Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from RodeoClassifieds.com

2008 has been and exciting year for me personally and here at RodeoClassifieds.com We have many more exciting things to look forward to in 2009.

I have been back on the bandwagon working on the "new" RodeoClassifieds.com. This has been a project in the works for quite some time, but we are on a big push now to launch it in January. The new software we will be using will allow you as visitors to watch ads, save ads, print ads as well as edit your own ads. You will be allowed multiple pictures and be able to include complete pedigrees. It will be quite a change, pretty much a brand new site. I am sure we will have some growing pains, but I assure you that there will be so many exciting benefits you will enjoy the new site.

Thank you for your business and friendship in 2008. I look forward to promoting your ads in 2009 and making it our best year yet!

From my barn to yours, I hope you have a Christmas full of love and happiness and a season full of blessings.

Here's hoping 2009 brings you smooth runs and fast times.

Cheers!
Michelle
www.RodeoClassifieds.com

Trevor Brazile shows FanHouse dude how to rope

Found this online - kind of funny (probably funnier if you are bored). It was done last year. Enjoy.

M

Round 9 & 10 Videos

2008 World Champion Recaps




Round 10 Barrel Racing


Round 9 Barrel Racing


Go here for any other rounds you might have missed

First Canadian World Champion Barrel Racer Crowned

Lindsay Sears and Martha are the first Canadian World Champion Barrel Racing team - that is SO EXCITING. I had a feeling all day she was going to break the world record time so I'm feeling a little disappointed she didn't. I mean....she broke every other record! ? Weird how when someone gets so darn good our (my) expectations just keep getting higher and higher. Good for her for letting someone else win for a change though eh? (threw that eh in there for our US visitors...they liked that in Vegas..lol). Martha won 5 of the 10 rounds and placed 3rd in the average even with a tipped barrel.

From www.prorodeo.com
Barrel racer Lindsay Sears clinched her first world title after Round 8, so the only question remaining in that event was how much the Canadian would win and how high she would set the season earnings record bar. Sears, of Nanton, Alberta, finished the season as the sport's first $300,000 barrel racer, earning $323,570 in 2008 while claiming the gold buckle. Her horse, Martha, was named AQHA Barrel Racing Horse of the Year, and Sears has been more than complimentary when talking about the talented horse.

"I''m very honored and very proud to be Canadian today, and it means a lot to get the first barrel racing world championship that we get to take home to Canada," said Sears, who finished third in the Wrangler NFR average. "It''s been such a surreal year this year. It''s unbelievable. I''m so thankful that I have such an awesome horse. Martha''s really the world champion. She deserves it, and I''m so proud of her."

Sears won five of the 10 rounds in Las Vegas, including four in a row from Rounds 6-9, to pocket $139,002 at the Wrangler NFR. Jill Moody of Letcher, S.D., won the Wrangler NFR average with a total time of 140.11 seconds, earning $104,117 in Las Vegas to finish a distant second to Sears with $218,880 in total earnings. Terra Bynum won the 10th round in 13.70 seconds to finish her 2008 Wrangler NFR on a high note.


Here is the link to Lindsay's round 9 win I missed earlier

And how about Rod Hay - Finally able to show is stuff in the 10th round drawing well to take the win with an 89 point ride on Miss Congeniality. Here is the link. Jeff Chapman won another round in the 10th with a 7.1.

Canadian Barrel Racers Traci Dawson and Deb Renger weren't able to add any more money to their bank account in the last round. Dawson with a Barrel and Renger with another solid run - just out of the money.

Dusty LaValley didn't take any coin home in the last round, but will gladly take his third place average check from the pay window.

Curtis Cassidy ended the week with a bit of tough luck, but the Cassidy family will still be well paid as Willy was hard at work all week helping the new world champion Luke Branquino. Cassidy will be happy to have taken a 4th place cheque home in the final round.

World Champions include:
2008 World Champion Bareback Rider: Justin McDaniel
2008 World Champion Steer Wrestler: Luke Branquinho
2008 World Champion Header: Matt Sherwood
2008 World Champion Heeler: Randon Adams
2008 World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider: Cody Wright
2008 World Champion Tie-Down Roper: Stran Smith (a very exciting race to the end!)
2008 World Champion Barrel Racer: Lindsay Sears
2008 World Champion Bull Rider: J.W. Harris

For detailed interviews from the world champs click here for PRCA story

For Graham and a bit of round 9 reporting

Graham, here's some team roping reporting for you....
Sadly, I'm home from Vegas...its 2 am here (but only midnight in Vegas so I'm wide awake).

LAS VEGAS - The grandest stage in ProRodeo can often inspire greatness, and that certainly was the case in the team roping during Round 8 of the 50th Wrangler National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center. Travis Tryan and Cory Petska not only won the round, but also thrilled the 17,463 in attendance by tying the PRCA world record with a blistering 3.5-second time. Their mark ties the record shared by Blaine Linaweaver and Jory Levy (2001), Clay Tryan and Patrick Smith (2005) and Colter Todd and Cesar de la Cruz (2008).

It was the first round victory of the 10-day rodeo for Tryan and Petska and just their third check in the first eight performances, but they made it count in a major way.

"It's the coolest feeling I've ever had in my roping career," said Tryan, of Billings, Mont. "I got emotional after the run. I threw my hat, and I never do that. I had a feeling tonight that we were going to break the record, which I've never had before in my life, and can't explain why. When I was riding up to the box, I was thinking we were going to get the record. We had a great steer that stayed straight, maybe even stepped to the right a little, which helped us be fast because it helped my horse quicken up a little because he doesn't duck too hard, so it made things happen fast."

Petska is honored to have a share of the world record.

"I don't think it's set in yet that we just tied the world record," said Petska, of Lexington, Okla. "I got a little emotional at first. I was the same as Travis said, when we started to do the TV interview, I was a little worried that I would choke up. You own a piece of history."

Trevor Brazile and Patrick Smith continue to lead the Wrangler NFR average race and are on pace to crush the average record of 59.1 seconds for 10 head set by Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper in 1994. They have a 41.4-second total through eight rounds and need only to finish the final two rounds in less than 17.6 seconds to lower the record mark.

Here is the link to that Run

Lindsay and Martha keep setting records and keep getting faster. Looks like they made another awesome run in the 9th round (will link tomorrow when its up). A 13.53 The world record is a 13.52 set by Brandie Halls (to correct any misleading info I might have posted earlier...). The 10th round will have the crowd on their feet cheering for the fastest time ever in the Thomas and Mack

Rod Hay and Dusty LaValley both grabbed cheques in the 9th round and Curtis Cassidy was empty handed with a NT. Deb Renger and Traci Dawson each took a barrel down according to Friday's results.

There are also some great interviews with round winners from the WPRA if you might like to read those...click here

Round 8 Barrel Racing Video

I taped this video tonight from Toby Keith's - I love this Bar & Grill. Its got the bar sound in the background and a few comments from the peanut gallery but you will get to watch Lindsay and Martha's record breaking run. AWESOME!

Round Winning Interviews

If you want to listen to some interviews from the round winners and some other "big names" Click Here

I listened to the Round 7 barrel racing and steer wrestling interviews and they were really good.

Last night I went to "National Finals Tonight" at the Gold Coast. It was really great. Here is the link so you can watch it live or watch past interviews. Its great.

Sears is sewing it up!

Lindsay Sears and her horse Martha are sewing up a world championship. Mathematically she could be beat, but if past performance dictates anything Martha should be on track to beat a world record. Martha is known to get faster and faster with every run and that is what is happening. 4 one hundredths from the record last night, it will be exciting to watch tonight and see if she can get it done. I watched Lindsay accept her round buckle from the 6th round and she said that Martha was handling the ground better every night as they got closer to the top of the ground. If Martha wins the world she will be the first horse in over 40 years to have run to the left and won. She will also join a handful of mares to be on the list.

2 Canadian horses also dominated the Steer Wrestling. Willy (with Curtis) tying for first Jesse (with Trevor Knowles)
When you click the link above

Martha makes a move

Lindsay Sears rocked the Thomas and Mack Tuesday evening. They had a blazing run of 13.68, the fastest time run so far at the 50th annual National Finals Rodeo. (***Video Link Added***) Here are the complete results followed by the world standings. Jill Moody and Maegan Reichert and the only two ladies to leave all the barrels standing, that puts Lindsay in 3rd in the average followed by Cassie, Brittany then Deb. Deb had another solid run for her 6 year old Harley. Traci Dawson rode Cabri. He looked a little cautious on the way to second and took down second 3/4 way around cranking a turn. He had a tough time handling the ground at third. I'm sure he will be back in the game tonight if she choses to ride him again in the 7th round.

Round 6
1 Lindsay Sears, 13.68, $16,766.83
2 Brittany Pozzi-Pharr, 13.81, $13,251.20
3 Jill Moody, 13.88, $10,006.01
4 Lisa Lockhart, 13.99, $7,031.25
5 Brenda Mays, 14.05, $4,326.92
6 Maegan Reichert, 14.10, $2,704.33
7 Mary Burger, 14.11
8 Terra Bynum, 14.21
9 Shelley Murphy, 14.27
10 Deb Renger, 14.29
11 Annesa Self, 18.70
12 Cassie Moseley, 19.03
13 Tammy Key-Fischer, 19.17
14 Stephanie Fryar, 19.25
15 Traci Dawson, 19.38

WPRA NFR Standings after Round 6
Contestant WNFR World Standings
1 Lindsay Sears $56,790.87 $241,358.30
2 Brittany Pozzi-Pharr $61,117.79 $196,346.46
3 Jill Moody $42,728.37 $157,491.99
4 Cassie Moseley $54,627.40 $114,380.70
5 Annesa Self $11,358.17 $109,477.23
6 Shelley Murphy $4,326.92 $107,218.82
7 Brenda Mays $8,654.84 $97,703.08
8 Mary Burger $10,006.01 $96,506.18
9 Maegan Reichert $24,338.94 $90,162.33
10 Lisa Lockhart $18,389.42 $90,071.58
11 Stephanie Fryar $17,037.26 $78,149.92
12 Tammy Key-Fischer $5,408.66 $74,191.18
13 Traci Dawson $2,704.33 $73,346.97
14 Terra Bynum $7,031.25 $68,273.71
15 Deb Renger $- $58,981.94

Lee Graves's horse Jesse won the steer wrestling in round 6, ridden by Beau Franzen. Rod Hay didn't great the greatest horse again and Dusty LaValley did all he could with his draw. Curtis Cassidy had a solid run, but a little long for the big cheque.

Hopefully our YouTube friend will post some video for us soon and I'll post the link for you.

Until next time,
Michelle

Live from Las Vegas - Barrel Racing Video Catch Up

Brittany Pozzi-Pharr took another round last night in the 5th go. Click for the link to her winning run and watch for a video of the fifth round coming soon.

None of the links on the prorodeo.com page seem to be working for me to give you the official results. I watched the rodeo live last night from Toby Keith's Bar and Grill. It was pretty cool. We taped the barrel race for you guys on a digital camera but it turns out my friend brought the TV cord instead of the computer cord and our cards don't swap out to my camera and my computer isn't reading the card. Technology...good when it works. We will try my camera tonight and see how we do. Right now I'm off to find some rodeo tickets and do some shopping. We were late getting to the ticket exchange yesterday and they were closed. Did a little preliminary scooting of the original Cowboy Christmas...I'm pretty sure I'll find something there to bring home!

Oh...the results from last night....
Lindsay was second behind Pozzi-Pharr. Deb Renger had a nice run, just a little long and Traci Dawson tipped. Doc kind of bumped second with his nose on the way in by the looks of it. Looked like that knocked the wind of Traci's sails and she got 3rd too. I hope she can stay strong and pull off a run we all know she can make soon. Curtis Cassidy made a clean run, but out of the money. Dusty LaValley had a crappy draw but rode it for all it was worth and placed 6th. Rod Hay rode, but we don't think he scored high enough to place, if he did it was lower.

Our YouTube friend has caught up on some of the goes so I've put her links in below.

Round 4 - part 1


Round 4 - part 2




Round 3



Hopefully we can get a camera to cooperate and we'll get some pictures on here too!

Cheers from Vegas!
Michelle

Pozzi-Phar takes round 4

The reining world champ took the 4th round. Here's the video. Check out the other videos on the site....they are lots of cool videos. Check out the Platinum Pass videos, they are neat.

Until next time (when I report from Vegas!),

Michelle

ps. looks like our trusty you tube friend hasn't been taping the rounds but I'll keep checking.

Sears is back on top......

A shakey start to the NFR had left Lindsay Sears without a cheque in the first and second round. Looks like they are back in business running a time of 13.91 to win the third round. The duo should be back on track and soon to see the winners stage again soon. Traci Dawson had some rough luck loosing a stirrup at first and taking down the second barrel. Deb Renger made another solid run on Harley remaining one of the few with all the barrels standing.

Our YouTube source has yet to post the barrel racers from round 3, but I'll keep checking in. It's Sunday morning so maybe they didn't get them posted yet. Until then, here's the link to Linz and Martha's winning run and the rest of the winning runs from the night.

Here is an interview where they talk to Lindsay. She gets asked what happened in her first two runs.

The Canadian roughstock riders continue with a some tough luck at the pay window but we're sure to see a turnaround real soon.

Curtis Cassidy remains solid placing 5th again last night and sitting third in the avearge. The Cassidy horse Willy continues to show why he's the best of the best carrying the top 3 riders in the finals average right now.

2nd round NFR barrel racing video

Canadians Solid during first round of National Finals Rodeo

Jill Moody's round 1 winning run The barrel racing video will come up and there will be other events and their winning runs on the right.

Keep checking back to that site www.rodeoup.com they add the winning runs every night or next morning.

Barrel Racing Round 1 results Click to go to that results page and there will be links to all the other events.

On the Canadian barrel racing front Lyndsay Sears and Deb Renger ran matching times of 14.24. Linz on Martha and Deb on her 6 year old Harley. Traci Dawson ran Rana Walter's gelding Doc for a 14.00 +5. The would have shoulda coulda won the round minus the tip. Good things to come for that pair when they leave the barrels up in the next round! Brittaney Pozzi tipped her first barrel in 21 runs at the NFR, this will make it harder for her to overtake Lindsay Sears for the world championship. Stich and Brittaney are known to make their big check in the average race, not by winning rounds (like Linz and Martha). Should be interesting to see how the week plays out.

Curtis Cassidy got second in the steer wrestling, but the Cassidy horse Willy was the big winner of the night placing 3 times for over $30,000 in earnings! Dusty LaValley, 10th with an 81 point ride.

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