LAS VEGAS – This wasn’t the first Junior World Finals for Ashlyn McCleve. It was, however, the first time the cowgirl from Gilbert, Arizona, had qualified for the short go-round of the Kelly Kaminski Run for Vegas senior barrel racing. So McCleve and her horse, Jewels, made the most of the opportunity. Saturday, McCleve put […]
Read More championship saturday: poles and barrelsLAS VEGAS – Carsyn Holbrook is making the most out of her first trip to Las Vegas. Friday, the 13-year-old from Cibolo, Texas, followed up her first-round win in the Kelly Kaminski Run for Vegas pole bending with a 19.710-second run – the fastest of the week – to win the second round at the […]
Read More holbrook has been dynamiteLAS VEGAS – Breanna Werner almost had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Wednesday. Competing in her first Junior World Finals, the 12-year-old cowgirl from Clancy, Montana, was ready to make her first run in the Kelly Kaminski Run for Vegas pole bending in the morning. Werner was waiting to enter the Wrangler Rodeo […]
Read More werner has a memorable dayLAS VEGAS – Maile Read isn’t the only contestant who traveled a great distance to compete at this year’s Junior World Finals. But it’s doubtful any other cowboy or cowgirl put in as many miles in order to qualify as did the 16-year-old from Kailua, Hawaii. “We traveled all over the West Coast to get […]
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