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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Some of you might remember my gray horse Chance and all the soreness problems we had this spring, as well as the borderline hateful comments made on a thread I posted about him. He's had a limited schedule this summer while we sorted everything out, but the last month, he has finally felt like his real self again. Still, we hadn't put together a really top notch run all year, so I was THRILLED when he clocked in the 1D Saturday at a 115-horse race despite stumbling at the second barrel. When our district NBHA got cancelled for Sunday, I decided to go ahead and run on Day 2 of the race and see if my old bay could somehow win the 4D average buckle. I knew Chance was capable of being several tenths faster than he was Saturday, but he shaved a full half second off our time and won the Sunday race with the fastest time of the weekend. There was a saddle for the 1D average winner and we took the lead for it with our run, but Saturday's winner beat us by .039 seconds so we had to "settle" for winning the jackpot and a bonus race qualifier. lol.
Here is his run -- http://youtu.be/IkICPFKTRIs?list=UU3h0VmyuYbqBRUor4JBQVlA |
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 Experienced Mouse Trapper
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Location: North Dakota | WOW that was beautiful! |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | Good job! |
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | Nice run! It feels so good to bring one back. |
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 Pork Fat is my Favorite
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | happy for you!! Next up--- champion bred Streak!! The lady who won the Barrel Bash was riding a Designated Driver and both of Junes horses are out of her great Joyful Hope mare. So he is "winner" on both sides- no pressure:) |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Beautiful run!! I'm so glad that your determination to get to the root of his problem has paid off and that he's back and running! |
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 Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | And it looked so effortless! That is the best kind, nice job! I can't wait until we see these videos of Steak also.. since he tried to give me lice and all.. LOL!
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Thanks!! It has been a rough summer with only getting to run him a handful of times. Seemed like every 4 weeks he'd pull a shoe and miss a weekend so we never really did get our timing down until the last couple months. Which unfortunately means we'll miss making URA Finals this year but maybe next year will be better to us. I know now that when he becomes a 2D horse, we have some maintenance to do.
As far as Streak goes, he has so much potential but then some days he acts like we've never worked on turning to the right. I know that's part of the process but its still maddening LOL. I'm hauling him this month to a weeknight series and hoping we get some things lined out in the process. At any rate, I love him and am so glad he's in my pasture. :) |
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| Awesome job, girl! Doesn't it feel awesome when they come back so strong? My horse that I was having lameness issues with came back and made two 1D runs this past week, so it must be the week for it! Congrats on a very pretty run! |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | bowersk - 2014-09-15 10:35 AM Awesome job, girl! Doesn't it feel awesome when they come back so strong? My horse that I was having lameness issues with came back and made two 1D runs this past week, so it must be the week for it! Congrats on a very pretty run!
Thank you, and yes it does!!! Matt can take some of the credit for this run because I was also #54 in the race and was cooling that horse out when I needed to be walking Chance to start his warmup, so Matt hopped on and walked him from draw 56 until 65 so I could take care of Joker. I'm still trying to get him to tell me what he did to spark that kind of a run! Glad yours is also coming back - it is a great feeling when the hard work of fixing them pays off! |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| That was about as perfect as they come!! |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Griz - 2014-09-15 11:23 AM That was about as perfect as they come!!
Thanks!! I knew he had started a good one at the second barrel and all I could think going to third was DON'T SCREW IT UP NOW!!!! LOL. I really needed a 16.98 to win & set my Joker and Matt's Joker up for 4D money but Chance was apparently gunning for that average saddle LOL. |
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| That run was beautiful. Love your hands and how you stay out of his way! Congrats!  |
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 A Gopher's Worst Nightmare
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Location: Southern Oregon | Great run! And from the looks of it he has a lot more speed to give. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Sweet, you deserve all kinds of good feelings for your work has paid off. Isn't it a great feeling when you wait on something to come into its own and know you've not pushed the point? |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Thank you!!
I don't know that he has more speed, but he is pretty deceptive with that long stride so when he makes a smooth run, he generally clocks. My job really is to just stay out of his way and only make small adjustments during the run, and for once, I think I actually did that yesterday. Most of all I'm glad I finally gave him the ride he needed. |
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Location: Florida | Beautiful run. Is he My Designated Driver bred? |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Vickie - 2014-09-15 1:45 PM Beautiful run. Is he My Designated Driver bred?
Thanks!!
No, Chance is registered as Harlans Dash. He is double bred Harlan on the top side and Dash for Cash/Azure Te on the bottom.
Streak (Royal Red Streaker) is a My Designated Driver son that TurnLane rescued and rehabbed. I'm training him to run barrels and having a blast because he is the happpiest horse I've ever been around. He just loves getting to do stuff and hopefully he'll turn into a fun, solid barrel horse someday.
Edited by rodeowithjoker 2014-09-15 1:57 PM
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| Wow, perfect run!! |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | Awesome!!! MUCH improvement. You can tell he feels good in this video…so glad you got him figured out! |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | casualdust07 - 2014-09-15 2:45 PM Awesome!!! MUCH improvement. You can tell he feels good in this video…so glad you got him figured out!
What's funny is that Matt said he had to get after Chance to even get him to walk warming up. I was actually a little worried when he told me that before I got on but apparently Chance was just saving his energy for the arena.  |
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| Congrats! Can I borrow him till I get a new horse? Haha j/k. Love watching ya run! |
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 Hero of the Year
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Location: Haslet, Texas | Nice Run!!  |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas |
You'd give him back - he's a brat. LOL.
But thanks. I am so very fortunate to have him in my lineup, even if he is a professional at missing saddles by the tiniest of margins. That is the third one we've missed by less than 2/10ths of a second. Luckily being a bridesmaid in those cases has still paid pretty well. lol. |
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  Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | Oh Wow! Yay for you and Chance. |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | Awesome!!! |
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 Half-Eaten Cookies
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | That was great!!! He looked like he was really firing for you! |
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Chance is back!!!!! w/video