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| I know it's early, but I made my entries last night for Bonus Race Finals. I'm a little overly excited because I haven't been anywhere yet. Our first weekend race that was supposed to be this weekend rained out.
I'm entered in the Open on Friday, both AM and PM.
I'm entered in the Bonus on Saturday, both AM and PM.
So check in and let's see who's going!!
Edited by Nateracer 2016-05-02 9:52 AM
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | I entered the Thursday sessions - 3 horses in the open and 2 in the bonus race. My plan is to leave after my Thursday night runs and hit rodeos Friday and Saturday nights, though I suppose if I win any additional qualifiers and feel the urge, I could go back up Sunday and late enter in the bonus race. I'm hoping my draws get split up in the running order since I am probably going up alone and won't have help getting horses ready & cooled out. |
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Miss Laundry Misshap
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| rodeowithjoker - 2016-05-02 9:48 AM I entered the Thursday sessions - 3 horses in the open and 2 in the bonus race. My plan is to leave after my Thursday night runs and hit rodeos Friday and Saturday nights, though I suppose if I win any additional qualifiers and feel the urge, I could go back up Sunday and late enter in the bonus race. I'm hoping my draws get split up in the running order since I am probably going up alone and won't have help getting horses ready & cooled out.
Oh my! You'll be one busy gal! I'm not running on Thursday, so if you need help, let me know. I'm not exactly sure when I'll get there, but I know we'd be there by the evening session. |
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| I'm hauling 2 and running one in each session from Thursday night through Saturday night and entering in the bonus pen a second time Sunday morning if I get another qualifier.
I could have condensed it down but I'm coming by myself and still getting the hang of hauling multiples so I didn't want to stress myself or them by running multiples in the same session. |
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Location: SE KS | not surprising ,but the stall are already sold out - so what happens if you don't get a stall while up there? It states, you can't do tie outs or set up pens...... ?????
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Location: Nebraska | Dinero10 - 2016-05-02 1:21 PM not surprising ,but the stall are already sold out - so what happens if you don't get a stall while up there? It states, you can't do tie outs or set up pens...... ?????
Last year she had more stalls hauled in. I think she's working on it right now. Saw a post on fb that she would post there when she had the details figured out. |
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Location: Iowa | This year LEC decided for a fee, you can tie to your trailer/ set up pens. This is only going to be allowed in certain areas and it costs to have the horse at the trailer. per fb bonus race page |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Nateracer - 2016-05-02 9:51 AM rodeowithjoker - 2016-05-02 9:48 AM I entered the Thursday sessions - 3 horses in the open and 2 in the bonus race. My plan is to leave after my Thursday night runs and hit rodeos Friday and Saturday nights, though I suppose if I win any additional qualifiers and feel the urge, I could go back up Sunday and late enter in the bonus race. I'm hoping my draws get split up in the running order since I am probably going up alone and won't have help getting horses ready & cooled out. Oh my! You'll be one busy gal! I'm not running on Thursday, so if you need help, let me know. I'm not exactly sure when I'll get there, but I know we'd be there by the evening session.
Yeah, it will be a busy weekend, but both of the rodeos I plan on entering are in northern Kansas so those won't be terribly long road trips. Also, none of my horses require a terribly lengthy warmup. I could probably run two of them in the same drag if I could tie the second one up in the holding pen LOL. If his schedule permits and my draws are tight, I may recruit my youngest brother to go up and help me. He hasn't run barrels in a couple years but he is fully barrel racer trained. (single college girls take note LOL) |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | memory - 2016-05-02 5:54 PM This year LEC decided for a fee, you can tie to your trailer/ set up pens. This is only going to be allowed in certain areas and it costs to have the horse at the trailer. per fb bonus race page
It just figures that they make this decision after I entered. I would have spread my open runs out over the first Thursday and first Friday sessions, and Matt might have decided to go up and run too. Last year, we pre-entered $1100+ worth of runs only to find out we couldn't tie out, so we ended up drawing out entirely. I find the whole situation kind of funny but it's nice that there is a decent compromise this year. At least this way if I draw up late Thursday night, I'm not locked into driving 2-3 hours in the middle of the night just to get off the LEC grounds. :) |
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Miss Laundry Misshap
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| Did anyone ever hear how many stalls were actually available?
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Location: Running barrels or watching nascar | rodeowithjoker - 2016-05-02 7:41 PM
memory - 2016-05-02 5:54 PM This year LEC decided for a fee, you can tie to your trailer/ set up pens. This is only going to be allowed in certain areas and it costs to have the horse at the trailer. per fb bonus race page
It just figures that they make this decision after I entered. I would have spread my open runs out over the first Thursday and first Friday sessions, and Matt might have decided to go up and run too. Last year, we pre-entered $1100+ worth of runs only to find out we couldn't tie out, so we ended up drawing out entirely. I find the whole situation kind of funny but it's nice that there is a decent compromise this year. At least this way if I draw up late Thursday night, I'm not locked into driving 2-3 hours in the middle of the night just to get off the LEC grounds. :)
IMO, if stalls are selling out, they need to find another facility that will sustain that many entries. I don't know where that is but still. |
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| I was thinking that also....wonder why they couldn't have it at OKC? They have a large enough facility, I think, that could accommodate that many people/horses. The BBR never has an issue with stalls. |
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Miss Laundry Misshap
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| MObrlrcr - 2016-05-03 11:17 AM I was thinking that also....wonder why they couldn't have it at OKC? They have a large enough facility, I think, that could accommodate that many people/horses. The BBR never has an issue with stalls.
At the beginning this was mainly an upper midwest show. It bled into Colorado and OK when Renea moved to OK. There are very few southern events. She did make the Regional event in AR. There aren't very many events to the east and it doesn't go very far west.
This year it seems that it's too big for it's britches. We shall see what happens in the future. I know there are A LOT of folks up here that won't make a trip to OKC for BBR or GA for NBHA worlds due to the distance. She was trying to make it for those folks. |
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| Well, that makes sense. Just thinking in the future she may need to consider another, larger location. It's nice of her to try to be accommodating to all locations and can't imagine it being an easy task. Just thought about OKC maybe being a better, bigger location. It just sounds like a lot of people without stalls at a really great event :)
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Location: SE KS | Dinero10 - 2016-05-02 1:21 PM
not surprising ,but the stall are already sold out - so what happens if you don't get a stall while up there? It states, you can't do tie outs or set up pens...... ?????
Talk to Ashley & Levi, they got stalls at a facility not too far away from the grounds!! |
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Go Your Own Way
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Location: SE KS | What upsets me is charging people to tie out or build a pen when you know you aren't going to have enough. It costs them nothing for us to tie out. They just Nickle and dime you to death.
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Nateracer - 2016-05-03 11:29 AM MObrlrcr - 2016-05-03 11:17 AM I was thinking that also....wonder why they couldn't have it at OKC? They have a large enough facility, I think, that could accommodate that many people/horses. The BBR never has an issue with stalls. At the beginning this was mainly an upper midwest show. It bled into Colorado and OK when Renea moved to OK. There are very few southern events. She did make the Regional event in AR. There aren't very many events to the east and it doesn't go very far west.
This year it seems that it's too big for it's britches. We shall see what happens in the future. I know there are A LOT of folks up here that won't make a trip to OKC for BBR or GA for NBHA worlds due to the distance. She was trying to make it for those folks.
My thought is that the stall situation would sort itself out a little more if everyone wasn't allowed to enter each horse 4 times. If you could only run twice, more people would be in and out in a day or two, and then folks could double up on stalls.....sell the stall for $40 for one night, $60 for two nights, $75 for three nights/the entire weekend. I don't guess there is a perfect way to accomodate everyone who wants to spend the weekend there, and really I'm just happy that this year I entered conservatively and will not be financially devastated if I don't hit a big check up there. |
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Location: Nebraska | Dinero10 - 2016-05-03 12:44 PM What upsets me is charging people to tie out or build a pen when you know you aren't going to have enough. It costs them nothing for us to tie out. They just Nickle and dime you to death.
I think that's the lec not her. I've heard several things about the newer management. They've done a lot of updating, maybe stalls will be in the future..especially if they can attract these bigger events. |
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Location: MO | I think they charge you because of insurance reasons. I am sure there insurance for that show will go up considerably with tie outs. Renea is doing what she can to accomadate and if the LEC says she has to charge, then she has to charge. They are also the ones stating that it HAS to be on the grass lot with RV hook up. SHe is looking around the area for boarding facilities to see if they can help out. This race has grown so much in the few years it has been around, and I am sure she will be on top of it because of this.
If they didn't charge to tie out...majority would probably want to do it, and they can't have that either. |
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Location: MO | Nateracer - 2016-05-03 10:42 AM Did anyone ever hear how many stalls were actually available?
I read in the rules just over 700 stalls available. I went to the LEC site and it was hard to find but there is another barn that they can set up for additional stalls and I am sure she has already planned that out. |
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