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Barrel racing is a rodeo event in which a horse and rider attempt to run a cloverleaf pattern around preset barrels in the fastest time. In collegiate and professional ranks, it is usually a women's event, though both sexes compete at amateur and youth levels.
Her second horse, Sonny Bit O'Both, brought her to the NFR four consecutive years (1978-1981). Sonny is the only horse in history to win both the AQHA and the WPRA championships in the same year. [5] In 1980, she won the barrel racing world championship at the NFR, the highest title in professional barrel racing. [7]
Brackenbury competed in professional rodeo in many events, but her main event was barrel racing. She also used her rodeo skills in the film business, for example, by falling off horses for a movie stunt. [1] In addition to being a hall of fame barrel racer, she was also an American World Barrel Racing Champion.
Barrel racing and breakaway roping are sanctioned by the WPRA, while the other rodeo events, for male contestants, are sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). All of the championship rodeo events are held together at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) at the Thomas & Mack Center , in Las Vegas, Nevada , in December.
Ann Lewis (June 4, 1958 – October 2, 1968) was an American barrel racer.In December 1968, she won the barrel racing world championship posthumously, becoming the youngest barrel racing champion in the Girls Rodeo Association (now the Women's Professional Rodeo Association).
Walker has one World Barrel Racing Champion title which she won in 2012. [ 1 ] Walker was the oldest rodeo world champion in the WPRA at 53 years of age in 2012; in 2016 Mary Burger set a new record of 68 years for the WPRA and the PRCA, but Walker remains the second oldest champion.
Sherry Cervi (born September 17, 1975), is an American professional rodeo cowgirl who has won four world championships in barrel racing. [1] She won the barrel racing title at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in 1995, 1999, 2010, and 2013. [2] She was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2018.
Charmayne James (born June 23, 1970) is an American former professional rodeo cowgirl who specialized in barrel racing. In her career, She won 11 Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) barrel racing world championships, the most in history. She won ten consecutive world championships from 1984 to 1993, and then a final one in 2002.