{"id":1118,"date":"2011-12-02T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2011-12-02T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T15:36:00","slug":"1st-round-a-good-one-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/1st-round-a-good-one-for-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Round a Good One For Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=321877434489616&#038;set=a.180975961913098.44235.112614225415939&#038;type=1&#038;theater<\/p>\n<p>It was a big night for Canadian Steer Wrestler Lee Graves and he didn&#8217;t even qualify for the finals!\u00a0\u00a0 He is down there hazing for Trevor Knowles and Jason Miller.\u00a0 PLUS Trevor and Jason are using Lee&#8217;s great horse Jesse!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The duo split first and second with a 3.9 in the round Thursday night, so you can expect Lee will cash in with hazing and mount fees!<\/p>\n<p>There were two Canadian horses that bucked in the Saddle Bronc riding, but neither were able to carry their rider into the pay window.\u00a0 Jesse Wright was on Calgary Stampede horse Knife Money and Jacobs Crawley on the Kesler horse Free Agent.<\/p>\n<p>In the barrel racing the solo Canadian competitor Lindsay Sears split the round with Brittany Pozzi.\u00a0\u00a0 Their time was 14.03. Sears was unable to gain any ground on Pozzi who currently leads the world standings.\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota barrel racer and NFR rookie Britany Fleck tipped a barrel , but the other Northern cowgirl and rookie Jane Melby tied for 4\/5 with Sherry Cervi for a 14.08 second time.\u00a0 Sears was quoted as saying &#8220;the ground felt great, best she&#8217;s seen it for the first round&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Sears on Pozzi were bottom of the ground.\u00a0 \u00a0 That&#8217;s a good sign for future rounds&#8230;.and perhaps a new arena record in the works?<\/p>\n<p>Here is the first round:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i9Mxh0FnR5U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThursday Jane Melby&#8217;s horse RC Back in Black (aka Beauty) were awarded a really special award.\u00a0 The Rising Star Award is awarded to a first time WNFR qualifier to honor all the great ones that should never be forgotten. The Scoti Flit Bar Rising Star Award, is given by WPRA member Lana Merrick in honor of her great NFR horse. Scoti Flit Bar and Merrick qualified for a pair of NFR\u2019s in 1987 and 1989 before Merrick lost her great partner to a rare blood disease.\u00a0\u00a0 RC Back in Black is sired by Ninety Nine Goldmine out of a Royal Quick Dash daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Brittany Pozzi also has a Canadian connection with Rana Koopmans from Lethbridge, AB being her right hand man down there.\u00a0 Rana takes great care of Brittany&#8217;s horses while she tends to the many obligations she has down there.<\/p>\n<p>Another Canadian in the arena this year is\u00a0 CrASH Cooper, the barrel man.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to watch the rodeo (rather than just on the radio) to give a report on his performance \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned and follow us on <a title=\"Rodeoclassifieds on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/rodeoclassifieds\" target=\"_blank\">FACEBOOK <\/a>if you are connected there for more updates and hopefully some video footage and updates coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an interview with Cody Ohl who won the Tie Down roping.\u00a0 On the radio they were saying this was Cody&#8217;s 50th go round win (but they also called Brittany Pozzi&#8230;..Brittany Spears) In this interview I think they say 41 and counting.\u00a0\u00a0 Either way its pretty wild!\u00a0 Can you imagine all those go round buckles!? He&#8217;s probably getting pretty good at his acceptance speech too.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=10150585498218098<\/p>\n<p>Complete barrel racing results:<br \/>\n1) Brittany Pozzi\/Yeah Hes Firen \u2013 14.03 &#8211; $16,009.62<br \/>\n1) Lindsay Sears\/Sugar Moon Express \u2013 14.03 &#8211; $16,009.62<br \/>\n3) Tammy Fischer\/Easy Dash Oak \u2013 14.05 &#8211; $10,673.08<br \/>\n4) Sherry Cervi\/MP Meter My Hay \u2013 14.08 &#8211; $6,057.69<br \/>\n4) Jane Melby\/RC Back In Black \u2013 14.08 &#8211; $6,057.69<br \/>\n6) Jeanne Anderson\/Flaming Fire Bug \u2013 14.19 &#8211; $2,884.62<br \/>\n7) Christina Richman\/Xtrared \u2013 14.24<br \/>\n8 Jill Moody\/Chasin Firewater \u2013 14.27<br \/>\n9) Jody Sheffield\/Skip The Finances \u2013 14.36<br \/>\n10) Brenda Mays\/Judge Buy Cash \u2013 14.58<br \/>\n11) Lisa Lockhart\/An Oakie With Cash \u2013 19.02<br \/>\n12) Carlee Pierce\/Rare Dillion \u2013 19.04<br \/>\n13) Sue Smith\/Real Claim To Fame \u2013 19.31<br \/>\n13) Britany Fleck\/Dasher Dude \u2013 19.31<br \/>\n15) Angie Meadors\/Mulberry Canyon Moon \u2013 19.45<\/p>\n<p>You can find all the other results are <a title=\"NFR Results\" href=\"http:\/\/prorodeo.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.prorodeo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a bunch of really great <a title=\"nfr round one pictures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\/photos\/prcaprorodeo\/sets\/72157628002516403\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\">pictures from the first round<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=321877434489616&#038;set=a.180975961913098.44235.112614225415939&#038;type=1&#038;theater It was a big night for Canadian Steer Wrestler Lee Graves and he didn&#8217;t even qualify for the finals!\u00a0\u00a0 He is down there hazing for Trevor Knowles and Jason Miller.\u00a0 PLUS Trevor and Jason are using Lee&#8217;s great horse Jesse!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The duo split first and second with a 3.9 in the round Thursday night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","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=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}