JUNE 5, 2012 Volume 7 : Issue 22 In this issue... • Bob Worland Memorial, page 7 • TS Productions, page 10 • Pro Rodeos & Standings, page 12 • Copper Spring Classic, page 21 • Great Lakes National, page 23 ffastast hhorses,orses, ffastast nnewsews • Cruel Girl Classic, page 30 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Quick Work for Taylor and Flash at Red Desert Classic By Tanya Randall Last Thursday morning, Denise Taylor asked her 12-year-old Raise Your Glass twins, Kyle and Camille, if she could fi nd a hotel with a swimming Special Effort tb pool would they want to go to Rock Springs, Wyo., for the week- si 104 Go Effortlessley end. Fate worked in Taylor’s favor. She late entered her homebred Special Leader si 98 gelding Leader In A Flash in the Red Desert Classic Futurity, held si 103 June 1-3 at the Sweetwater Events Complex, and came home with a Dash For Cash championship. Miss Eye Opener si 114 si 98 “We went to Rocks Springs to have fun as much as anything,” Bedawee said Taylor. “My kids are like little fi sh. If we go somewhere, there Leader In A Flash si 92 has to be a pool. The kids and I have just been playing these last two weekends, just swimming three times a day and running bar- 2007 Bay Gelding rels.” Truckle Feature With the Red Desert Championship, “Flash” pulled the fi rst Seven Two Juan si 113 checks of his barrel career with a $3,471 victory in the $5,000-add- si 97 ed Futurity. Rebel Crash “He’s always been real consistent,” the Ogden, Utah, barrel racer Juan Slick Chick said. “It’s just now starting to click at top speed, but he’s always Pa Jones been really honest. He’s just kind of coming along.” Bounce of Gold si 95 The Red Desert Classic was Flash’s third futurity. Bouncy’s Gold “He wasn’t ready soon enough for the Arizona and Washington Rider/Owner/Breeder: Denise Taylor futurities,” explained Taylor, who trained her fi rst futurity horse at age 11 and won her fi rst futurity at 13. “I took him to the UBRA Futurity at the end of April, and he was just out of placing in the “I ran her as a 5-year-old,” recalled Taylor. “She won money 2D money. I took him to Gooding over Memorial Weekend and he at three futurities. She did good, not tremendous, but certainly was just out of the 1D money.” respectable.” Taylor knew Flash was ready to tackle another futurity, but she Juan Slick Chick entered the broodmare band the next year when wasn’t expecting to nearly win the futurity across the board. They Taylor was pregnant with the twins. won the fi rst go and fi nished second in the second to win the aver- “We just kept breeding her because she had such nice babies,” she age by more than a half-second. said. “They both were just gorgeous,” said Taylor of her runs. “His She made the fi rst cross because of her husband. fi rst run was great and his second run was outstanding. It was unbe- “There were a lot of Special Leaders around our area when my lievable, probably the nicest run that I’d ever made in that pen.” husband fi rst got out of vet school,” she explained. “The Special Taylor’s made many trips to Rocks Springs for the Red Desert leaders were so nice to work on. Mind is like everything to me, so Classic, and she said thankful for the contestant friendly event. when he said they were nice to work on I usually go with that. I “I always think that Red Desert puts on a fabulous futurity,” she stray occasionally and I’m usually sorry!” said. “They try so hard and its always well run. The time only’s— The fi rst foal, Eyes On Target is Taylor’s open horse. The they allow you do what you need to do as a trainer to get your colt 12-year-old gelding by Special Leader is Flash’s full brother. ready. For me, that was a huge deal because my colt was so inexpe- “He never ran at the futurities,” Taylor said. “He’s got a funny rienced. Yet, they are always able to stay on schedule. They just do a front foot to shoe, and every year he kept bowing a tendon. I think tremendous job.” the fi rst time that I ran him he was like 7. He doesn’t have quite Homegrown the athletic ability in the turns that this colt does. This colt’s a little Flash is one of four colts that Taylor has raised out of Juan Slick shorter coupled and he’s kind of the whole package.” Chick, a daughter of the Truckle Feature son Seven Two Juan out The next foal was a sorrel fi lly, which her husband Dean Taylor, of Bounce Of Gold, by Pa Jones. Taylor bought the mare as a four- DVM, claimed as his own. Juan Slick Chick’s third foal, She L Be The Juan was her most year-old from her breeder Kim Squires, Carnegie, Okla. Red Desert Continued on Page 3 IN THE NEWS.......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... The two Kansas rodeos over the June 1-3 weekend were the fi fth CM Dynamite Frost Passes and sixth for Parker since buying her PRCA permit last Novem- On the night of June 2, the Crago Ranch lost one of their great ber – she’d previously competed at California rodeos in Auburn, stallions, CM Dynamite Frost during a lightning storm. The 1998 Stonyford and Riverdale, and in Poteau, Okla. buckskin son of Doc O Dynamite and out of the great Sun Frost The win at Bennington went to Wrangler NFR qualifi er Trevor mare Sierra Frost was bred by Chuck Crago and remained with Kastner. The other Bennington champions were bareback rider Chuck & Mary at the Crago Ranch for his entire life. Jared Keylon (83 points), steer wrestler Chancey Larson (4.4 sec- CM Dynamite Frost was an own son of the great performance onds), team ropers Quincy Kueckelhan and Christopher Young (5.1 sire Doc O Dynamite, also sire of Rachael (Myllymaki’s) Boyle great seconds), saddle bronc rider Isaac Diaz (86 points), tie-down roper NFR barrel horse Easy Does It Doc, and out of an own daughter Hunter Herrin (7.9 seconds) and barrel racer Kyra Stierwalt (16.27 of Sun Frost, a $2 million dollar producer of performance horses seconds). -- Courtesy of www.wpra.com and NFR qualifi ers. He was destined to produce greatness in the arena. CM Dynamite Frost was the Reserve Champion in the SDRCHA AQHA Cloning Update Breeders Futurity as a 3 year old. He won the 2010 AQHA Region AQHA’s legal team has fi led a Motion to Dismiss the cloning 2 Show in Heading and was Reserve in Heeling. In 2009, he was the lawsuit fi led in Judge Mary Lou Robinson’s Federal District Court Reserve in both Heading and Heeling. here in Amarillo. The Motion presents extensive case law that, His get have went on to excel in calf roping, team roping, barrel as a voluntary private association, AQHA has the right to make racing, and all the performance events. In fact, just recently Kali and adopt its own regulations without intervention by the courts. Parker placed at the Magic Valley Barrel Futurity on CM Dynamite The Motion also explains that a careful analysis of the Plaintiffs’ Image by CM Dynamite Frost. His get will carry on his legacy for Complaint reveals that there is no factual or legal basis for a viable years to come. antitrust claim against AQHA. AQHA will continue to provide you updates and vigorously defend the lawsuit. --Courtesy of www.aqha. Woman Bull Rider Makes History com Move over Kaila Mussell, you have company in ProRodeo’s most exclusive club. Ardith Bruce Honored Maggie Parker, a 19-year-old permit holder from Shaftsburg, On June 1 the town of Fountain, Colorado honored 1964 Barrel Mich., became the fi rst woman in PRCA history to earn a check in a Racing World Champion Ardith Bruce. The town erected a new bull riding competition June 2 at the Bennington PRCA Rodeo and welcome sign which contains a picture of Ardith Bruce barrel joined Mussell (a saddle bronc rider) as the only female contestants racing and states “Welcome To Fountain: Hometown Of Ardith to place in any roughstock event. Bruce: 1964 Barrel Racing World Champion”. Ardith Bruce won Parker, coached by 1970 World Champion Bull Rider Gary Lef- her 1964 Championship aboard her great horse Shaws Kingwood few, scored 70 points on New Frontier Rodeo’s B12 to fi nish sixth Snip (aka Red) and said none of it would have been possible with- in a fi eld of 38 and earn $190 (plus $270 in day money), the fi rst out her great gelding. Ardith Bruce is the grandmother of WPRA step on her way to becoming the fi rst woman to qualify to buy her barrel racer and former Board member Amber Bruce West. At PRCA card. nearly 81 years old, Bruce still rides frequently. The ceremony was “I’m in this for the same reason the guys are,” Parker said, “be- attended by city people and Bruce’s friends and family. Ardith Bruce cause I love doing it. I didn’t set out to prove a point beyond being has lived in Fountain, Colorado now for almost 50 years.