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Barrel racing is a rodeo event in which a horse and rider attempt to run a cloverleaf pattern around preset barrels in the fastest time. In collegiate and professional ranks, it is usually a women's event, though both sexes compete at amateur and youth levels.
Hailey Kinsel was born on October 3, 1994. She grew up in Cotulla, Texas, with her parents Dan and Leslie Kinsel (née Walker). [1] Her mother, who has an equestrian background, is a former Miss Rodeo Texas in 1980. [2]
James returned to barrel racing in 1992 riding her new horse Cruising on Six, nicknamed Cruiser, and won her 11th WPRA World Barrel Racing Championship title. [3] Guy Clifton, sports writer for the Reno Gazette-Journal and ESPN.com remarked: "Anybody that doubted her abilities, she just proved her abilities by winning with another horse." [11]
Barrel racing is a timed event where horse and rider run a cloverleaf pattern around three preset barrels in the fastest time. The best times are obtained by running around each barrel as close as possible without touching it or knocking it over, which results in a five-second penalty added to total time.
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]
Her horse Tia won the "Horse with the Most Heart" award from the Canadian Finals Rodeo in 1991 and 1992, which is the award honoring the barrel racing horse with the fastest time. [11] By the end of the 1990s, Robinson had moved to Alix, Alberta, when she repeated as Canadian Barrel Racing Champion in 1999, aboard her Quarter Horse Bud.
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In her time, Thurman was one of the top-ranked and fastest barrel racers in the country. She set the fastest time at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) and held that record for a time. She held barrel racing clinics and held the position of barrel racing director in the Girl's Rodeo Association (the predecessor to the Women's Professional Rodeo ...