Daily Archives: May 21, 2009

Date, Rodeo Name and Location
May 14th * Franklin, TN PRCA Rodeo

 Which horse did you run?
I ran a grey mare by the name of JB Absolute aka Abby.  She is a mare that my family actually used to own a few years ago that I have back now to ride for the current owners

How was the ground, alley, warm up area, etc?
The ground can be a little tricky here sometimes and is notorious for getting faster as the weekend goes on.  I was there to watch slack bright and early Thursday morning and the ground was not dangerous, however, the horses really weren’t sitting down and turning hard.  The alley way is VERY long and the pattern is huge.  When I ran Thursday night a 17.82 was winning it from slack.

Tell me about your run, the good the bad and the ugly. Exactly how you felt about it.
For the most part Abby worked very well.  She is not in very good shape yet, so I knew this size of a pen was going to be a HUGE test for her.  She ran hard though, but has not been in this large of an arena in a VERY long time, so she set up for each barrel really early and lost a lot of momentum in her turns.  Our time was long but I was happy with the way she worked for me

Comments about the rodeo?
I love this rodeo.  This is the first rodeo for J Bar J of the year and I have grown up going to their rodeos so its fun to sit and visit with the Zinsers.  This rodeo has an awesome hospitality room with great food and the committee adds $3,500 to each event which keeps everyone coming back.

 Anything interesting happen on the trip there or back?
I had to leave extra early for this rodeo because I was dropping off my new buckskin mare with someone so they could haul her to Illinois for me.  They were up in slack at 7:00am Thursday morning so I drove through the night Wed to get there.  On the way there I was driving through the mountains and a semi comes up on me and starts flashing his lights and laying on his horn.  I look in my mirror and see sparks flying out from underneath my trailer.  I start freaking out and am trying to get slowed down going downhill and find a spot to pull over on the brim.  I rolled down my window and could smell the metal on pavement and heard a AWFUL noise that sounded like my rim was hitting the pavement.  I get pulled over, jump out, the smell is awful and I run around checking all my tires.  My tires were fine!?  I am confused so I go around the front of my truck and look under it thinking something was dragging, its dark but I do not see anything, I go around the back of my truck and wala I see it.  Somehow my trailer jack had dropped and was draggin on the road!  Other than beating the crap out of the jack everything else was fine, so I put the jack back up and off we went again.  I arrived in Franklin at 5:00am and the place was PACKED.  I ended up parking right in the middle of the driveway, tied the horses to the panels in the warm up arena, and crashed in the trailer for a couple hours.  So later that night I decided to stay for a little while and sleep because I had got only a couple hours of sleep in the last 48 hours.  I left at about 2:00am to head back to North Carolina and as I was getting out of my bed in the trailer, I tripped and landed with all my weight on my big toe.  I heard a rip and a pop, looked down and my big toe was bent and broke.  I started cussing and hobbled around to get my horse loaded and on the road.  The pain going through my foot was insane and it was swelling and getting very hot, so I pulled over at a gas station got a cup of ice and put it in a little horse bucket.  I filled it with some water and placed it in front of the seat so I could ice my foot going down the road   It looked ridiculous but it worked and helped keep the swelling under control!

What CD is in your truck right now?
Bryan Adams…love love love him -