SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 -- Volume 13: Issue 38 IN THIS ISSUE: • Pro Rodeos & World Standings, pg 12 • The Blitz, Bowman, ND, pg 21 • New World Record Set in Brazil, pg 23 • Haydens Help & BRAT, Glen Rose, TX, pg 28 • PRCA & The Cowboy Channel Agree To TV Deal, pg 37 • Run 2 Win, Red Bluff, CA, pg 40 • AMQ #15, Red Bluff, CA, pg 44 • AMQ #16, Bowman, ND, pg 44 Published Weekly, online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Ivy Hurst & Top Of The Roc Roll At Texarkana By Tanya Randall No rest for the weary. After a long summer on the rodeo road out West, Ivy Hurst of THE RUNDOWN w/Ivy Hurst Springer, Oklahoma, hasn’t been able to enjoy being home much. Top Of The Roc, “Diddy” 15 hands, 1,100 lbs. She’s still pushing hard to finish out the 2019 season and get a jump start on 2020. “He’s a big horse. He’s a stout dude. All the steer wrestlers look at him She got a huge boost toward both seasons with a $2,327 champi- when I lead him by.” onship at the 75th Annual Four States Fair & Rodeo, held Septem- BIT: Depends on the set up. “I switched him to a Molly Powell Rate & Turn. ber 19-21 in Texarkana, Arkansas. It has kind of a correction mouthpiece. It keeps him a little more stood “My horse runs great inside, but I wasn’t sure how he’d run up. It’s the end of the year, he’s a little stronger. It allows me to have a inside after being outside all summer,” she said of her 12-year-old little more when I need it. He’s been in it for most of the small runs. gelding Top Of The Roc (“Diddy”). “I just wasn’t jumping up and SADDLE: Coats down to go to all these little buildings after I got back, but that seems to be what I’m doing. He was great! I don’t know what I was SADDLE PAD: Classic Equine ESP Contour Wool Top worried about!” LEG GEAR: Classic Equine on all four Hurst also wanted to commend the Four States rodeo committee SHOEING: “He’s shod in regular shoes. I like rims on all my horses, but with for the great ground in Texarkana. him, he is so sure-footed and does so well. He wears an aluminum shoe “It’s such a great arena and the ground is so good,” she said. “It’s on front and plain steel shoe on the back. I don’t want anymore traction so fun to go as fast as you want to go and know it’s going to hold. on this horse because he’s already stopping in his turns.” After a long summer of not knowing what you were really on, it FEED: Bluebonnet Equilene was really fun just to let him rip.” It didn’t hurt that the Jud Little-bred gelding, by Sticks An Stones HAY: Mostly alfalfa. If I can get it on the road, orchard grass, mix. out of the Cash Not Credit mare Top Bug Cash, had run in the SUPPLEMENTS: Simply Equine Herbs, OE Nutraceuticals Solution daily when arena often with his previous owner Jackie Brand. on the road, Ultimate Oil. Runs on OE Nitro if he’s tired. OE Revive paste “He just kind of felt like he was home,” said Hurst. “He felt like for electrolytes. he gave me way more than I thought he was that night. I knew he ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES: Simply Equine Cooling Gel post run, Back On Track and was a player and I knew he could place, but I mean he was all there. Magic Cushion. “I don’t own a lot of therapy products so it’s whatever, It was pretty fun.” whoever I can find on the road. I don’t think there is anything better than Hurst also ran at Amarillo, Texas, and Springhill, Louisiana, both of which were co-approved with the Prairie Circuit—her home a bunch of shavings and lots of rest. I use my PHT blanket a lot.” designation. The deep ground didn’t work for she and Diddy at CONDITIONING-TRAINING REGIMEN: “At home it’s a little different than it is out here. I Amarillo and she chose to run Burn Notice at Springhill in the mud. don’t work him on the barrels at home ever unless we have an issue. Out here, “He did really good,” she said of the young gelding. “He smoked these setups are so different, I like to get him out to see the arenas. I had an the first and smoked the second, but there was a mud puddle at the ‘ah-ha’ moment with him this spring. He ran mediocre the first round at Red third that he wasn’t sure about. I thought I was going to get me a Bluff and then won the second. Back at Guymon, he ran mediocre the first big check until he got to the third and went ‘What is that?’” round and won the second round. I used to have this theory keep him out of Hurst currently sits 27th in the WPRA World Standings with $51,476. She’s been trying to stay within the Top 30 to be eligible to the arena and don’t let him see the barrels because he does want to get so get into the limited winter rodeos—mainly Rodeo Houston. close and get so short. I started realizing he gets better. I don’t ever run him in “I’ve worked my butt off all year because my main goal is to practice, but I’ll let him cruise to a barrel and feel the ground. He’s really smart get this horse to run at Houston because he is so turny,” she said. to tune on. Whatever I do last is what he does next. I have to be very careful “Generally, the top 30 is the rule of thumb and I’ve kind of been how I finish my sessions.” hovering right there, anywhere between 26 and 30.” SPONSORS: OE Nutraceuticals, Simply Equine, Mia Meyers-CPA, Whispers Beaded She said it’s been a dogfight to stay within that group. Tack, Classic Equine, Andrew O’Guin Horseshoeing. 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