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Kinsel Wins RFD-Tv’s The American
Hailey Kinsel and her 2011 mare DM Sissy Hayday won barrel racing’s richest prize in RFD-Tv’s The American. Kinsel and “Sister” qualified the fastest to the event and then
won the $100,000 finals, also splitting a third of the $1 million bonus that was awarded
to the qualifying contestants that won their respective events. Kinsel earned a $433,333 paycheck, which is the richest payout ever received by any barrel racer. DM Sissy Hayday, who is owned by the Kinsel Family and was bred by Dillon Mundorf of George West, Texas, is sired by two-time WPRA Champion Sire PC Frenchmans Hayday, aka “Dinero,” and is out of Royal Sissy Irish by Royal Shake Em. The Kinsel family pur- chased the mare for $11,500 as a 2 year old.
Nancy Hunter Passes Away
Champion barrel racer and cancer research advocate Nancy Hunter, 59, passed away March 12 following a brief battle
with pancreatic cancer. Hunter and her
late equine partner Flit N Fizz, aka Fuzz, qualified to the 2014 and 2015 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo; won the 2013, 2014 and 2014 Rodeo Houston; won Caldwell, Idaho’s Night Rodeo from 2010-2012 and
in 2015; and qualified to nine Wilderness Circuit Finals and six National Circuit Finals Rodeo. Hunter started the Glitter Like Gold
campaign to raise awareness for childhood cancer and was a proponent of the WPRA’s Drug Rules, using her knowledge as a nurse to express concern about the misuse and overuse of certain medications in barrel horses. She is survived her husband Fred, their children, and many other family mem- bers and friends.
Sparky Impression Dies
2005 AQHA Horse of the Year Sparky Impression (Barnone Impressive-Sokota Sparky) passed away Oct. 14, 2016, at the age of 27. “Little Sparky” placed over 300 times and earned $164,000 in 2002-2004 alone. Owner June Holeman made it to the 2005 National Finals Rodeo with Little Sparky, who set the still-standing record as the oldest competitor. Little Sparky made his last run at the age of 22 on Jan. 29, 2011, at the PRCA in Denton, Nebraska.
JL Turn Ta Fame Dies
AQHA World Show qualifier JL Turn Ta Fame (Dash Ta Fame-Turning Pages) passed away in Jan. 2017. The 2004 stallion, who stood at Triple N Ranch in Georgia, was
an NBHA winner and a 1D money earner in futurity, derby and youth competition. He was the sire of multiple barrel winners/ money earners and futurity, open, youth, and rodeo competitors.
Speedhorse Photo Archive Answer
The photo on page 153 shows AQHA Hall of Fame horse Kaweah Bar in the winner’s circle after his victory in the 1970 Barbra B Handicap at Los Alamitos. Kaweah Bar was bred by Charles Woodson of Hadan Livestock Co., owned by George Chittick, trained by Larry E. Kleve, and ridden by Robert Adair. Kaweah Bar, who was also trained by C.R. Knight earlier in his career, was sired by stakes winner Alamitos Bar during the promising stallion’s first crop, and he was out of New Track Record setter Angie Miss, a daughter of Go Man Go.
Kaweah Bar began his career on the track at two and raced until he was ten years of age. In those eight years, the incredibly sound palomino gelding earned a race record of 38(21)-18(7)-16(7) from an amazing 114 starts racing at Bay Meadows, Sunland Park, Los Alamitos and Fairplex Park. He set a 400-yard New Track Record at Bay Meadows and, despite losing at least four $100,000 races because of his customary misbehavior, finished his career with $386,516 in earnings.
With all the necessary power to defeat any foe when in the mood, Kaweah Bar was known to be ornery on the track and would dawdle down the lane or buck when touched with the whip – and still hit the board. He was disqualified a few times for his antics. But, he was a very charismatic and loveable horse otherwise. It was not uncommon for him to drink a beer or two, if someone would hold the can to his lips. He never spilled a drop. This unruly and roguish gelding rightly earned the nickname of the “Golden Clown.” He also acquired the name of the “Palomino Express.”
Kaweah Bar was named the 1968 and 1970 World Champion, receiving a total of 12 Champion titles between 1968-1972 – more racing Champion titles than any other horse in AQHA history. Kaweah Bar was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1998.
Kaweah Bar was sold as a chariot horse in 1976, and less than one week following the announcement of his retirement from the track, he died in a freak trailer accident. To honor the “Palomino Express,” Los Alamitos in 1980 changed the name of their then Inaugural Handicap, which had been run since 1952, to the Kaweah Bar Handicap, with Kita Pass winning that first edition. This year’s $25,000 Grade 3 Kaweah Bar Handicap will be contested on May 7.
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