December 18, 2018 Volume 12: Issue 51 In This Issue: • NFR Aggregate Champion, pg 5 • Holiday Classic, pg 22 • Junior NFR, pg 32 • All In Barrel Race & Futurity, pg 37 • KissMas Futurity, pg 45 Published Weekly, online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 #HailYeah – Hailey Kinsel & DM Sissy Hayday Crowned WPRA World Champions By Tanya Randall Records like to fall for Cotulla, Texas, barrel racer Hailey Kinsel. Doc’s Jack Frost Thanks in large part to her wickedly fast 7-year-old mare DM Sissy Sun Frost Hayday (“Sister”), Kinsel set a new single-year earnings record for Prissy Cline barrel racing with her $350,700 World Championship. PC Frenchmans Hayday “I think this might have been one of the toughest barrel races that I’ve ever seen,” said Kinsel. “We had such a great group in the Tiny Circus Caseys Charm SI 97 Top 15—the nicest ladies out there with incredible horses.” Her own incredible mount, Sister, was named AQHA/WPRA Casey’s Ladylove Horse of the Year and honored as the Horse With The Most Heart, by her peers. The Dillon Mundorf-bred mare, out of Royal Sissy DM Sissy Hayday Irish, by Royal Shake Em, gave her sire PC Frenchmans Hayday his 2011 Palomino Mare second WPRA World Champion. Royal Quick Dash Kinsel said she wanted to thank “all my family and friends, my vet Royal Shake Em SI 101 and my shoer, everyone that has given us a place to stay throughout SI 104 Shake Em Six the year, everyone that’s given us an encouraging word, the rodeo SI 97 fans who have kept this alive, everyone that has had Sister and my Royal Sissy Irish best interest in mind.” Lzbuddie Thats Sissy Baby SI 93 Pollylarks Hand SI 84 2018 WORLD STANDINGS & NFR EARNINGS Rider: Hailey Kinsel; Owner: Leslie & Hailey Kinsel; Breeder: Dillon Mundorf - Courtesy of www.wpra.com Season Earnings NFR Earnings Total World Earnings How The World Was Won 1 Hailey Kinsel $192,834.44 $157,865.39 $350,699.83 After Labor Day Weekend, Sister got a vacation until the first of October. The only runs she’d made prior to the WNFR were an 2 Jessica Routier $98,704.23 $153,000.00 $251,704.23 cruise-through exhibition on Thanksgiving Weekend and one run 3 Amberleigh Moore $89,126.63 $157,230.78 $246,357.41 the following weekend at a jackpot en route to Las Vegas. 4 Carman Pozzobon $86,946.59 $117,884.62 $204,831.21 With Sister having owned last year’s WNFR—setting a jaw-drop- 5 Jessie Telford $88,341.95 $113,230.77 $201,572.72 ping arena record of 13.11 and raising the NFR earnings bench- 6 Ivy Conrado $98,385.47 $98,000.01 $196,385.48 mark to $189,365—Kinsel used the first mandatory barrel practice 7 Taci Bettis $103,691.98 $87,846.15 $191,538.13 to get the mare comfortable with the set up again. 8 Nellie Miller $146,825.96 $41,307.69 $188,133.65 “Knowing that she’d been there before I just trotted and let her see everything and get relaxed in alley and everything. I mainly 9 Stevi Hillman $110,231.85 $74,519.23 $184,751.08 wanted her to relax and get comfortable with everything.” 10 Kylie Weast $101,715.00 $71,769.23 $173,484.23 As the No. 1 barrel racer going into the WNFR, Kinsel was first 11 Lisa Lockhart $123,515.19 $47,230.77 $170,745.96 gunner in the first round. With the dirt hauled in each year, it’s hard 12 Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi $137,266.54 $25,653.84 $162,920.38 to know what exactly to expect of footing. Kinsel and Sister was 13 Tammy Fischer $91,276.75 $39,615.38 $130,892.13 the best of the field with a victorious 13.51 in spite a slip at the first 14 Kelly Bruner $90,515.39 $39,192.31 $129,707.70 barrel. 15 Tracy Nowlin $90,495.80 $25,653.84 $116,149.64 With several others having ground issues in the first round, ad- justments were made to the ground. Although it wasn’t as fast as in www.BarrelRacingReport.com NFR 2018 Continued on Page 2 NFR 2018 Continued From Page 1 year’s past, it was safe. her and think she should be easy, but she’s not. We’re still figur- “They did a really good job,” she said. “Ground Zero (the ing things out. I could get really mad, but we have two rodeos the grounds crew), the WPRA and PRCA each worked together and got next two days that pay the exact same amount. You have to say, ‘I’ll it safe for us. It was good for us the rest of the time.” just come back tomorrow.’ Knowing that you can get back in the However, in typical mare fashion, Sister didn’t forget the slip in arena is a confidence booster. She needed a little tune up there.” first round and skipped a little past the first on their second run. Kinsel gave credit to her great support system for helping keep “When you have a slip, you’re going to deal with it the rest of her mental game strong. your runs,” explained Kinsel. “I felt like I had to deal with for the “My support system is awesome when it comes to making mis- next several runs because that memory was always going to be in takes,” she said. “My mom, dad, Matt, my friends Paige and Emily, her mind.” and Jess—anything about that night was mistakes happen, you can The next morning, Kinsel and Sister practiced again. That night fix it, do good tomorrow. Having that echoed in my ear was perfect. they split third with Stevi Hillman and Slick By Design in a tight There wasn’t any talk of strategy or ‘you need to do this better’ or third round. ‘you need to do that.’ It was all, ‘You know how to do this. You’ll In the fourth round, all the little bobbles in the first three rounds figure it out, and we did.” caught up with them and they picked up five at the third barrel. They erased all doubt when they won the night round in 13.40 to “My first run she slipped on the first barrel. My second run, she secure the World Championship. stumbled at the second barrel. My third run, she pulled a shoe off With the world title in hand, Kinsel opted to give Sister the night at the third barrel. With all those little things, by the fourth round off as she had nothing left to prove and the 2019 season is around she was kind of standing up, taking care of herself. I can’t blame the corner. She rode Thunder Stones, the gelding that carried her to her. Yeah, they get a little tight in that pen, but by round four I felt two the College National Finals and filled her WPRA permit a few like she was a little unsure,” Kinsel explained. years back. She also pointed out that with barrel practice every other day, you Kinsel and TJ ended up ninth in the round. The team effort fin- can’t get right back in the arena and fix immediately. ished seventh in the average for total WNFR earnings of $157,865. “You can fix in the practice pen, but it’s not the same as getting back in that arena,” she said. “I tend to do better after I’ve got to Making A Difference work in that arena.” Before she earned her title in Las Vegas, Kinsel was winning a After Monday’s practice, the duo got on a roll, splitting second in championship outside the arena. What started as a small initiative the fifth round with Kelly Bruner and French Zone and winning the off her 2017 Cinderella story turned into a worldwide study in next two rounds in 13.63 and 13.61, respectively. charitable giving of money and more importantly time. “We got back in there Monday morning and adjusted some Kinsel’s #WeCanHelp project empowers teenage girls to make a things, and letting her get back to feeling confident, feeling the difference in the world. ground and knowing its good,” Kinsel said. “The next three days, “I love helping people; it’s one of my favorite things,” said she did her thing that she normally does. With those little things Kinsel. “Right now, I’ve been given this platform and don’t totally that happened the first three rounds, I think it just took her to know what to do with it, or why people want to talk to me. I think round five to feel comfortable.” it’s kind of weird, but I feel like the best thing I can do with the “The Shirt” that Kinsel wore to win The American, set the NFR attention that I’m getting is to direct it to a greater good and better record and later win the Calgary Stampede made its appearance in cause.” the seventh round. Not surprisingly, she and Sister won that round This year, Kinsel’s #WeCanHelp initiative took applications from with a 13.61 and made an Internet sensation of her mother Leslie’s girls ages 13 to 18 who sought to be one of five team leaders for heel clicks in the alleyway. various charitable projects. Kinsel ended up with more than 450 ap- “It’s blue and white striped so I wore it on Military night to go plicants from the United States, Canada and Australia.