BarrelRacing
Terra Bynum
1D Winner 3D Winner 5D Winner
Terra Bynum Amy Donaker Sheryl Dugan
top gun at the Resistol
Ranch Boots Race For The
Truck in Waco
Contributed by Tanya Randall, Special
for World Barrel Racing Productions,
Photography by Pixel Worx
Late entry Terra Bynum and her National
Finals Rodeo horse Hempen Streak (“Maver-
ick”) changed the leader board for good with
just seven runners remaining at the World Bar-
rel Racing Production’s Resistol Ranch Boots
Race for The Truck, held September 4-7 at the
Heart O’ Texas Coliseum in Waco, TX. “The ground is great and I can let him roll,” she 3D Winner suitable prospect for barrel racing. Three years
“She’s lucky that when she called to enter said. “I figured this would be a great place to Amy Donaker made the long 11-hour later, she’s won her first saddle at age 52.
there were still spots left for Monday!” said pro- bust him out.” drive from Deming, NM, to run in Waco on “I rode a lot as a girl and ran barrels at the
ducer Booger Barter. Like many trainers who float between Monday. The drive paid off in big ways with local rodeos,” said the pediatric nurse practi-
Pleased with the exceptional turnout, Barter training colts and running rodeo horses, Donaker winning the 3D saddle and her son, tioner. “I didn’t ride through college and then I
increased the number of paid places in the main Bynum had a momentary lapse in judgment Rocky, 8, placing in the 5D. was a rodeo mom for 18 years. I was a single
race from 15 to 25. However, only the top 15 running in the pen. “I ran a 16.110 and my son ran a 17.117,” mom with two teenage boys. I hauled them
places were eligible for the truck drawing as ad- “I’ve been riding colts all month and all said Donaker. “I thought we were both too fast enough that they earned full ride rodeo schol-
vertised. The truck winner was determined by you do is shuck it between their ears and kick,” so we packed up and left. We were about an arships.”
two drawings. The first determines the division she said. “I had just ran my 4-year-old that I hour down the road, watching the webcast Now it was mom’s turn.
and the second determines the placing. Brooke over-and-undered to the first barrel and had to when my husband, Clint says, I think I hear a “I needed something to do with my time
Knetsch, who tied for tenth place in the 4D, was kick every step of the way. I come around the 15.110. I couldn’t believe it. I started to panic. now that I wasn’t hauling them,” she said the
the lucky truck winner. Knetsch, a Pre-K to corner on Maverick and shucked him his head. I knew my son was placing, but I’ve never won Stigler, OK, native. “It’s a good mental and
fourth grade writing teacher from Killeen, got I got half way to the first barrel and thought anything and just couldn’t believe it. I even physical outlet for me because my job can be
the congratulatory call from Barter. Unlike pre- ‘What have I done?’ I’m there and I should questioned my time, thinking maybe I ran a very stressful.”
vious recipients of such phone calls, Knetsch have been sitting down five strides ago. He got 101 not a 110. I didn’t tell a lot of people be- Winning a saddle was beyond, Horton’s
knew she won something, but was still left mo- a little past it. When he does stuff like that and cause I wasn’t sure.” wildest dreams. And, she did aboard a horse she
mentarily speechless when she was told she won the ground’s good, he just comes back harder. Only school the next morning kept them trained herself. Drifting Gambler, a 9-year-old
the truck. I guess he thought he was in trouble. I honestly from turning around and going to pick up the double registered Paint/Quarter, was raised by
Her only response—“No way!” didn’t think it was that fast!” very first saddle that Donaker’s ever won. her father Carl Brice and broke by her brother.
Knetsch ran Sunday night aboard her new Donaker was riding Ima Special Bunny While Horton claimed the saddle, Danni
horse Streakin Nightsong, a 6-year-old gelding 2D Winner (“Ima”), a 15-year-old gelding that her step- Tamburro and Loretta West also turned in
by Streakin La Jolla. A borrowed mount carried Tammy Cow- daughter used to run. 16.611 to sit at the top of the 4D. The WBR
ard, Gatesville, to the 2D win. It was her first “I’ve only made three runs on him,” she staff rolled the dice on behalf of each contest-
1D Winner run back on Its Easy Dashin (“Bullet”) since said. “My first run on him was at a rodeo and I ant and Horton’s 6 beat out Tamburro’s 3 and
“It’s been a long time since I’ve won any- she sold the gelding in the spring. won it. I thought this is going to be easy be- West’s 5. Each took home $1,000.
thing,” said 1D pacesetter Terra Bynum of Col- “The horse I was going to run got hurt, so cause he’s totally automatic. My next run was
orado City. It was her first run back on Maverick I called Katie Hall and asked if I could use at a jackpot and I hit two barrels. My goal at 5D Winner
in over a month. After a hard summer run, she him,” explained Coward, an equine chiroprac- the WBR was to have three clean barrels.” Sheryl Dugan, Burleson, “has been chug-
turned him out for a much-needed break. tor and acuscope therapist. “He was started Donaker collected $1,300, while her son ging up the D’s” with her 8-year-old solid Paint
“I’ve been letting him rest,” explained the when I got him and I just started taking him to picked up $300. gelding Rues Black Knight (“Ace”), and hit
two-time NFR qualifier. “He’s the only horse jackpots to season him. I ended up selling him pay dirt in Waco with a 5D win.
I’ve got this year. He’s really fragile-minded, and even though I really didn’t want to, but every- 4D Winner “I started out in what seemed like the 10th
I really thought he was ready to make more runs. thing happens for a reason. A few years ago when Donna Horton went D and have been working my way up,” said
I ran him a lot this summer and he really started “I really want to thank Katie for letting me to her father and brother and told them that she Dugan. “It’s so rewarding. At the big shows, I
to get a little frazzled. Honestly, this is the longest use him. This is her first year to go to college, wanted to start barrel racing, they looked at her tend to get nervous and make mistakes. This
I’ve ever had a horse. He’s 9-years-old and I’ve and she got a full ride rodeo scholarship. I hope like she was crazy. Though they did look time I tried to ride relaxed and not hit a barrel.”
usually sold them by now. I’m just now starting she does really well.” through the family raised horses and find her a Dugan ran on Sunday night and was at
how to figure out how to maintain an open home on the computer when she found out she
horse.”
2D Winner 4D Winner
won. “I had stopped watching at 350 because I
On the bubble of making her third NFR,
Tammy Coward Donna Horton
thought that was it, no one was going to change
Bynum’s not about to pack up shop and head to it,” she explained. “I came back to watch to see
the Northwest for the final push. Instead, she who won the truck and they announced it
wants two healthy horses for next year’s run. Her would be a little while longer, so I decided to
backup and former futurity standout, Cadillac N check the results to see how my friends ended
Karats, is still recovering from injury and Bynum up. When I refreshed the results page and that
hopes to be back on her in December. 15.110 came up, I just started crying. I’ve been
“If it happens, it happens. If not, I’ll have trying to win one of those saddles forever!”
two horses for next year. I want my horses to last Dugan had tied with Crystal Barricklow
in the long run,” she said. with a 17.110. Each took home $600. Barrick-
Bynum figured Waco was a great place to
low got the trophy buckle. w
get Maverick rolling again, and, boy, did he roll.
14 SouthWest Horse Trader October 2009
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