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They say you’ve got to dream big to win big, and a slew of young competitors showed up do to just that in the annual PBRIP Hopes & Dreams Barrel Racing and Pole Bending Sweepstakes at the AjPHA Youth World Championship Show on July 1. Paint Horses and Appaloosas squared off in these exciting added-money events, sponsored by the RAM Paint Barrel Racing Incentive Program. Collecting more than 30 entries across the pair of PBRIP events, 11 Youth scored checks for their clock-stopping runs, but only two took home the title of Hopes & Dreams Champion.
BARRELS
Though Grace Davis of Fulshear, Texas, saddled up for her first Youth World Show in 2017, she’s no newcomer to barrel racing—the 14 year old has been chasing cans since she was 3. Paired up with her Paint, Sprats Wild Smoke, for about two years, Grace says she was excited to come try her luck in Fort Worth.
“My grandma saw this event was happen- ing, and so I thought this would be a good opportunity to try it,” she said.
A 2005 sorrel overo mare, Sprats Wild Smoke—better known as “Fancy”—is owned by Grace’s dad, Ronald. The cutting-bred mare is by JR Colord Smoke and out of Miss Sprat.
“She was good. She didn’t really like the dirt, so she was a little sloppy around the bar- rels, but she made three good turns and came out with a good run,” Grace said.
Grace and Fancy clocked a :17.117 to win the PBRIP Hopes & Dreams Barrel Racing Sweepstakes, taking home $882 plus other prizes.
In It To Win It
Speedy Youth Win Big at the 2017 Youth World Show
by Jessica Hein, courtesy APHA
SPRATS WILD SMOKE AND GRACE DAVIS WIN THE PBRIP HOPES & DREAMS BARREL RACING SWEEPSTAKES CHAMPION TITLE.
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