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| SKM - 2014-12-09 6:40 AM outrundaizy - 2014-12-08 7:25 PM I've asked this question before... And I will say now I think I have a horse that can do it, but I will tell you the girl that bought Dillion last year isn't at the NFR. I can't tell you how many other cases there are like that. A lot of times that once in a lifetime horse has a once in a lifetime human as well. I hope if I can get my butt in shape I can get my horse out there too. I've had several offers, but knowing the potential he has and how special he is, is priceless to me. A baby could ride him down time square or I can get on him and win a rodeo. I knew he was good when I bought him, but I didn't know what it felt like to really ride a horse with that much power until I figured him out. We paid the same for him as we did my solid 5D mare who has alley issues and an attitude. The buying of the horse is the least painful of the process. This statement is a little off base. While you are right that Callie didn't make the NFR, she was in the top 25 in the world with over $44,000 won. In many past years that amount would have qualified. Thus was just the toughest year on record. Yes, Callie has an arsenal of nice horses with Dillon being one. But it isn't like she didn't accomplish anything this year and Dillon dropped off the face if the planet. I don't think many people realize how hard it is to be a WPRA Rookie and make the NFR. The cards are stacked against you at the start of the year for all the big indoor rodeos. You have to claw your way to the top by drawing checks at rodeos that you can enter before you can enter the big ones with limits.
From what I saw of Callie and Dillon on TV, she rode the hair off of him and he always worked his butt off. I thought she looked really comfortable/capable on him! Maybe he is just not clocking everytime like he used to??? idk |
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Location: Texas | TyE - 2014-12-09 12:27 PM SKM - 2014-12-09 6:40 AM outrundaizy - 2014-12-08 7:25 PM I've asked this question before... And I will say now I think I have a horse that can do it, but I will tell you the girl that bought Dillion last year isn't at the NFR. I can't tell you how many other cases there are like that. A lot of times that once in a lifetime horse has a once in a lifetime human as well. I hope if I can get my butt in shape I can get my horse out there too. I've had several offers, but knowing the potential he has and how special he is, is priceless to me. A baby could ride him down time square or I can get on him and win a rodeo. I knew he was good when I bought him, but I didn't know what it felt like to really ride a horse with that much power until I figured him out. We paid the same for him as we did my solid 5D mare who has alley issues and an attitude. The buying of the horse is the least painful of the process. This statement is a little off base. While you are right that Callie didn't make the NFR, she was in the top 25 in the world with over $44,000 won. In many past years that amount would have qualified. Thus was just the toughest year on record. Yes, Callie has an arsenal of nice horses with Dillon being one. But it isn't like she didn't accomplish anything this year and Dillon dropped off the face if the planet. I don't think many people realize how hard it is to be a WPRA Rookie and make the NFR. The cards are stacked against you at the start of the year for all the big indoor rodeos. You have to claw your way to the top by drawing checks at rodeos that you can enter before you can enter the big ones with limits.
I'm not saying anything bad about Callie or Dillion or any of her horses. I've seen her run her other horses and they are just as nice. She had an awesome set up, and went to a ridiculous amount of rodeo's and she still didn't make it. That's just the way rodeo works. I'm sure she learned more than she imagined she would her first year and has a good game plan for 2015. My point is, just because you go out and buy proven horses, a nice truck, nice trailer, etc. doesn't mean you are gonna make the NFR. |
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Location: Northeast SD | I think I read somewhere that Callie is a college volleyball player as well, so I doubt she is hauling as hard as most. |
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Location: Deep South | SoDak - 2014-12-09 1:14 PM
I think I read somewhere that Callie is a college volleyball player as well, so I doubt she is hauling as hard as most.
Actually she hit 100 rodeos, which is the max you can run that will count towards the standings. Only 2 other girls hauled that hard this year, both of them qualified. |
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Location: Buffalo, TX | And at the other end of the spectrum, there are the ones who went to 40-50 rodeos and won $1500...yikes!!!...that has to hurt.....at what point do you realize you need a better horse?  |
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| Cindy Hamilton - 2014-12-09 3:59 PM
And at the other end of the spectrum, there are the ones who went to 40-50 rodeos and won $1500...yikes!!!...that has to hurt.....at what point do you realize you need a better horse?
I look at those and think the same thing! But I bet the had fun! |
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Location: Buffalo, TX | FlyingJT - 2014-12-09 4:10 PM Cindy Hamilton - 2014-12-09 3:59 PM And at the other end of the spectrum, there are the ones who went to 40-50 rodeos and won $1500...yikes!!!...that has to hurt.....at what point do you realize you need a better horse? I look at those and think the same thing! But I bet the had fun!
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Location: Bandera, TX | outrundaizy - 2014-12-09 12:51 PM TyE - 2014-12-09 12:27 PM SKM - 2014-12-09 6:40 AM outrundaizy - 2014-12-08 7:25 PM I've asked this question before... And I will say now I think I have a horse that can do it, but I will tell you the girl that bought Dillion last year isn't at the NFR. I can't tell you how many other cases there are like that. A lot of times that once in a lifetime horse has a once in a lifetime human as well. I hope if I can get my butt in shape I can get my horse out there too. I've had several offers, but knowing the potential he has and how special he is, is priceless to me. A baby could ride him down time square or I can get on him and win a rodeo. I knew he was good when I bought him, but I didn't know what it felt like to really ride a horse with that much power until I figured him out. We paid the same for him as we did my solid 5D mare who has alley issues and an attitude. The buying of the horse is the least painful of the process. This statement is a little off base. While you are right that Callie didn't make the NFR, she was in the top 25 in the world with over $44,000 won. In many past years that amount would have qualified. Thus was just the toughest year on record. Yes, Callie has an arsenal of nice horses with Dillon being one. But it isn't like she didn't accomplish anything this year and Dillon dropped off the face if the planet. I don't think many people realize how hard it is to be a WPRA Rookie and make the NFR. The cards are stacked against you at the start of the year for all the big indoor rodeos. You have to claw your way to the top by drawing checks at rodeos that you can enter before you can enter the big ones with limits.
We (old timers) strongly encouraged her to make every rodeo that she could. She needs to know what will make this easier on her for the coming years. Thanks SKM for the comments, Your daughter ready to hit the places she didn't go to next year or follow the same routes as last year? |
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| uno-dos-tres! - 2014-12-09 4:34 PM
outrundaizy - 2014-12-09 12:51 PM TyE - 2014-12-09 12:27 PM SKM - 2014-12-09 6:40 AM outrundaizy - 2014-12-08 7:25 PM I've asked this question before... And I will say now I think I have a horse that can do it, but I will tell you the girl that bought Dillion last year isn't at the NFR. I can't tell you how many other cases there are like that. A lot of times that once in a lifetime horse has a once in a lifetime human as well. I hope if I can get my butt in shape I can get my horse out there too. I've had several offers, but knowing the potential he has and how special he is, is priceless to me. A baby could ride him down time square or I can get on him and win a rodeo. I knew he was good when I bought him, but I didn't know what it felt like to really ride a horse with that much power until I figured him out. We paid the same for him as we did my solid 5D mare who has alley issues and an attitude. The buying of the horse is the least painful of the process. This statement is a little off base. While you are right that Callie didn't make the NFR, she was in the top 25 in the world with over $44,000 won. In many past years that amount would have qualified. Thus was just the toughest year on record. Yes, Callie has an arsenal of nice horses with Dillon being one. But it isn't like she didn't accomplish anything this year and Dillon dropped off the face if the planet. I don't think many people realize how hard it is to be a WPRA Rookie and make the NFR. The cards are stacked against you at the start of the year for all the big indoor rodeos. You have to claw your way to the top by drawing checks at rodeos that you can enter before you can enter the big ones with limits.
Some things will be different. She is limited because of college. The rodeo team is paying for her education so they are her first commitment. That means she's booked solid for 5 weeks in March and April. She will have preference for Denver this year so she'll be running there. Her plan right now is more of her own circuit rodeos. But it really just depends. She's planning Denver, Rapid City, possibly Lincoln and maybe Topeka. Oh and Gillette. Nothing really beyond that. Her mares been off since October so she's rested and ready to get back to work. But if Denver goes well everything could change. |
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Location: In a happy place | stayceem - 2014-12-09 6:14 PM Didn't Callie also get injured this year?
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | Talented jockey + talented horse = NFR lol.
A lot of the NFR girls say money, but if I recall that show rodeo girls... That rich older lady that spent a fortune on her horse and couldn't even place in anything except the like 4D, if at all lol. And had a TOP rodeo horse underneath her, but she rode like crap ALL the time lol.
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| cowdoc101 - 2014-12-08 8:35 PM
Sorta on topic---- I wonder how much the horses at the NFR now cost to begin with? I wonder if any of them got "really good deals" on horses maybe they didn't expect to make it and got great surprises.
Britany Diaz .... Bought Rootie as a yearling for $800 and then trained her in a colt starting class at college.
On the Rodeo Road did an interesting interview with Britany - lots of interesting things on there!
http://ontherodeoroad.com/nfrbarrelracerbritanydiaz/
My fav quote " I was going to college in Chadron, NE when I trained her. She use to run the fence on the first barrel when I first started running her."
She also talks about it taking the mare until she was 6 years old to allow her to mature before patterning her.
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Location: home for the winter...what a dumb idea | I am not sure many of use would ever be able to just buy an winning horse and make it to the NFR .
I think the most important thing is to know your horse and your ability .
Pick pens and rodeos you have a the best chance at
Not haul the legs off your horse especially if you don't have 2 or 3 back up horse
Have a hauling partner who has been there done that.
I don't think anyone can realistically buy there way to the top at the nfr no matter the money this isn't like other sports where you just go out and buy a franchise quarter back and the best players.
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| Phxbarrel - 2014-12-09 6:45 PM Talented jockey + talented horse = NFR lol. A lot of the NFR girls say money, but if I recall that show rodeo girls... That rich older lady that spent a fortune on her horse and couldn't even place in anything except the like 4D, if at all lol. And had a TOP rodeo horse underneath her, but she rode like crap ALL the time lol.
LOL I bet whatever her name is would really love seeing you called her "that rich OLDER lady".  |
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| sorrel horse ranch - 2014-12-09 6:37 PM
stayceem - 2014-12-09 6:14 PM Didn't Callie also get injured this year?
YES!
That's what I thought... I think she did darn good for her first season. I hope to get to see her at the NFR soon and I really wanna see Dillon and Arson! |
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