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INCREDIBLE! INCREDIBLE! INCREDIBLE!
One incredible is not enough to describe Horse
Events Inc. last Xtreme Barrel race of the 2009 season.
Another great adjective to describe this year’s final was RECORD
BREAKING! Over 100 prizes,
and over $100,000 paid out in cash! A new arena record set by USHSR
champion Shelby Maxfield of Heber City Utah.
Shelby was reserve champion in the Xtreme 15 held on Friday night
then broke the arena record on Saturday with a 15.071.
Bringing her two day total to $5410.00.
The first
annual Xtreme 15 held on Friday night was AMAZING!
66 runners vying for $11,000 in cash and awards presented to the
top 25. Runners qualified
by running in the 15’s in one of the three prior races of the 2009
season. Options were
purchased two hours before the race giving the spectators an opportunity
to become involved with the event. Colorado cowgirl Sammie Bessert
currently sitting in the top 20 in the world run the fastest time of the
night and was awarded $4000 cash and a custom lettered jacket.
23 contestants received over $1000 in
cash, top 12 money earners for the weekend were.
1.
Jackie Keller
$5949.00
2.
Shelby Maxfield
$5410.00
3.
Sammie Besseret
$4000.00
4.
Edria Day
$2918.00
5.
Kacy Caviler $2093.00
6.
Karla Probst
$1880.00
7.
Rikki Thompson
$1869.00
8.
Colton Oliver
$1785.00
9.
Melanie Jaramillo
$1704.00
10. Helina Thomas
$1615.00
11. Kassie Catoor
$1489.00
12. Bonnie Blain
$1417.00
Newcomer to barrel racing Idaho Falls
cowboy, Mike Crosby was in the lucky zone, he won the rifle that was
given away in the cowboy race on Saturday night and luck stayed with him
as his card was drawn out for the biggest prize of the weekend, a 3
horse all aluminum Lakota horse trailer. Beginners LUCK!
Bonnie Blain not only hit the top
twelve in highest money winners she won the Burns Saddlery custom saddle
in the open class.
18/40 contestant Mesa Mitchell won the
other Burns Saddlery custom saddle, and 9 year old Jacie Steed won the
Yamaha 4 Wheeler.
Derek Dowsett of St. George Utah,
official photographer of Horse Events Inc.
rode a horse for his first time and entered the cowboy race,
Derek was definitely a crowd favorite as his death grip, head bobbing,
run took a wall of 4 people to stop him at the gate.
Who knew squeezing extra hard with your legs made the horse go
faster. Fortunately he
stayed on, and as luck would have it he won the Lucchese boots that was
given away as a drawing for all the cowboys that entered that race.
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THE ROADWAY INN
435-529-1300
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435-529-7483
LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE A BARREL RACER!!
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