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The 2018-2019 Chariot & Cutter World Championship was decided on March 31 at the Salt Lake County Equestrian Park in South Jordan, Utah. The teams ran in their respective divisions, with the top three teams from the first division competing for the title of World Champion.
The Championship finals consisted of: 2014 World Champions Rowdy Friends Racing from Tooele Valley, Utah, with their 2014 World Championship team of BS Big Shoes and Dont Gimme No BS; the Jamison & Wood team from Cache Valley, Idaho, with Hesjumpn and Dewey Cox; and the Timm, Hanni & Roberts team from Utah Valley with runners Bac Burner and Bridger Hawk.
The three teams were led to the gate for the Championship run, and each team broke well and pushed towards the finish line. It was a close race, but Rowdy Friends Racing came running on the end and won the 2019 World Champion title while also clocking the fastest time of the day in :22.326 for the 440 yards.
The second placed Jamison & Wood team, which finished in a close :22.378, consisted of: Hesjumpn (Jumpn Chic-New Porter, Strawfly Special), a 2-time winner on the flat track who was second in the Gem County Futurity and fifth in the Blane Schvaneveldt Futurity with $6,885 in earnings; and Dewey Cox (Wave Carver-Apollos Winner, Apollo TB), a 7-time winner on the flat track who won the 2012 Hawthorne Futurity, was
second in the Spring Classic Derby and a multiple stakes finalist with $34,768 banked.
The third place team of Timm, Hamm & Roberts crossed the finish line in :22.406 and consisted of: Bac Burner (Okey Dokey Dale–Baby Bac, Splash Bac), a 2-time race winner and mul- tiple stakes finalist with $4,492 in earnings; and Bridger Hawk (Hawkinson-Half A Meter Gone, Meter Me Gone), who broke his maiden race wire- to-wire by 3/4-lengths at Laurel Brown Racetrack.
The 2019 World Championship Rowdy Friends Racing team is bred and owned by Brent and Sherry Young. Brent conditions and drives the team.
The Rowdy Friends Racing team included: 12-year-old bay gelding BS Big Shoes (Maknmoves-Sugar Tree Lane, Lanes Leinster), a winner on the flat track with a career best 90 speed index and $2,728 in earnings; and 14-year-old gray gelding Dont Gimme No BS (BS Gimme Five-SB Dashin Bugs, Blushing Bug), a 2-time winner on the flat track with a career high 93 speed index and $11,777 in earnings before moving to the chariots.
Rowdy Friends Racing earned their way to the World Championships by winning their state division through the Tooele Valley Chariot Racing Association. This same team won the 2014 World Championship title and were the 2015 Reserve Champions, and can now add the 2019 World Chariot Champion title to their long list of accomplishments – a feat that has never been achieved before. Congratulations!
The Rowdy Friends Racing 2019 World Chariot Champion team consists of Dont Gimme No BS (gray), BS Big Shoes (bay) and driver Brent Young.
2019 World Chariot
Championship
by Heather Ridgway • Photos by Patricia Wagner
Team Rowdy Friends Racing (left), team Jamison & Wood (center), and team Timm, Hanni & Roberts (right) at the start of the World Chariot Championship run.
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