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BARREL RACING NEWS
Bringing you the latest news relating to Barrel Racing
Montgomery & Trheavensilluminated Score Select Stallion Stakes Futurity
Molli Montgomery and Tracy Lambert’s Trheavensilluminated (JL Dash Ta Heaven-TR Dashing Badger, Mr Illuminator), aka Cyrus, swept the Select Stallion Stakes Futurity
held March 25-27 and the Barrel Bash in Chickasha, Oklahoma, earning $15,471. Although fresh and playful, the 4-year-old gelding won the first round in :15.464,
which also won the open race, and the second round in :15.584, which was second in that day’s open race. “You’ve got to go fast,” said Montgomery. “I told (Jolene Montgomery, her sister-in-law) it’s like clipping your reins to a bottle rocket. That’s what he feels like when you run him, yet he’s really soft when you go to pull on him.” The gelding previously won the inaugural Lone Star Shootout Futurity
and the first round at the Richest Dinosaur Futurity, and has plans to compete in the upcoming Ruby Buckle, Lucky Dog Futurity (with its Breeders Challenge Qualifier), Royal Crown and Old Fort Days Futurity. Lambert purchased Trheavensilluminated for $30,000 at the 2019 Copper Spring Ranch Sale.
Lazy E Official Sponsor of WCRA TCR
The World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) on April 9 announced a partnership with the Lazy E Ranch and Arena as the official presenting sponsor of the WCRA Triple Crown of Rodeo (TCR), which pays a $1 million bonus to any one or collection of athletes who win first in any three WCRA TCR events.
The official name is now the Triple Crown of Rodeo Presented by Lazy E, which is a premier equine breeding and sales prep facility standing many of the world’s top racing Quarter
Horse stallions with the largest indoor arena dedicated to western sports in the U.S. “Lazy
E Ranch and Arena is proud to be part of the Triple Crown of Rodeo where some of the most authentic and diverse group of athletes
in the rodeo world are showcased,” said Lazy E General Manager and VP Dan Wall. Currently Tacy Kay Webb has positioned herself to win the TCR. Webb won at Cowtown Christmas Championship Rodeo, her second consecutive WCRA major win, putting her in contention to be a millionaire if she wins at Rodeo Corpus Christi in May, becoming the first victor of
the WCRA Triple Crown of Rodeo $1 Million Bonus and the first woman in rodeo to become an overnight millionaire.
Dona Kay Rule & High Valor Win San Angelo Rodeo
Barrel racer Dona Kay Rule, who is sponsored by Kentucky Equine Research, and her 2009 gelding High Valor (Valiant Hero-Rare High, Rare Form) posted the fastest time at the San Angelo Rodeo in :13.96 to clinch the championship title and $16,000. “Somehow I got gifted with Valor at this point in my life,” said Rule, who is a 3-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier. “Valor gives me everything on the pattern.”
Stevi Hillman & Cuatro Fame Score at Red Bluff Round-Up
6-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier Stevi Hillman and her 2007 gelding Cuatro Fame (Dash Ta Fame-Princess Streaks, Streak Laico Bird), aka Truck, won the 2022 Red Bluff Round-Up barrel racing championship for the second time, having won the event in 2017 as well. Hillman
and Truck had a time of :34.42 in two runs for the victory. All the winners at the event each won a Yeti cooler, gold buckle and prize money.
Mark Bugni & JL Roc Lost A Sock Dominate Royal Crown Futurity
Mark Bugni and Jill Lane’s 5-year-old gelding JL Roc Lost A Sock (JL Sirocco-Reddy
To Rebound TB, Red), aka Mighty Mo, took the Royal Crown Race held Feb. 14-20 in Buckeye, Arizona. The pair were second in round one and won round two in :17.023 for a total time of :34.173 for two rounds, earning $32,797 in Futurity, Senior and Open earnings. The win represented their third straight Arizona victory, beginning with the MVP and then the Greg Olson Futurity. Together, they have won $89,000 since Mo’s debut at the BFA World Championships in November. “Jill had me ride him and when
I did, I just felt something in him to where I told Jill I thought I’d really like to have him in my program, and it’s been a blessing that she trusted me to take him home and leave him in my care,” said Bugni.
Wenda Johnson & Macgyver Moonflash Set New Arena Record
Barrel racer Wenda Johnson and 2013 gelding Macgyver Moonflash (First Moonflash- Touched By The Moon, Black Moons Arising), aka Mac, set a New Arena Record of :16.19 at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, besting the previous :16.25 record set earlier this year by World Champion Jordon Briggs.
SPEEDHORSE PHOTO ARCHIVES
Can you identify the horse in this photo? Here’s a hint: The stakes winning stallion is now showing in the halter arena. The answer is on page 200.
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