{"id":1137,"date":"2011-12-04T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2011-12-04T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T14:22:31","slug":"first-barrel-racing-go-round-buckle-heads-to-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/first-barrel-racing-go-round-buckle-heads-to-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"First Barrel Racing Go Round Buckle Heads to Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s first barrel racing round win was made tonight. The States first ever cowgirl to qualify for the NFR made them proud as Jane Melby and RC Back In Black won the round in 13.83 seconds. &#8220;Beauty&#8221; as she is called by those close to her is sired by the Saskatchewan stallion Ninety Nine Goldmine and out of a Royal Quick Dash daughter. When you watch the mare run, she&#8217;s one you know is FAST. Tonight&#8217;s win confirmed that notion.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Sears had a solid run placing 6th in the round with a 14.02. She fell 0.01 behind Sherry Cervi in the average who ran a 14.00. Watch for the pair to flip flop all week in the average. Brittany Pozzi maintains her world lead placing second in the third round.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56Y-g3kTifA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the steer wrestling Lee Graves continued to cash in while hazing and lending his horse Jesse out to Jason Miller (3rd) and Trevor Knowles (5th).<\/p>\n<p>Kaycee Feild became the second bareback rider in Wrangler National Finals Rodeo history to win each of the first three rounds of the Finals when he marked 90.5 points on Mosbrucker Rodeos\u2019 Magic Wars<\/p>\n<p>Round 3 Winners:<br \/>\nBareback: Kaycee Feild Score: 90.5 (3 in a row!) on Mosbrucker Rodeo&#8217;s Magic Wars<br \/>\nSteer Wrestling: Shawn Greenfield Time: 3.5 (riding Todd Suhn\u2019s horse, Maximus)<br \/>\nTeam Roping: Tie &#8211; Kaleb Driggers\/Brad Culpepper Time: 4.1 &amp; Turtle Powell\/Jhett Johnson Time: 4.1<br \/>\nSaddle Bronc: Jesse Wright Score: 88.5 (on Frontier Rodeo Company\u2019s Tip Off)<br \/>\nTie Down: Cory Solomon Time: 7.6 (NFR rookie and first go round win)<br \/>\nBarrels: Jane Melby Time: 13.83 (NFR rookie and first go round win)<br \/>\nBulls: Jacob O&#8217;Mara Score: 88.5 (the youngest in the field \/on Four L &amp; Diamond S Rodeo&#8217;s Big Iron)<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremonies paid tribute to the horsepower in the bucking chutes. Video footage was played of Skitso &amp; Painted Smile &amp; and another special horse&#8230;.I can&#8217;t put a name to (help me please!?). Skitso &amp; Painted Smile were let out to tour the arena:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAo09AfzNEM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Complete barrel racing results from the 3rd round:<br \/>\n1) Jane Melby\/RC Back In Black \u2013 13.83 &#8211; $17,884.62<br \/>\n2) Brittany Pozzi\/Yeah Hes Firen \u2013 18.99 &#8211; $14,134.62<br \/>\n3) Angie Meadors\/Mulberry Canyon Moon \u2013 14.00 &#8211; $9,086.54<br \/>\n3) Sherry Cervi\/MP Meter My Hay \u2013 14.00 &#8211; $9,086.54<br \/>\n5) Sue Smith\/Real Claim To Fame \u2013 14.01 &#8211; $4,615.38<br \/>\n6) Lindsay Sears\/Sugar Moon Express \u2013 14.02 &#8211; $2,884.62<br \/>\n7) Jeanne Anderson\/Flaming Fire Bug \u2013 14.17<br \/>\n8\u00a0 Lisa Lockhart\/An Oakie With Cash \u2013 14.22<br \/>\n9) Tammy Fischer\/Easy Dash Oak \u2013 14.25<br \/>\n10) Brenda Mays\/Judge Buy Cash \u2013 14.27<br \/>\n11) Christina Richman\/Xtrared \u2013 14.33<br \/>\n12) Jill Moody\/Chasin Firewater \u2013 14.36<br \/>\n13) Carlee Pierce\/Rare Dillion \u2013 18.73<br \/>\n14) Jody Sheffield\/Skip The Finances \u2013 19.09<br \/>\n15) Britany Fleck\/Dasher Dude \u2013 19.39<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if you can see this page if you are not a Facebook member but its worth a try. There are some great interviews from each of the round winners <a title=\"NFR videos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/National-Finals-Rodeo-2009\/136680406518\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nHere is one with <a title=\"Jane Melby interview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=2534383312516&amp;set=vb.136680406518&amp;type=2&amp;theater\">Jane Melby<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Round 4 of the Wrangler NFR will be a rare matinee performance to accommodate the running of the Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Las Vegas Marathon on Sunday evening. The rodeo performance will begin at 12:45 p.m. PST on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s first barrel racing round win was made tonight. The States first ever cowgirl to qualify for the NFR made them proud as Jane Melby and RC Back In Black won the round in 13.83 seconds. &#8220;Beauty&#8221; as she is called by those close to her is sired by the Saskatchewan stallion Ninety Nine Goldmine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,7,9,31,55,37,12,40,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bareback","category-barrel-racing","category-national-finals-rodeo","category-pro-rodeo","category-saddle-bronc","category-steer-wrestling","category-team-roping","category-tie-down-roping","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","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=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodeoclassifieds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}