after the giving birth to her and determined that top AQHA officials violated Texas and federal anti- Talmadge’s first child, Sterling. Megan quietly passed away from a trust laws by conspiring to bar cloned horses from the association’s blood clot while at home. registry. Megan was a member of Good Hope Baptist Church of Purvis. - See more at: http://stallionesearch.com/default.asp?section=6 She was President of Team Talmadge, and a Member of NBHA, &story=14345#sthash.VH46Wzcl.dpuf BBR, WPRA and many other Equestrian Barrel Racing Associations. Megan was an Accomplished Barrel Racer, and avid Race Horse Owner. Megan found her Passion with Young people and was most Champions Emerge In Rodeo Austin apparent when you saw the young riders of Team Talmadge and The world’s top rodeo athletes competed in Rodeo Austin’s All abroad all achieve their goals! Star Series, and tonight, the best prevailed. World champion Kaycee Field walked away with the title in bare- back riding this evening. “I feel great. This is a big win for me right now,” Field said. “This Court Grants AQHA More rodeo is a good one. They play great music that pumps contestants up, and they’ve got the best stock.” Time In Cloned HorsesCase In steer wrestling, K.C. Jones’ time of 3.5 enabled him to walk The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has away with the win. granted the American Quarter Horse Association’s request for addi- Team roping duo Dustin Bird and Paul Eaves have been roping tional time to answer a request from cloned horse owners to set oral partners for three years and said they have been faring well at most arguments in the their appeal of a court ruling ordering it to register rodeos this year. cloned quarter horses and their offspring. “We came into Rodeo Austin feeling good and confident that we Attorneys for cloned horse owners Jason Abraham and Gregg had a shot to win it,” Bird said. “It couldn’t have been better here at Veneklasen asked the New Orleans-based court last month to set Rodeo Austin. We had good steers and roped them well.” oral arguments in the case. The AQHA now has until March 24 to Saddle bronc riding proved to be a fierce competition, resulting in respond to the horse owners’ legal brief, according to information a tie for first between Ryan MacKenzie and Tyrel Larson. from the high court. “I had to hustle to keep up with my bronc tonight, but it turned Last year, Abraham and Veneklasen prevailed in their suit against out well,” MacKenzie said. “I like Rodeo Austin, and I can’t wait to the AQHA, seeking to register their cloned horses and overturn the be back next year.” association’s Rule 227a, which has barred cloned horses from the After 19 years, Justin Maass finally walked away with the win in AQHA registry since 2004.