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Location: Louisiana | ucantcatchme - 2014-10-01 10:20 AM Well Zipper..... You beat me to it! :) I haven't been on here in SOOOO Long! Mainly because barrel racers are really keeping me that busy! HA!
YEARS AGO, Equi-Stat had a minimum $20,000 added for us to enter a show into the database. However, that didn't work.. We had all these big huge shows and horribly low percentages on good names. That does not help our industry. In 2010, we decided to change things up a bit.. OK.. we changed it A LOT!!!! We decided enter ANY size race into the database, but it must have 80% REGISTERED AND NOTED GRADE HORSES. Yes (NR) or (G) will be fine.. and all the other information too like Added money and Number of entries.
SIDE NOTE:::::: Here is a really cool thing that the other disciplines have been doing for years. You give your grade horse a really super cool name to make him/her an individual. For instance.. My good gelding is named Lucky. But I always call him Lucky Longnoggin... yes his head a little long.. HA! What I do when I enter a barrel race is write Lucky Longnoggin (NR) aka Lucky.... and I might go as far as letting them know he is a 9yo brown gelding. I know some of the lines aren't long enough for all that, but at some point maybe I could let some one know. Once the information is in Equi-Stat, I just have to enter as Lucky Longnoggin (I have a place for the alias Lucky) :)
What this does is create an individual IDENTITY for Lucky, otherwise, he is lost in a sea of Lucky's... and trust me.. HE IS MOST DEFINITELY A ONE AND ONLY.. LOL
HORSE 1 And UNKNOWN will not help our industry. We have some of the most amazing stallions out there.... AFFORDABLE world class stallions. You guys won't ever know how great they are because people are entering their offspring with barn names. WHY? Ok so Dash Ta Fame and Frenchmans Guy sell.. Not many barrel racers have heard of the stallion Metallic Cat, so when I enter my mare as just Kitty we are missing something here. (I used Metallic Cat because I wanted to pretend for a minute I had one of his babies!!!) Back to my story.. SQUIRREL! HA! The results for this big huge barrel race I went to comes out and I WON IT ALL! (dreaming again) But It just says 1st is Tysh riding Kitty. She ran a whole second faster than anyone and won $10,000!!! No one ever knows the greatness that is Kitty... and no one is booking to breed to Metallic Cat to own one just like her. Do you follow me???
These horses are wonderful beautiful gifts!! Our partners, best friends & fur-babies... Sometimes they have a bad day. Just like my 13 year old son
at his football game.. or my 6 year old son at his judo tournament.. I wouldn't change their name to hide that they are mine... So they messed up. It's part of learning and part of living. I say this because I have seen so many people use a barn name for that very reason. If they run everything under Horse 1,2 and 3.. and some one does bad.. no one will ever know. YES We all know this anyway, because no horse is absolutely perfect!!! Except for maybe Lucky Longnoggin.. HA!
WE TRACK WPRA RODEOS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just incase you guys didn't know that. Thanks to a few selfless individuals that work their tails off to get this information. Rodeos are different. We don't have to enter ahead of time with a horse name, so this is a TON of work for the volunteers that help me gather this info. THANK YOU FOR THAT TANYA!!!
We have some IPRA & CPRA (Canada) rodeos. Southeastern rodeo assoc.. We have tried to get cooperation with UPRA contestants here in Texas, which was pretty close for some rodeos last year, but not good enough to get them all in.. And these people are working hard to get this information to me. They care with their whole hearts about barrel racing and these great horses!
I would love to get every single barrel race that happens in the US and Canada and Brazil and China and Italy.. EVERYWHERE!!!!!! OMGOSH!! College rodeos!! Wouldn't that be FANTABULOUS to be able to have registered and noted grade horses from college rodeos!!!!?!?!?!?!? And have a statistical on what bloodlines are making good college rodeo horses!!!!!! WHAT ABOUT JUNIOR/YOUTH RODEO!!!! These horses are just as special as the ones that make it to the NFR.. Maybe even more special because they take care of our CHILDREN!!!!!
Some one has to be the person to say.. TODAY it's gonna be different. That's how we got started with WPRA results. Kitty Herrin decided to make it different out in Montana!! The rest is HISTORY!!! Thank you Kitty!
Some things you should know about Equi-Stat.
1. We are based on REPORTED EARNINGS. If they don't send it, we don't have it. It's not that we are inaccurate (yes we make mistakes) it's that PRODUCERS AREN'T SENDING THIS STUFF TO US!! Just email your result file to [email protected] and PLEASE include, City and state where the show is held, the date, added money per class, number of entries per class, rider names with city and state, REGISTERED or NOTED GRADE HORSE NAME, place, time and money earned. It's really simple!!!
2. We are only as good as the good information we are given.
3. We have actually been here since the mid 80s!!
4. We have barrel racing aged events back to the late 80s.
5. There are 5 of us in this ENTIRE department working on Cutting, Reining, Working Cow Horse, Western Pleasure, Hunter Hack, Longe Line, Hunter Under Saddle, Ranch Sorting, Ranch Versatility, Stock Horse, and Barrel Racing..
We split this up in the department and YES, my focus is Barrel Racing. Please remember me when you are entering your horses!! :) My co-workers help me so so much but for the most part it's just me. The better the results, the quicker I can get this stuff in and the MORE I can get in.
If you have any questions, you can reply here or email me. [email protected] I would be happy to answer anything I might have missed.. There's so much in my head and in my heart that I want you all to know about Equi-Stat. We aren't new to the performance horse industry. It's so much better than it was when I started here 13 1/2 years ago. But we can make this so much better!!
OMGOSH!! Flame away!!!!!!
I would like to say thank you! You explained the issue and gave me a better perspective without speaking down to anyone-which we all know doesn't work. Being condesending doesn't make someone want to join your cause, which is the tone I got from the original post and MANY board members.
Because of YOU and a few others, I will be much more likely to use T-Bo's registered name in the future. I can see how it would reflect positively on his breeders, who do have a business of selling barrel prospects.
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | dashnlotti - 2014-10-02 12:54 PM ucantcatchme - 2014-10-01 10:20 AM Well Zipper..... You beat me to it! :) I haven't been on here in SOOOO Long! Mainly because barrel racers are really keeping me that busy! HA!
YEARS AGO, Equi-Stat had a minimum $20,000 added for us to enter a show into the database. However, that didn't work.. We had all these big huge shows and horribly low percentages on good names. That does not help our industry. In 2010, we decided to change things up a bit.. OK.. we changed it A LOT!!!! We decided enter ANY size race into the database, but it must have 80% REGISTERED AND NOTED GRADE HORSES. Yes (NR) or (G) will be fine.. and all the other information too like Added money and Number of entries.
SIDE NOTE:::::: Here is a really cool thing that the other disciplines have been doing for years. You give your grade horse a really super cool name to make him/her an individual. For instance.. My good gelding is named Lucky. But I always call him Lucky Longnoggin... yes his head a little long.. HA! What I do when I enter a barrel race is write Lucky Longnoggin (NR) aka Lucky.... and I might go as far as letting them know he is a 9yo brown gelding. I know some of the lines aren't long enough for all that, but at some point maybe I could let some one know. Once the information is in Equi-Stat, I just have to enter as Lucky Longnoggin (I have a place for the alias Lucky) :)
What this does is create an individual IDENTITY for Lucky, otherwise, he is lost in a sea of Lucky's... and trust me.. HE IS MOST DEFINITELY A ONE AND ONLY.. LOL
HORSE 1 And UNKNOWN will not help our industry. We have some of the most amazing stallions out there.... AFFORDABLE world class stallions. You guys won't ever know how great they are because people are entering their offspring with barn names. WHY? Ok so Dash Ta Fame and Frenchmans Guy sell.. Not many barrel racers have heard of the stallion Metallic Cat, so when I enter my mare as just Kitty we are missing something here. (I used Metallic Cat because I wanted to pretend for a minute I had one of his babies!!!) Back to my story.. SQUIRREL! HA! The results for this big huge barrel race I went to comes out and I WON IT ALL! (dreaming again) But It just says 1st is Tysh riding Kitty. She ran a whole second faster than anyone and won $10,000!!! No one ever knows the greatness that is Kitty... and no one is booking to breed to Metallic Cat to own one just like her. Do you follow me???
These horses are wonderful beautiful gifts!! Our partners, best friends & fur-babies... Sometimes they have a bad day. Just like my 13 year old son
at his football game.. or my 6 year old son at his judo tournament.. I wouldn't change their name to hide that they are mine... So they messed up. It's part of learning and part of living. I say this because I have seen so many people use a barn name for that very reason. If they run everything under Horse 1,2 and 3.. and some one does bad.. no one will ever know. YES We all know this anyway, because no horse is absolutely perfect!!! Except for maybe Lucky Longnoggin.. HA!
WE TRACK WPRA RODEOS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just incase you guys didn't know that. Thanks to a few selfless individuals that work their tails off to get this information. Rodeos are different. We don't have to enter ahead of time with a horse name, so this is a TON of work for the volunteers that help me gather this info. THANK YOU FOR THAT TANYA!!!
We have some IPRA & CPRA (Canada) rodeos. Southeastern rodeo assoc.. We have tried to get cooperation with UPRA contestants here in Texas, which was pretty close for some rodeos last year, but not good enough to get them all in.. And these people are working hard to get this information to me. They care with their whole hearts about barrel racing and these great horses!
I would love to get every single barrel race that happens in the US and Canada and Brazil and China and Italy.. EVERYWHERE!!!!!! OMGOSH!! College rodeos!! Wouldn't that be FANTABULOUS to be able to have registered and noted grade horses from college rodeos!!!!?!?!?!?!? And have a statistical on what bloodlines are making good college rodeo horses!!!!!! WHAT ABOUT JUNIOR/YOUTH RODEO!!!! These horses are just as special as the ones that make it to the NFR.. Maybe even more special because they take care of our CHILDREN!!!!!
Some one has to be the person to say.. TODAY it's gonna be different. That's how we got started with WPRA results. Kitty Herrin decided to make it different out in Montana!! The rest is HISTORY!!! Thank you Kitty!
Some things you should know about Equi-Stat.
1. We are based on REPORTED EARNINGS. If they don't send it, we don't have it. It's not that we are inaccurate (yes we make mistakes) it's that PRODUCERS AREN'T SENDING THIS STUFF TO US!! Just email your result file to [email protected] and PLEASE include, City and state where the show is held, the date, added money per class, number of entries per class, rider names with city and state, REGISTERED or NOTED GRADE HORSE NAME, place, time and money earned. It's really simple!!!
2. We are only as good as the good information we are given.
3. We have actually been here since the mid 80s!!
4. We have barrel racing aged events back to the late 80s.
5. There are 5 of us in this ENTIRE department working on Cutting, Reining, Working Cow Horse, Western Pleasure, Hunter Hack, Longe Line, Hunter Under Saddle, Ranch Sorting, Ranch Versatility, Stock Horse, and Barrel Racing..
We split this up in the department and YES, my focus is Barrel Racing. Please remember me when you are entering your horses!! :) My co-workers help me so so much but for the most part it's just me. The better the results, the quicker I can get this stuff in and the MORE I can get in.
If you have any questions, you can reply here or email me. [email protected] I would be happy to answer anything I might have missed.. There's so much in my head and in my heart that I want you all to know about Equi-Stat. We aren't new to the performance horse industry. It's so much better than it was when I started here 13 1/2 years ago. But we can make this so much better!!
OMGOSH!! Flame away!!!!!!
Because of YOU and a few others, I will be much more likely to use T-Bo's registered name in the future. I can see how it would reflect positively on his breeders, who do have a business of selling barrel prospects.
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