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tTammy and Easy Dash Oak, aka Roundpen, who she qualified with to the NFR five times.
qQuarter Horse race horse trainer and Tammy’s father Jack Dube.
uTammy’s sister Jackie and father Jack after the 1985 Rainbow Futurity.
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spend the whole race season there and from fourth through eighth grades, I went to school there. Once I got older, I didn’t switch schools from Giddings anymore, but they kept going out there.” Tammy’s sister, Jackie Dube Jatzlau, two-time NFR qualifier (2002 and 2003, where she scored the fastest time of the event [13.63 seconds] and took 10th in the World) also trains barrel horses.
After high school, Tammy earned a master’s degree in library science from Sam Houston State University and worked as a teacher for three years and a librarian for two.
She has trained barrel horses full time since 1993. “I originally trained futurity horses for 13 years. I got Roundpen [Easy Dash Oak, by Dash For Cash son Victory Dash and out of Easily Smashed daughter Little Oak] as a yearling in 1996. “He was super good,” she says. “And when my futurity horses turned five, I’d give them just a little bit of rodeo experience and then I would sell them. Well, he was outstanding, and I did not want to sell him. So, when you keep them, you rodeo.”
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Tammy rodeoed full time for 10 years, earning the Barrel Futurities of America
(BFA) World Champion title in 1999,
when Roundpen was also named Futurity Horse of the Year. She won AQHA World Championships in 1999 and 2000, winning the Junior barrels back-to-back.
She qualified for the NFR with Roundpen in 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2009. Their inaugural year, the pair won five of 10 rounds and set an Arena Record (13.63 seconds) that stood for four years. She also qualified with MP Quick Money (aka Money, by Frenchman’s Hayday and out of Quickern A Wink, by Dr Bordeaux) in 2011, and with Ziva in 2018.
By WPRA earnings, Tammy finished 2002 third in the world, 2003 14th, 2006 and 2008 11th, and 2009, 2011 and 2018 as 13th.
She won the 2006 Rodeo Houston Championship, and the 2009 Calgary Stampede Championship—just two weeks after her 18-year-old son, Riley Cole Key, was killed in a car accident. She also earned the Texas Circuit
Championship that year and topped the Texas Circuit Championship Average twice.
Although PRCA records don’t include Tammy and Roundpen’s early earnings, their monies unofficially exceed $1 million by a long shot.
MENTORING A NEW GENERATION
Along with training, coaching, and competing, Tammy has guided younger competitors up through the ranks. Taci Bettis, who attended her first NFR in
2017, traveled with Tammy for about 10 years and competed on the Tammy-trained 2008 gelding Smash (Bogie Is A Smash, by Bogie Biankus and out of Bogies Devine Smash, by Remember Smash). She earned a fourth-place finish and took Rookie of the Year honors there and placed 10th in WPRA earnings that first year.
She returned in 2018, where she earned her first career go-round win in Round Eight with a time of 13.57 seconds. She finished 2018 seventh, with WPRA earnings of $191,538.
“The best way to describe Tammy Fischer is, other people come first.” – Victoria Procter
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