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The Camas Prairie Stump Race is a barrel race which is also a match race: two horses race against each other on identical circuits opposite the start-finish line; the riders start beside each other facing in opposite directions, and the first horse and rider back across the line win the race. The races continue until all but the last is eliminated.
Charmayne James (born June 23, 1970) is an American former professional rodeo cowgirl who specialized in barrel racing. In her career, She won 11 Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) barrel racing world championships, the most in history. She won ten consecutive world championships from 1984 to 1993, and then a final one in 2002.
Scamper is the first barrel horse inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1996. [8] In 2017, the ProRodeo Hall of Fame announced its inductees for the year and they included another timed-event horse, barrel racing horse, Star Plaudit (Red), so Scamper will no longer be the sole barrel racing horse in the hall. [9]
Bucephalus, favorite horse of Alexander the Great; one of the most famous horses of antiquity; following his death after the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE, Alexander promptly founded the city of Bucephala upon the spot in his memory; Chetak, war horse of Maharana Pratap of Mewar in India; died defending its master in 1576 during the Battle of ...
Peterson started out her barrel racing career with Bozo in aged events, something she had not tried before. In her first two years at futurities and derbies in 1991 and 1992, she earned almost $150,000. In December 1992, Bozo won the Barrel Futurities of America World Championship Derby and Sweepstakes.
As well as being a hall of fame barrel racer, she is also a 4-time World Barrel Racing Champion. In December 1994, 1996, 1997, and 1998, she won the championship at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas, Nevada. [5] With Peterson's first world title in 1994, she ended hall of fame Charmayne James' 10 year streak of world titles. [1]
Kincsem: Hungarian race mare and most successful racehorse ever, winning all 54 starts in five countries; Kindergarten: weighted more than Phar Lap in the Melbourne Cup; Kingston: all-time record holder of the most wins by a horse with 89; Kingston Town: won three Cox Plates; first Australian horse to top $1million in stakes earnings
Her second horse, Sonny Bit O'Both, brought her to the NFR four consecutive years (1978-1981). Sonny is the only horse in history to win both the AQHA and the WPRA championships in the same year. [5] In 1980, she won the barrel racing world championship at the NFR, the highest title in professional barrel racing. [7]