Daily Archives: August 26, 2009

Tracey Goodman and Biscuit

Well, we went to a PRCA on Aug 22nd in Imboden, Ar. The rodeo season is kinda winding down some (the close ones atleast) and I am really looking to make some good runs and pull checks even though I’m too far out of the standings. You still like to finish out with a bang, right. Biscuit has been working pretty good for me. He never ceases to amaze me!! So here we go, just my cousin, my dog, Biscuit and myself, headed for Imboden. We get there and get ready. He warms up GREAT!! Oh yeah!! Now I’m really pumped. I had heard that the night before the ground was really slick but it should have dried out some since slack had already ran on it and it had all day Saturday with the sun on it. We were 2nd out but I couldn’t see the girl that ran before me to see how the ground held. “Heck, Biscuit takes care of me. I’ll just run him and he will be the judge!” Those were my last thoughts as I was entering the arena at a wide open run. ha! This arena has a side gate from the right, so as he is running in, I’m picking him up and moving him over to get a good run at the 1st. He listens fairly well and moves over. You have to understand, he isn’t the type of horse you go in and ”set-up”. :) The stretch to number one felt pretty good. He was running HARD it felt like. All of a sudden, about 2 strides to #1, his back end goes down. Then the front, then he hits the ground and gets back up all in, what felt like one motion. I guess the impact of his fall jolted a VERY relaxed me and I went head over heels. Now I don’t mean for this to sound ugly, but in the short 18 years that I have been barrel racing, I have NEVER come off of one during a run. It was one of those crashes I didn’t even see coming! Back to the run…Biscuit gets up and takes off to the run out. The guys catch him and here I come to get him back. Already back to my feet! All was fine. Biscuit was ok! I was ok. The most perfect song was playing when I get to my knees. WILD THANG! Now we are just waiting on the next run to try to redeem ourselves!