DECEMBER 17, 2013 Volume 7: Issue 50 In this issue... • BFA Juvenile, pg 12 • BFA Futurity, pg 16 • BFA Derby, Open & Juniors, pg 24 • Future Fortunes - BFA, pg 31 fast horses, fast news • 2013 NFR Facts & Figures, pg 34 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 One for the Record Books—Sherry Cervi Earns Fourth WPRA World Championship By Tanya Randall “Overwhelming,” was how Sherry Cervi described her fourth DO C ’S JA C K FROST WPRA World Championship. She won her first with “Troubles” in SUN FROST 1995 and her second came with Count Jet (“Hawk”) in 1999. Cervi PRISSY CLINE and her great mare, MP Meter My Hay (“Stingray”) won their first PC FREN C H M ANS HAY D AY title together in 2010 and were able to maintain her pre-Wrangler National Finals Rodeo lead throughout the 10 grueling rounds in TINY CIR C US the tiny confines of the Thomas & Mack Center. CASEYS CHAR M SI 97 Cervi and Stingray became the first horse and rider duo to place in every round at the WNFR since four-time World Champion CASEY ’S LA D YLOVE Kristie Peterson and the great French Flash Hawk (“Bozo”) did in MP METER MY HAY 1997. 2002 PALO M INO MARE Incidentally, Stingray’s sire PC Frenchmans Hayday—also an COUNT JET NFR average money earner—is a full brother to Bozo. Her dam BAR T ONTO JET SI 96 Miss Meter Jet, by Bar Tonto Jet, is a three-quarter sister to Hawk. When asked how she left Vegas with a World title, the NFR Cham- LEA P BAR pionship, a new 10-run average record (138.15 to Jill Moody and MISS METER JET TR Dashing Badger’s 138.26 in 2010), the Ram Top Gun Truck ROYAL CHARGE for winning the most money of any contestant at the WNFR MISS METER CHARGE SI 95 ($155,899) and setting a new single event season’s earnings record at $303,317, she said simply “I’ve got a really cool horse.” MISS METER DE C K They jumped out to a quick start by winning the first round. RI D ER : SHERRY CERVI ; OWNER : MEL POTTER ; BREE D ER : GENE STRI C KLAN D “That was really cool,” beamed Cervi. “It’s not that I didn’t think she could, but she went in there all business. She’s getting so much skimmed closer and closer to the cans, Cervi never weakened. more solid as she gets older and it doesn’t take as many runs to get “I knew I needed to keep placing in the rounds,” said the 38-year- in the groove.” old barrel racer from Marana, Ariz. “It wasn’t like I needed to place With all the money up for grabs in each round, Cervi has always in all 10 rounds, but I needed to go as fast as I could. Obviously, I gone into the WNFR thinking of the rodeo as 10 one-run rodeos. knew I needed to stay tough in the average. It never really changed. Even as the rodeo progressed and it seemed as though Stingray NFR 2013 Continued on Page 4 Bauserman Returns, Notches First $100K Win By Julie Mankin a time of 15.718 to edge Troy Crumrine by just .013 for the huge It’s been 15 years since Cody Bauserman won his first futurity, win. and there’s virtually nothing in that industry the 41-year-old trainer “It happened to be real close,” Bauserman admitted. “All I try to hasn’t won – except a $100,000 slot race. do is make the best run possible. I’ve run at these things so many After taking a year away from barrels to venture into training years, it’s best not to worry about what’s winning; just make your thoroughbred racehorses, he returned Dec. 10-14 to not only win best run and let the chips fall where they fall.” the BFA Super Stakes, but do it on his own horse with his own slot Two years ago, Bauserman had purchased Promise Me A Wagon – which means keeping every last one of the $100,000 for himself. and his embryo brother as yearlings from Stacy Charette-Hill out of In a field of 50 horses all making the first competitive run of her mare, Pie Sky Promises. While the yearlings’ daddy, PYC Paint their lives, he rode his 3-year-old colt, Promise Me A Wagon, to BFA SuperStakes Continued on Page 2 BFA SuperStakes From Page 1 Your Wagon, is a leading sire in Quarter horse racing with a stud OLLAN D ASE fee of $15,000, Bauserman could have cared less. He bought them ORONA ARTEL H E C C SI 109 solely because of their dam. SI 97 “That mare is phenomenal,” Bauserman said. “There’s no better CORONA CHI C K mare in the industry.” PY C PAINT Y OUR W AGON SI 113 Pie Sky Promises had earned more than $30,000 on her own in SI 107 the barrel pen before producing superstars and being named 2004 STRAW F LY Spc IAL SI 97 Broodmare of the Year. Some of her legendary get include futurity DASHIN FOLLIES standouts No Questions No Lies and Promises To Dash. And DASHING FOLLY seven years ago, Alona James won the same $100,000 Super Stakes PRO M ISE ME A W AGON SI 108 on 3-year-old Promise Me A Title. Charette-Hill has since sold Pie Sky Promises, now 24, to a 2010 BROWN GEL D ING Brazilian breeding program, but she kept a 2-year-old stallion out of EASY JET SI 100 her named Promise Me Pyc that’s lighting up the racetrack. PIE IN THE SKY SI 101 As for Bauserman, he’s having flashbacks to the success he had MISS JELLY ROLL on the half-brother, Promises To Dash, who won both Speedhorses PIE SKY PRO M ISES and much more in 2004. SI 85 “I called him Squirrel, and I call this one Possum,” he said of BUGS A LIVE IN 75 Promise Me A Wagon. “He just acts real quiet like he’s asleep and JOYOUS BUG SI 94 then all of a sudden he’ll wake up and do something out of the SI 95 JOYOUS EX C HANGE ordinary. He’s built a lot like Squirrel but is more like a rope horse T B with a wide front end and a big old butt like he’s 10 years old. He’s RI D ER :/OWNER : CO D Y BAUSER M AN ; BREE D ER : DOROTHY CHARETTE really mature for his age. I don’t know if it looks like it yet and there are still a few things this colt is figuring out, but it sure feels like he 10 br. g. Pyc Paint Your Wagon-Pie Sky Promises, Pie In The Sky works like Squirrel.” 2 Dashin Czar, Troy Crumrine, Kati Jacobs/Leasee - Matt & Bendi Possum went on to place in the first round of the juvenile Dunn, 15.731, $35,000 futurity. His twin brother is actually faster, Bauserman said, which 10 bay f. Tres Seis-Dashin La Jolla, Streakin La Jolla gets him into trouble being only 3, so he’s bringing him along more 3 Streakin Easily, Jolene Montgomery, Dale Rankin, 15.846, $23,000 slowly. The Ohio native from Sallisaw, Okla., is also running a 10 b. f. Dashin Is Easy-Streakinlikaglass, Streakin La Jolla couple of Bully Bullion colts this year. 4 Famousfirewater Anny, Chris Coffey, Shoppa Rnach, LLC/Leasee “I’ll pick and choose where I go and spend more time on the - Shoppa Ranch/Blackwell, 15.941, $15,000 thoroughbreds now,” he said. “In 2012, I needed to take a break. I 10 s. f. Dash Ta Fame-Fire Water Fanny, Fire Water Flit needed to give my body a break; it was just beat up. I did it for my 5 Cashin N On Fame, Kassie Mowry, Guy Lamarche/Leasee - own self. I needed barrel racing to be fun again.” Kassie Mowry, 15.949, $12,500 Nothing’s more fun than winning $100,000, but Bauserman still 10 s. f. Dash Ta Fame-Cashin Memories, Dash for Cash said his primary emotion was relief more than excitement. 6 Llp Streakin Moon, Brett Monroe, Terri & Jimmy Wiggins, “Pretty much all I had left to do in barrel racing is win one of 16.005, $10,000 these $100,000 races,” he said. “It’s been a long journey trying to get 10 b. g. Streakin Again-Rowdy Moon Gal, Cosettas Rowdy one. You even wear yourself out. Doing this on my own horse with 7 Scamper To Dat Cash, Janae Massey, Jud Little, 16.043, $7,500 my own money all by myself is more exciting than actually winning 10 s. g. Clayton-Desierita Juno, Juno Dat Cash the $100,000. I did it on my own.” 8 Ur Whiskey Chaser, Jana Bean, Breck & Jana Bean, 16.058, $6,500 While Bauserman is the first to admit barrel racing has been very 10 ch. g. Dash Ta Fame-Denas Dividend, Lanes Leinster good to him, he is simply more into claiming and training racehors- 9 Famous Moon Cheyn, Cheyenne Wimberly, KC Quarter Horses/ es now. Leasee - Cheyenne Wimberly, 16.081, $5,500 “I’ll run barrels the rest of my days,” he said. “I just want to do it 10 s. f. Dash Ta Fame-Six Moon Suz, Marthas Six Moons on my own terms.” 10 A Streak Of Blond, Cassie Ward, Going Big Time Sales Co., Inc, 16.119, $5,000 BFA World Championships Super$takes 10 pal.