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| Me and my horses are ready to fill my permit & I'm beyond excited. I just turned 18 and want to start my rookie year. I want to hear any advice to get me going! I also am having trouble finding a traveling buddy. I live in Illinois and know no one that competes in WPRA or any rookie looking to hit the road. Is there anything I can do to get myself out there in contact with someone looking for a traveling partner. I'd rather not do it alone! |
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 Googly Goo
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| I have no advice but I wish you the best of luck. |
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Location: Idaho | Id say if you want to make a run at the rookie title, that you fill your permit now and buy another permit to finish this year. Then when the new season starts( in October) you buy your card and hit the trail! That way you have a full season to win money as a rookie. If you fill your permit now and buy your card, the money you won on your permit wont count and you will only have from now to October to hit rodeos and win money. If winning the rookie isnt something you are after, You can fill your permit and buy your card now and get into some rodeos that only allow cards... Id get to know some other barrel racers and let them know you are trying to find someone to travel with. Either someone will tell you to hop in or they might know someone who needs someone to split fuel with. Good Luck! :) |
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 Quiet Riot
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Location: North Dakota | If you have facebook, go onto facebook and each circuit has their own page, join the one you are going to desinate as your circuit (which will probably be the Great Lakes one??)and ask on there about travel partners! Good luck and have fun! |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | So you can fill your permit either by PRCA rodeos or at WPRA approved divisional races with 1D money. Like someone else said, if you fill your permit mid year- like between now and October 1- buy a second permit to run on until October 1 and then buy your card.
My advice is, know your horse and know when to go home. I have two pretty nice horses. One of them took to rodeos very fast, and is the one I filled my permit on. The other one is a new mare I got in February of this year. We have had some pretty good success at the divisional races, so I entered up at a few pro rodeos. I could tell immediately even in slack she wasn't ready. I ended up going home mid week because I felt that I would unravel her if I kept running at the rest of the ones I was entered at. So we are back to divisional races and I will wait to enter more rodeos once I am back on my first mare. |
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Fire Ant Peddler
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| You better have a fat wallet and very good vet skills because you will need both. |
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Location: Kansas | Take it baby step by baby step. Enter events close to you on your permit. As you win money on it branch farther out. When entering and competing, you will meet others, develope friendships and end up with others to haul with who will share their entering knowledge.
Untill your permit is filled you don't need to worry about rooky status
Good luck and I wish you the best
(the 3rd time editing  is the charm)
Edited by Sangria 2014-06-22 11:00 PM
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| Honeymoney - 2014-06-22 9:07 PM
You better have a fat wallet and very good vet skills because you will need both.
This is so not true. We have neither. So far my daughters bank account is growing after all her expenses. But she isn't entering every single rodeo on the planet. Our last vet bill was in March when we got the mares hocks done.Be smart about where you go. Pay attention to the added money and map out your goals. If you don't have a lot of money then be realistic about where you enter. Maybe start at some smaller Ines. If you do well at them, enter some tougher ones. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | If you wear a snap shirt, wear a tank top under it |
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You get what you give
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Location: Texas | SKM - 2014-06-23 7:00 AM
Honeymoney - 2014-06-22 9:07 PM
You better have a fat wallet and very good vet skills because you will need both.
This is so not true. We have neither. So far my daughters bank account is growing after all her expenses. But she isn't entering every single rodeo on the planet. Our last vet bill was in March when we got the mares hocks done.Be smart about where you go. Pay attention to the added money and map out your goals. If you don't have a lot of money then be realistic about where you enter. Maybe start at some smaller Ines. If you do well at them, enter some tougher ones.
This is good information.
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| casualdust07 - 2014-06-23 12:46 PM
SKM - 2014-06-23 7:00 AM
Honeymoney - 2014-06-22 9:07 PM
You better have a fat wallet and very good vet skills because you will need both.
This is so not true. We have neither. So far my daughters bank account is growing after all her expenses. But she isn't entering every single rodeo on the planet. Our last vet bill was in March when we got the mares hocks done.Be smart about where you go. Pay attention to the added money and map out your goals. If you don't have a lot of money then be realistic about where you enter. Maybe start at some smaller Ines. If you do well at them, enter some tougher ones.
This is good information.
I agree with this - it's not all about the money! Pick and choose, you will always meet people along the way, and eventually you'll find some traveling partners that you like! I don't have a fat wallet and I was able to buy my permit and plan my whole summer out without breaking the bank. Just set realistic goals! That's what I figured out. Enter smart, and pick good pens for YOUR horse. Oh and sometimes traveling with buddies isn't all it's cracked up to be =) I know a LOT of people who if they can afford to go alone...they do!!  |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | barrelracr131 - 2014-06-23 7:42 AM
If you wear a snap shirt, wear a tank top under it
For Sure!!! I've had my oops moments many times!!!  |
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| Before you call in for a rodeo do a YouTube search and try to find a video of someone running in that particular pen so you know if it's something your horse is going to like. A lot of the places where they have rodeos are either set up different than the pen is for a barrel race or they don't even have barrel races. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Go live your dream and lots of luck to ya  |
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