JANUARY 10, 2017 Volume 11: Issue 2 In this issue... • Classic Equine Futurity, pg 18 • No Bull, Jacksonville, FL, pg 29 • CO vs. The World, Denver, CO, pg 37 fast horses, fast news • Fame Fling N Bling, pg 42 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Hall & Dreaming Of Foose Sweep Isabella Quarter Horses Futurity & Ultimate Texas Barrel Classic Slot Futurity By Tanya Randall Dreaming Of Foose (“Cali”) has come a long way from an ORONA ARTEL unbroke, unraced 2-year-old and started 3-year-old that garnered no TEL ORONA C C S C SI 96 interest as a potential futurity contender to a $26,000 champion. SI 105 The 4-year-old brown mare and her owner and trainer Sharin Hall OUR LI P S A RE SEALE D of Oklahoma City topped both the Isabella Quarter Horses Futu- FOOSE rity and Ultimate Texas Barrel Classic Slot Futurity in Edna, Texas, SI 102 ROYAL QUICK DASH Jan. 5-8. The slot race victory was worth $15,000, while the futurity SU mm ERTI M E QUICKIE SI 101 win paid $9,592 in the $30,000-added event. SI 94 “I bought her sight-unseen off of Barrel Horse World,” laughed SU mm ERTI M E HIGH Hall. “I bought her off a picture—her conformation first and DREA M ING OF FOOSE SI 84 papers second. I told myself that I wanted something so fast that if 2013 BAY FILLY I made mistake she was still going to clock, and that’s what I got.” FIRST DOWN DASH After purchasing the unbroke 2-year-old by AQHA Racing Cham- SI 105 pion Foose out of Hawks Dream Girl, by Hawkinson, from her HAWKINSON breeders Childers Ranch, LLC, of Templeton, Calif., Hall couldn’t SI 99 OH LA PROU D find the filly a ride to Oklahoma. HAWKS DREA M GIRL SI 91 “I thought, ‘Shoot! I better start trying to find someone to get SI 95 AP OLLO her broke in California!’” she said. “So, I called around and got MILLION DREA M S T B some references and that’s how I met Devon Clinton. I had her vet- SI 81 ted and he went and picked her up and rode her for 60 days. Then, JAZZING DREA M S he found a ride for her for me. I made a great friend and he did an SI 97 RI D ER /OWNER : SHARIN HALL ; BREE D ER : CHIL D ERS RANCH LLC Ultimate Barrel Classic Continued on Page 5 Hallie Hanssen & UX Kimmitted Ta Fame Lock Up $29,089 at Classic Equine BRN4D Slot Futurity By Tanya Randall It’s really funny, because they’ll hold their head to the side as the go Hallie Hanssen celebrated her escape from the brutal cold of her down the fence. As far as when you’re running them, Koko is all Hermosa, S.D., home with a Classic Equine BRN4D Slot Futurity business and Kimmie was like that.” Championship aboard UX Kimmitted Ta Fame (“Koko”), a 4-year- Hanssen started riding Koko in the fall of her second year. old home-bred for longtime futurity players Marlin and Jinx Maude “I put like 60 days on her,” she said. “I sent her home and I got her of Hermosa. back in April or May of her 3-year-old year and have pretty much Koko is by all-time leading barrel horse sire Dash Ta Fame out of had her ever since then.” the Frenchmans Guy mare UX Frenchmans Kimmie. Koko started her barrel racing career at the BFA World Champi- “Koko’s mom Kimmie was one of my very first futurity horses,” onship Futurity in Oklahoma City last December. She made her de- noted Hanssen. “She was a really fun, gritty little mare. Crossed on but with a $12,500 fifth-place finish in the Super Stakes and stayed Dash Ta Fame, it just gives her more speed but still that grittiness. steady to place 15th in the Juvenile Futurity. She was such a fun mare so it’s been cool to ride her baby.” Thanks to the early success, Hanssen was confident in the mare Hanssen said that Koko has many of the same mannerisms as going into the Classic Equine BRN4D Futurity, held Jan. 5-8 in her mother when she’s on the ground too. “Kimmie liked to pace. Buckeye, Ariz. Her colts that I’ve ridden will do that occasionally if they’re bored. Classic Equine Slot Race Continued on Page 2 Classic Equine Slot Race Continued From Page 1 “I knew she would do pretty well in these bigger pens, but I didn’t know for sure how well,” she said. “She’s fairly solid, but by the ASH OR ASH time you say that, they’re bound to do something goofy.” ASH A A M E D F C D T F SI 114 Hanssen and Koko were fifth in the first go with a 17.458. SI 113 “The first go I was draw 29 so I was out early,” Hanssen ex- FIRST PRIZE ROSE plained. “I feel like out here that kind of makes a difference because DASH TA FA M E SI 98 SI 113 the ground seems to be a little bit heavier in the morning. She had TINY ’S GAY a pretty good run. She was a little bit “steppy,” where her footwork SU dd EN FA M E SI 106 wasn’t quite where it normally was. I felt like if she cleaned that up, SI 98 she would be a little bit better.” BAR DEARIE They came back and second go with the fastest time of the UX KI mm ITTE D TA FA M E SI 90 futurity, a 17.104, to win the round and the $20,000 first-place check 2013 BROWN FILLY in the Slot Futurity, which was determined by the fastest of the two SUN FROST go-round runs amongst the eligible horses. Their two-run total was good enough for second in the Futurity average as well. FRENCH M ANS GUY “The next day when they reversed the order, I was towards the FRENCH M AN ’S LA D Y end. Her run was pretty much flawless. She worked outstanding,” UX FRENCH M ANS KI mm IE said Hanssen. POCO MAN DAN She wanted to thank the Maudes and her sponsors as well as her DANS POCO PRINCESS family for their help and support. RIVER ’S POCO GAL “I would like to thank my husband, Lee, for all the hard work he does to keep my horses running her best,” she said. “I would RI D ER : HALLIE HANSSEN ; OWNER /BREE D ER : MARLIN & JIN X MAU D E also like thank my parents, Monte and Teresa Melvin, and the girl that works for me at home, Kendra Johnson. They stay at home in South Dakota and take care of my place up there so I can be gone to the futurities.” Hanssen and Koko have the Greg Olson Memorial this weekend THE RUN D OWN w/Hallie Hanssen in Buckeye before heading to Texas to await the LG Pro Classic in UX Kimmitted Ta Fame, “Koko”, 14.3 hands, 1,050 lbs. Kinder, La., and The Patriot in Fort Worth. BIT: Troy Flaharty Twisted Wire O-Rin snaffle SA dd LE : Tami Semas Classic Equine Slot Race SA dd LE PA D : 5 Star January 5-8, 2017, Buckeye, AZ LEG GEAR : Iconoclast, just fronts FEE D : Woody’s Sales Prep Futurity Slot Race HAY : Alfalfa 1 Ux Kimmitted Ta Fame, Hallie Hanssen, Jinx Stovall Maude, SU pp LE M ENTS : Omega Horse Shine, Tandem Oral 17.104, $20,000 ALTERNATIVE T HERA P Y : Back On Track blanket & leg wraps, 13 br. f. Dash Ta Fame-Ux Frenchmans Kimmie, Frenchmans MagnaWave, monthly Polyglycan Guy SP ONSORS : Tami Semas Barrel Saddles, Magna Wave, Omega 2 Mimis On Firewater, Jordan Bassett, 17.145, $10,000 Fields, Woody’s Performance Horse Feed, Equine Sports 12 pal. m. Dash Ta Fame-Fire Water Fanny, Fire Water Flit Medicine & Surgery, Platinum Coach & Flexineb. 3 Guys Dashing Jet, Pete Oen, Cathy Geary, 17.231, $7,500 12 buck. m. Frenchmans Guy-Perks Dashing Jet, Dash for Perks 4 Hell On The Red, Janae Massey, 17.330, $5,000 12 s. m. 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