JANUARY 13, 2015 Volume 9: Issue 2 In this issue... • Classic Equine/BRN4D Futurity, Derby & Open, pg 4 • Colorado vs. the World, pg 19 • Odessa, TX Pro Rodeo fast horses, fast news & World Standings, pg 23 Published Weekly Online at www.BarrelRacingReport.com - Since 2007 Bassett & Buggin To Be Fab Top Classic Equine/BRN4D Slot Race By Tanya Randall In just his fifth run on the clock, Buggin To Be Fab (“Cool SUN FRO S T Whip”) clocked a 17.378 on a WPRA Standard Pattern to win the FREN C H M AN S GUY Slot Race at the Classic Equine / BRN4D Futurity in Buckeye, Ariz., for owners Jordan Bassett and Elaine Nevill. The victory, FREN C H M AN ’S LADY which was determined by the faster of their two runs in the qualify- FREN C H M AN S FA B ULOU S ing rounds of the regular futurity, was worth $20,000. TINY CIR C U S “He was absolutely flawless in his turns,” said Bassett, who rode CA S EY S CHAR M S I 97 the 4-year-old gelding. “Thank Goodness, because on the way home he got between the first and second barrel and he wanted to turn. CA S EY S LADYLOVE He didn’t know where to go, where to run to. He was stopping and BUGGIN T O BE FA B scotching. I was like ‘just a couple of more jumps. Get past the eye.’ 2010 PALO M INO GELDING He scotched me pretty bad at the line, so when I looked up and saw SIX FOL S S I 90 he ran a .3, I couldn’t believe it.” MARTHA S SIX MOON S Bassett and Cool Whip, who won the C-N Futurity on their first S I 99 two outings, also finished second in the Classic Equine Futurity aver- LADY BUG S MARTHA S I 89 age for additional earnings of $8,249, thanks to another run of 17.3. EA S T MOON “In the second round, he smoked the first, and I didn’t ride him BUG S A LIVE IN 75 the best that I could,” said Bassett, who won the 2014 Pac West SAINT BUG S S I 94 Futurity on the Dash Ta Fame gelding Cocomo Jo. “The only thing S I 82 that was on my mind was leaving them standing and stay in the BLONDE SAINT average. He’s very turny, loves to run barrels and he’s trying really RIDER : JORDAN BA ss ETT ; OWNER : BA ss ETT & ELAINE NEVILL ; BREEDER : KENNY NI C HOL S hard, and I knew he was going to turn that second barrel really hard. I was thinking just get him by it. I rode him really hard to the second and I didn’t help him as much as I should have on the backside and he stepped off it pretty good. It put me a little out THE RUNDOWN with Jordan Bassett of position going to the third. I was thinking ‘just leave one more Buggin To Be Fab (Cool Whip) standing!’ We got around it pretty good and he ran home a lot bet- 2011 Palomino Gelding, 16 hands, 1,200 lbs. ter. He knew where to run to and where he was going.” BIT: Medium shank Dave Elliott with a 4-piece twisted wire Cool Whip is a gelded son of leading barrel horse sire French- mouth mans Fabulous, who sired last year’s Greg Olson Memorial Futurity HEADGEAR : None Champion KN Fabs Gift Of Fame. He is out of East Moon, a SADDLE : Top Hat Saddle, made by Robert Pelton, San Angelo, TX daughter of former leading barrel horse sire Marthas Six Moons SADDLE PAD : 5-Star out of Saint Bugs, by Bugs Alive In 75. Cool Whip was bred by LEG GEAR : Professional Choice fronts & bells, polo wraps on back Kenny Nichols, but doesn’t bear the KN initials due to being sold FEED : Nutrena SafeChoice as weanling to Megan Lewis. HAY : Alfalfa Lewis had trained Cool Whip until last April when he was sold to SU pp LE M ENT S : CalDensity, Formula 1 Noni Kelsey Lutjen. Bassett bought him in September. ALTERNATIVE T HERA P IE S : Back On Track boots and blanket “When the opportunity came up for me to buy him, I knew I had SP ON S OR S : Earnhardt Dodge, Prescoot Frontier Days, West- to take it,” said Bassett. “I had a good family friend who wanted to ern Wind Products, Zimmerman Equine Sports Medicine invest in an opportunity like this, so I called and told her about him. Together, Elaine Nevill and I made the purchase. from a mile away. They were really excited.” “She’s a really good friend of mine. Our friendship is a huge blessing. I’m very thankful for her and all she’s done for me.” 2015 Classic Equine/BRN4D Slot Race Nevill, who lives in Iola, Texas, was on hand to see her horse win, January 8-11, 2015, Buckeye AZ noted Bassett, “You probably could have heard her and my mom Classic Equine/BRN4D Slot Race Continued on Page 4 IN THE NEWS .......IN THE NEWS......in the news......In the News......In the News..... 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Every sponsor that buys a cowboy/cowgirl For more information on everything pertaining to The American, will get 2 seats on the floor level in the Cowboy Stadium owners watch The Road To The American on RFDTV each week leading boxes. If the sponsor’s contestant wins their event, their picture up to The American and check out their website www.rfdtv.com will be taken with winner on the stage and they also win a Bohlin and click on The American logo. buckle. For more information about this event contact Keith at We will continue to keep you updated on the latest news as we [email protected]. head to the Semi-Finals and Finals of The American. Brittany Pozzi’s Rookie Champion Lances Ugly Boy Laid To Rest at 28 Lances Ugly Boy, the unassuming brown gelding that set Brittany “I won all 12 high school rodeos on him,” she said, “and then my Pozzi on the path to barrel racing stardom, passed away January 13 senior year I won every high school rodeo that I rode him at—I had at the ripe old age of 28. In 2003, the gelding, affectionately known another little mare that I rode at a few of them.” as “Leroy,” made Pozzi the first and only Rookie Champion to head In 2002, Pozzi won the barrel racing championships at the Texas into the National Finals Rodeo in the No. 1 position in the World High School Finals Rodeo and National High School Finals Rodeo. Standings. That fall she headed to Texas A&M University. As a member of “He made me the rider that I am today,” said the two-time World the rodeo team, she won first at half of her college rodeos, earning Champion Barrel Racer. “He taught me how to ride a setty horse. champion barrel racer honors in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo He was tough. I carried a whip in both hands. I had ride my butt Association’s Southern Region. off to get him around the barrels. It was always in the back of my Pozzi had purchased her WPRA permit in November 2002 and mind that if I didn’t, he would duck.” got her card in February 2003. That summer when Pozzi and her Bred by David L. Hurst, Victoria, Texas, Leroy was by Double hauling partner Laura Jane Hyde showed up in Reno, Nevada, she Victor out of Bar’s Baby, by Some More Bars. After flunking out had $2,500 won. of Western pleasure training in David Lawrence’s barn in Tomball, “I was going to school,” Pozzi recalled. “I was having hell just Texas, Leroy was purchased as a $2,500 barrel prospect by Marcheta filling my permit. Then we got outside and it was a different story. I Garrett, Hempstead, Texas. ended up going to the Finals in No. 1 starting half way through the “I had him a year-and-a-half,” Garrett said. “I had taken him to year.” some jackpots and won a bunch. He was really setty. As soon as Pozzi and Leroy won rodeos in Bay City and Beaumont, Texas, he learned what he was doing, you had to send him as hard as you North Platte, Neb., and set an arena record at the Iowa Champion- could from the North 40.