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Brian Fulton roping on A Streak Of Fling.
A Streak Of Rita “Worm” and Trula Churchill.
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also the California Circuit Finals Champions in 2017, the Open Finals Reserve Champions in 2013 and the Co-Reserve Open Finals Champions in 2016. They have won $527,205 in barrel racing.
Worm came from the first crop of A Streak Of Fling and he is an example of the first moves by the Fultons to promote their stallion, “We gave breedings to people like Trula, as Brian was real keen on putting those early foals in the hands of good people to get that good start.”
THE PEDIGREE AND BARREL RACING
A Streak Of Fling was to become a rope horse in tie-down calf roping and heading, and then sire roping horses. But, as we have seen, fate seemed to step in and he added success as a sire of barrel racers. A look at his pedigree will show some of the barrel racing influence found in his pedigree.
The sire of A Streak of Fling was Streakin Six, who was bred and raced by the Tom
L. Burnett Cattle Company that was a
part of the Burnett Ranches. He was the 1979 Rainbow Futurity-G1 winner and second to Pie In The Sky in that year’s All American Futurity-G1. He came back at three to win the New Mexico State Fair Handicap. He was second in the 1980 World’s Championship Classic and third in that year’s Kansas Derby. He made 19 starts with 10 wins, five seconds and one third. He earned $473,934.
A Streak Of Fling was bred in Oklahoma by Jack Marley. This son of Streakin Six and out of the mare Moon Fling was bred to be
a racehorse. He started his race career owned by Sheila Reed and trained by Rodney Reed. He went to the barn of Eddie D. Willis, who became his owner and trainer in 2002. He made 14 starts on the track winning three, placing second four times earning $27,645. He was a stakes finalist in the 2002 Blue Ribbon Derby-G3.
The goal to purchase Streaker was to breed roping horses. They saw that he suited Brian when he first rode him. He went on
to start training his new stallion. Lisa tells
us what came next after they got Streaker to the ranch in fall of 2003. “By May of 2004, Brian was breakaway roping on him and getting him ready to rope calves. He was really getting into the ground. The plan was to continue roping and to get him heading. After the first two breeding seasons, he got so busy on us that our plan to rope on him was not going to happen. He went to the breeding farm, and we never got him back to finish him.”
The plan to make Streaker a roping horse and sire got an added bonus. “Trula Churchill, a neighbor of ours just 30 miles down the road, has been a large part of Streaker’s success at the start. She bred her husband’s bulldogging horse, and the foal Worm (A Streak Of Rita) was supposed to be a bulldogging horse. But Trula took over on Worm. She had a teaching job and took the Spring semester off. She had a one-horse
trailer and she bungy corded her hay bales to the side to go see if Worm had what it took.”
Worm had what is took as he carried Trula to the WNFR Finals three times, the Canadian Finals three times and the RAM Circuit Finals twice. They have also been to the California Circuit Finals several times. They won the Canadian Finals in 2011 and the Reserve
Champions in
2012. They were
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