Daily Archives: June 18, 2009

Amber Mostoller on Mighty Mouse

 
Date, Rodeo Name and Location
June 12th * Hillsboro, MO * IPRA rodeo

Which horse did you run?
Soo Originally I was gonna to take Mighty Mouse and Abby on this weekend rodeo run, but something came up and I just ended up taking Abby.

How was the ground, alley, warm up area, etc?
The ground at this rodeo is either a muddy mess or hard as a rock…last year on Friday night it was a muddy mess and then hard hard hard on Saturday when I ran…this year they did a good job keeping the ground hard with all the rain they got so it was not muddy at all when we ran.  There isn’t really an alley way at this rodeo they just open up two of the end panels and let us run through them.

Tell me about your run, the good the bad and the ugly. Exactly how you felt about it. 
So Abby felt a little funny warming her up but I could not pinpoint exactly what I thought was off.  She had cut her nose pretty bad during the week and I thought maybe she was just being funny b/c of that.  I was 8th out to run so I got to watch alot of other runs go before me to see how the ground was holding up.  I was 2nd at this rodeo last year on Rookie and wanted to do well again this year.  The ground was hard as usual but looked good so I sent her.  She inhaled the 1st barrel and went across the pen hard.  I got a little handsy at the 2nd so she pulled off a tiny bit but was lined up going to the 3rd and had a decent 3rd barrel as well.  She ran REALLY hard home and a couple of the girls commented how Abby just hit another gear.  They were winning it with a 15.2 which is what I ran last year and I ran a 14.8 on Abby to take over the lead!!  I ended up 3rd overall after Saturdays perf was over but was tickled to death with her.  A 14.7 won it and there was another 14.8 just a little faster then mine.  I called the owners and they were very happy even though I called them at 11:00pm their time lol  This was also the 1st IPRA money I won of the year as well!!

Comments about the rodeo?
I really like this rodeo.  They add $1,000 to the barrel racing and there is a live band and dance after each perf.  They also offer $100 bonus to the winner of each performance which is great for outside rodeos since you never know if the ground will change.

 Anything interesting happen on the trip there or back?
I had planned on leaving for this rodeo around noon on Friday so I would get there nice and early and get a good parking spot.  Well I didn’t up leaving till around 2:00pm which was gonna put me there around starting time.  I had to put a tire back on my trailer that had flew off of it going down the road a few weeks earlier and when I went to the hardware store to get lug nuts they gave me the wrong size!!  SO I had to go back and get the right size…I am very paranoid about tires on my truck and trailer so I was constantly stopping to check and see if the lug nuts were still tight lol.  So I stopped at a gas station to get money out of the ATM and check the lug nuts.  Lug Nuts were fine and I go in to get $200 out…well my receipt said that the machine had giving me $200 but it only gave me $120!  I was getting nervous about being late for the rodeo and all the gas station lady could do was give me the banks phone number to clear it up with them…so I left with $80 less then I had intended and got to the rodeo as it was starting!

Quote of the day:

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths. Vic Braden