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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| clover girl - 2018-04-27 10:05 AM
I don't think "popularity" has anything to do with your draw. If you call in to CES it is random draw. If you call in to a secretary it is the luck of getting in early. I have called in a bunch & the secretaries like me, but I don't get preferential treatment. If the perf is full it is full.
When I ran it was WAY before there was any computer draw! LOL Maybe it's all different now. I didn't mind running in slack though, it was way less nerve-wracking. | |
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| clampitt - 2018-04-27 6:59 AM
Don't know where you live. In Texas an Oklahoma it's a knife fight at them. Most of ones here are a Jack pot each night. The assn like UPRA,CPRA TCRA. are one runs. The contractors have numbers to call in. Timed events one day riding events another. You can buy a permit for most. It's a rodeo. They have it. If it's raining, cold,wind blowing,drag on 10. You have to have a tough horse. It's loud,better be ready when call your name. If all you been going to are jackpots and manicured ground. It takes a year or so to season your horse and you. A jackpot like a golf tournament a rodeo a bar fight. That's where the money is. The adrenalin rush is addictive.
This!!! Up in the midwest they drag every 15 and the ground is bad 9 times out of 10. They make us run on some crazy places, dirt tracks, side gates, I've ran at one where the pattern was so small the fastest time was 11 seconds. Be prepared for anything. | |
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| IowaCanChaser - 2018-04-27 2:25 PM
clampitt - 2018-04-27 6:59 AM
Don't know where you live. In Texas an Oklahoma it's a knife fight at them. Most of ones here are a Jack pot each night. The assn like UPRA,CPRA TCRA. are one runs. The contractors have numbers to call in. Timed events one day riding events another. You can buy a permit for most. It's a rodeo. They have it. If it's raining, cold,wind blowing,drag on 10. You have to have a tough horse. It's loud,better be ready when call your name. If all you been going to are jackpots and manicured ground. It takes a year or so to season your horse and you. A jackpot like a golf tournament a rodeo a bar fight. That's where the money is. The adrenalin rush is addictive.
This!!! Up in the midwest they drag every 15 and the ground is bad 9 times out of 10. They make us run on some crazy places, dirt tracks, side gates, I've ran at one where the pattern was so small the fastest time was 11 seconds. Be prepared for anything.
Dude i ride a 14 hand horse and I still felt like I was on top of the 2nd before I left the 1st on that pattern... | |
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| OhMax - 2018-04-27 3:30 PM
IowaCanChaser - 2018-04-27 2:25 PM
clampitt - 2018-04-27 6:59 AM
Don't know where you live. In Texas an Oklahoma it's a knife fight at them. Most of ones here are a Jack pot each night. The assn like UPRA,CPRA TCRA. are one runs. The contractors have numbers to call in. Timed events one day riding events another. You can buy a permit for most. It's a rodeo. They have it. If it's raining, cold,wind blowing,drag on 10. You have to have a tough horse. It's loud,better be ready when call your name. If all you been going to are jackpots and manicured ground. It takes a year or so to season your horse and you. A jackpot like a golf tournament a rodeo a bar fight. That's where the money is. The adrenalin rush is addictive.
This!!! Up in the midwest they drag every 15 and the ground is bad 9 times out of 10. They make us run on some crazy places, dirt tracks, side gates, I've ran at one where the pattern was so small the fastest time was 11 seconds. Be prepared for anything.
Dude i ride a 14 hand horse and I still felt like I was on top of the 2nd before I left the 1st on that pattern...
My favorite is when the clown blows up a trashcan in the middle of the arena as they're setting barrels, and then leaves giant chunks of plastic everywhere. I was first up and couldn't see second from first cause the smoke from the bomb was still so thick.  | |
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | Find a haulin partner that has been rodeoing for a while... they will help you more then anything :) Good luck! I wanna do it again too
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