{"id":1002,"date":"2011-10-05T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2011-10-05T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:35:15","slug":"sierra-stoney-and-honor-before-fame-win-the-heartland-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/sierra-stoney-and-honor-before-fame-win-the-heartland-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Stoney and Honor Before Fame win the Heartland Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things were hot in the short round of the Heartland Derby.\u00a0 Sierra Stoney and 7 year old gelding Honor Before Fame (Flame) made a run most of us will only dream of making.\u00a0\u00a0 On a standard\/regulation pattern the duo ran a smoking time of 16.970, leaving the rest of the 17 second club in the dust.\u00a0\u00a0 The Heartland Futurity format was one long go and a short go with the champion being the fastest of the combined (average) times.\u00a0\u00a0 Sierra and Flame who was bred by and is owned by Cheryl Daines jumped into the lead with their amazing run.\u00a0 Sierra took the time to tell us about Flame and her run in Stettler, AB.<\/p>\n<div>What is the name of the horse you ran in the derby?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Honor Before Fame aka Flame<\/span><br style=\"color: #0000ff;\" \/><br \/>\nHow old is your horse?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/honorbeforefame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1003\" title=\"Heartland Derby Winner Honor Before Fame\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/honorbeforefame-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Honor Before Fame\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/honorbeforefame-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/honorbeforefame.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Flame is 7<\/span><\/p>\n<div>How long have you been running barrels on him?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;ve been running barrels on Flame off and on since his futurity year.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>What is the training background on this horse?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Not sure who started Flame. But Cheryl Daines (his owner) started him on the barrels.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>What is your training and riding style with this particular horse?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">For training style, he is very strong and extremely fast. \u00a0So I try to keep him in my hands and really focused. \u00a0I always try to make things perfect on him with out picking at him or boring him. As for riding style, once I have him tuned up how I like, I just hold on.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>What is it you like best about this horse?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">He has unbelievable strength and speed. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>How did you feel your runs were this past weekend?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">My first run was really nice, he ran a 17.3. Just nice and smooth. But didn&#8217;t run as hard as he could. He got alittle scared from some slick ground so he was still unsure. \u00a0Then in the short I was going for it. I really just had to keep the barrels up and have a smooth run<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">But I decided to go for it. When we took off he kinda took his pocket away to the first, so I kept him out as much as I could then he inhaled it. \u00a0And after that he worked amazing!! \u00a0When I left the third I knew we would be fast but didn&#8217;t think 16.9 fast! And it was really amazing we were so fast cause the ground was a little deeper that day and we were at the bottom of the ground on both runs. So I was pretty pleased to say the least!!<\/span><\/p>\n<div>How do you prepare for your runs (warm up etc)?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Just a plain old warm up trot and lope. Just try and keep him quiet. Nothing to fancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>What kind of saddle do you use?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0Bob marshall treeless<\/span><\/p>\n<div>What kind of pad do you use?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0Saddle right saddle pad<\/span><\/p>\n<div>What kind of bit do you\u00a0use?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Its a LW bit, short shank with a slow square twist with a little chain in the center<\/span><\/p>\n<div>How do you keep your horse in shape?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Just long trot in the pasture and sprinting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>Are there any specific goals you have set for yourself and your horse this season?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">My only goal for myself on him is to keep him working good, because that is a task in itself!<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0What lead you to be a barrel racer?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> My mom got me into barrel racing<\/span><\/p>\n<div>If you were to share a training\/rodeo tip what would it be?<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The way I became a better rider\/barrel racer is by putting butt in the saddle! \u00a0And don&#8217;t always ride the good ones. I&#8217;ve learn&#8217;t way more from the difficult horses, because you really have to think and step out of box to figure out what&#8217;s going to work for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is that winning run so you can have a look and see what you&#8217;ve got to do to be a 16.970 on an outdoor standard pattern!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6I38A1GNms0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Complete results from the Heartland Futurity and Derby that was held at Stettler, AB (Diamond N Ranch)\u00a0 can be seen on the <a title=\"Canadian Barrel Futurities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianbarrelfuturities.com\/heartland.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Barrel Futurities website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things were hot in the short round of the Heartland Derby.\u00a0 Sierra Stoney and 7 year old gelding Honor Before Fame (Flame) made a run most of us will only dream of making.\u00a0\u00a0 On a standard\/regulation pattern the duo ran a smoking time of 16.970, leaving the rest of the 17 second club in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54,51,62,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrel-racing","category-barrel-racing-futurities","category-interviews","category-pedigree","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}