AUGUST 9, 2016 Volume 10: Issue 32 In this issue... • Pro Rodeos, pg 10 • Glen Rose Summer Classic, pg 23 • JJ Classic & UBRA Futurity, pg 28 • Ogden 8 & Under, pg 38 fast horses, fast news • JJK #6 & #7, pg 41 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Cool As Ice – Tamara Reinhardt & Frost Free Win Dodge City Roundup in Kansas By Tanya Randall When you’ve spent most of your life making horses, sometimes AS K AS K IA OU P DE AS K it isn’t the actual win that takes your breath away. Sometimes it’s an C K TB unexpected effort that leaves you speechless. TB For former National Finals Rodeo qualifier and longtime Barrel MOR COU P Futurities of America board member Tamara Reinhardt, winning SU P ER DE KAS TB SI 103 the Dodge City Roundup was just the icing on the cake that was GENERAL SU P ER the commanding performance of her 8-year-old gelding Frost Free. SU P ER STAR LADY Reinhardt and “Ice” ran their first sub-17 on a WPRA Standard Pat- tern to win the second round at the Kansas rodeo. CHARLENE BROWN “Really, winning the average wasn’t as exciting as running the 16.9 FROST FREE in the second go,” said Reinhardt, who hails from Canadian, Texas. 2008 BAY GELDIN G “That was just … that really was the highlight of the deal. It was EASY JET so unexpected. He just laid down a run that had never happened SI 100 JET T ORO before. I didn’t know what he was capable of. SI 104 “If you enter pro rodeos, you hope you’re riding a really fast PE gg Y T ORO horse. He’s just really struggled with some confidence issues and I YEAH Y EAH I DO SI 100 just didn’t know if he ever was going to change gears. He did Friday SI 101 DOUBLE BID night.” MIXED DOUBLES SI 100 All contestants made their first runs in slack the morning before a performance. The top 10 from each slack session of 20 to 30 con- DARE DEVIL testants advanced to that night’s performance. The remaining barrel RIDER : T A M ARA REINHARDT ; OWNER : V ERA HA mm ONS ; BREEDER : V AU G HN & JILL COO K racers got their second run following their first. “My goal was just to advance to a performance,” said Reinhardt, Reinhardt. “Paige Willis was the first one to run and she ran a 17.4. who made her first run Friday morning. “When we got there and I When her time was a 17.4, I figured the ground must be decent and saw who was in my group, I told my husband, ‘I don’t want to be her horse didn’t slip because the crowd didn’t ooh and awe. I had in this group!’ It was such a stacked group with NFR people and run him in the mud before so I knew that wouldn’t bother him; it people that are in the Top 20 that are really hungry. I was No. 25. was just whether or not the ground would hold him. To run a 17.1 So Friday morning, they’re running 17.2s, 17.3, 17.4s, so to even get on the ground the way it was says everything about his effort this in the top 10 you had to be a long 17.4 or a short 17.5. My horse weekend.” had not really shown that he was consistent at doing that. He ran a Making the event even more memorable for Reinhardt was hav- 17.29 that morning and I ended up 6th in the first go. The strategy ing her family on hand. Her mother Vera Hammons, sister and for Friday night was just to make the same run and not ask him nephew Talara and Payson Coen as well as husband Donny were all to do anything outside of his comfort zone. I felt really confident in attendance. Ice was a family project with Reinhardt’s late father that he could run a 17.3 or 17.4, but as it turned out he ran a 16.9. I Don purchasing the gelding and her mother Vera training him. didn’t do anything different; he just ran that much harder.” “It’s very exciting,” said Reinhardt, who pocketed $8,709 for the After rain blew through the area, the Sunday night short round victory. “It’s very exciting for a lot of personal reasons—how we had a little heavier footing. Reinhardt noted that the arena was ended up with this horse and everything. My father passed away muddy enough that the One-Armed Bandit got his truck and trailer three years ago this month. This horse has just revitalized my stuck in the arena and had to be pulled out with a tractor before the mother. To see one of her horses perform like this has been very barrel race. therapeutic. It’s been very helpful for my family.” “The barrel racers are kind of in a holding area behind and Bred by Vaughn and Jill Cook, Ice is by Super De Kas out of beneath the north bleachers, so you can’t see anything,” noted Pro Rodeo Continued on Page 5 IN THE NEWS .......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... That decision was a successful one picking up $2,400, the big- Burger Breaks WPRA Regular gest check of the week for Burger, who will turn 68 on August 18. However, don’t expect Burger to sit at home now and wait for the Season Earnings Record NFR. By Ann Bleiker for the WPRA “I am entered this week at Lawton (Okla.) and Coffeyville While Team USA is setting records and winning medals in Rio (Kan.),” stated Burger. “Then I plan to go to Pueblo (Colo.) and at the Olympic Games, 2006 WPRA Barrel Racer Mary Burger is Fort Madison (Iowa). My horse is just seven and he is sound and rewriting the WPRA record books here in the States with more to feeling good so there is no reason for me to sit at home and do come in December at the Wrangler NFR. The latest record to fall nothing.” was the Most Money Won Prior to the NFR. Lindsay Sears set that Sears still holds the highest single-year earnings record in the record in 2008 with $184,567. When the new world standings were WPRA with $323,570 from 2008. Burger is positioning herself for released on Monday, August 8, Burger had collected $185,439 thus a run at that record with the huge payout awaiting her in Las Vegas far in 2016 with roughly two months left in the regular season. at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Dec. 1-10. Burger surpassed Sears’ record the first week of August with a host of rodeos she is very familiar with in the Prairie Circuit. As of 2016 ProRodeo Hall of Fame August 1, Burger had amassed a total of $179,576 with huge wins The 2016 ProRodeo Hall of Fame induction ceremony offered a from both Houston and Calgary. She needed just $4,992 to break class touching all sides of the rodeo business. the record. Leading the 11-member class were five world champions - Dave Burger finished third in the second round of the Dodge City Appleton (all-around, 1988), Arnold Felts (steer roping, 1981), John (Kan.) Roundup with a 17.04-second run worth $1,718. She fin- Quintana (bull riding, 1972), Jerold Camarillo (team roping, 1969) ished second at Iowa’s Championship Rodeo in Sidney with a 17.65 and Bud Linderman (bareback riding, 1945). adding $1,654. Her biggest check of the weekend would come at Joining them were rodeo notable Myrtis Dightman, announcer Kansas’ Biggest Rodeo in Phillipsburg finishing second in a time of Phil Gardenhire, renowned steer wrestling horse Scottie, famous 16.97 worth $2,400, pushing her past Sears’ record. She would add saddle bronc horse and sire Gray Wolf, and committees for the another $91 at the Jayhawker Roundup Rodeo in Hill City, Kan., Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo and Redding (Calif.) Rodeo. with a 10th place finish in a time of 17.11. Appleton summed up the thoughts of all involved by saying, “This “I never dreamed this would happen and it is just unbeliev- is surreal in a way. You walk into that Hall and look at all the icons able,” stated Burger when she learned she had officially set the new of the sport who have been so impactful. Then you realize, ‘Wow, record. “I am at a loss for words, really. I just wanted to win a little I’m going to be part of this group.’ It’s pretty special.” money this year and have fun with my horse.” The two rodeo committees inducted - Spanish Fork, Utah, and Not one to pay attention to the records or worry about it, Burger Redding, Calif. - have each been in the PRCA for more than six de- said the first time she heard someone talk that she was close to cades, and are both long-standing members of the Wrangler Million Sears’ record was in Cheyenne via social media. Dollar Silver Tour. “I don’t pay attention to records like that,” said Burger. “I just Spanish Fork Fiesta Days Rodeo joined the PRCA in 1942, and take one run at a time and try to win as much money as I can each has put together a current streak of 44 consecutive sellout perfor- time out.” mances.
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