Fame Fire Rocks Crosses $500K LTE With Women’s Rodeo Championship Win Beneath Taycie Matthews
Taycie Matthews and Fame Fire Rocks, better known as “Poprocks,” claimed the 2025 Women’s Rodeo Championship barrel racing title and a $60,000 payday inside AT&T Stadium on May 17, bringing her total WRC earnings to $70,000 on the week. Matthews, 22, guided Poprocks through three rounds and a championship short go in Cowtown Coliseum before […]
Limited Barrel Racer Charmaine Holdren is Headed to AT&T Stadium
Charmaine Holdren of Weatherford, Texas, won the Women’s Rodeo World Championship Limited Barrel Racing title with a 13.382-second run inside Cowtown Coliseum on Wednesday. She didn’t hear the time right away. As the announcer hesitated before reading it out, Holdren held her breath. Then it came: 13.382. Good enough to win the round, the division, […]
Judge JB Cash, Jordan Driver Take $21,500 Out of Rodeo Corpus Christi
Jordan Driver’s having a landmark season of barrel racing, and she added yet another win to the heap after carrying the WCRA’s Rodeo Corpus Christi surfboard, and a smooth $21,500 out of her week aboard Judge JB Cash. Driver entered Rodeo Corpus Christi straight into the first two progressive rounds of competition due to her […]
The Playbook on Rodeo Corpus Christi’s Stoplight Barrel Racing Start
The barrel racing setup will be unique at Rodeo Corpus Christi 2025, utilizing a stoplight system to prepare athletes for a potential positon into Kid Rock’s Rodeo 2025, and Jordan Driver is heading into the competition No. 1 Anticipation is building in the barrel racing field before the highly anticipated Corpus Christi debut of the […]
The Coffee Guy Tops Round 1 as The Goodbye Lane Get Dominate Ruby Buckle Central Futurity
Ashley Schafer and The Coffee Guy finished No. 1 out of over 300 runners in Round 1 of the Ruby Buckle Central Race in Guthrie to lead the field of athletes and earn the $10,000 payday ahead of multiple other The Goodbye Lane barrel racing progeny. The Coffee Guy’s 16.864-second time earned $8,000 for Schafer […]
Driver and Wofford’s JL Dash Ta Heaven Progeny Go 1-2 in Ruby Buckle Central Derby Round 1
The opening day of Ruby Buckle Central barrel racing action proved profitable for program stallion JL Dash Ta Heaven when TR HeavensIlluminated and Hell Bent For Heaven went first and second in the first round of Derby competition beneath Jordan Driver and Destinee Wofford. The Pink and Ruby Buckle-eligible JL Dash Ta Heaven is ranked […]
A Unicorn Story: Adios Pantalones Breaks All-Time Barrel Racing Stallion Earnings Record
Adios Pantalones officially took the title of all-time high earning barrel racing stallion, a record previously held by the NFR talent, Slick By Design, after crossing the $630,000 earnings mark in April 2025. “I didn’t think he’d be doing this as a 5-year-old, that’s insane,” his owner, rider and trainer, Tricia Aldridge said. “And I […]
These 15 Barrel Racers Have a Shot at $1 Million at The American Rodeo 2025
The field of 15 contenders is officially set for The American Rodeo’s first round at AT&T Stadium at the April 11-12 event, so get to know the field and how each qualified for the coveted $1 million potential purse. The American Contender Barrel Racing advancement path has led these 15 to the April 11 The […]
Pole Benders, Barrel Racers Dominate WCJR All-Around Leaderboards as Entry Deadline Looms
In July, the World Championship Junior Rodeo will return to the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and there’s many barrel racers and pole benders putting their name on the nomination list to earn their way to the $400,000 event. There’s three ways to qualify for the WCJR— the DY2025 leaderboard, open entry and qualifier […]
Three Stallions Qualify for Rodeo Austin Semifinals, Two Close in on All-Time Earnings Record
The three stallions DM High Roller, Seis Smashin Fame and Adios Pantalones all qualified through to the Rodeo Austin Semifinals in the final week of March 2025, and here’s what you need to know about the barrel racing standouts who pull double duty in the breeding barn. The first two stallions on the list went […]
Horsepower is Stacked for RodeoHouston Barrel Racing Finals 2025: Full Pedigrees
The stakes are higher than ever at RodeoHouston 2025, and these are the 10 horses that made it through the ProRodeo tournament in barrel racing to run at $65,000 in prize money on Sunday, March 23. See full RodeoHouston 2025 results here. Leslie Smalygo and JustAHeartBeatToFame Summer Kosel and FireWaterFrenchFame Jordon Briggs and Famous Lil […]
From Fort Worth to San Antonio, Andrea Busby’s No. 1 and Just Keeps Winning
Andrea Busby maintained dominance from start to finish at the 2025 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo on Born On Derby Day to bank $27,700 throughout the ProRodeo tournament and overtake the No. 1 position in the 2025 WPRA World Standings. At the FWSSR tournament, Busby and Born On Derby Day won both sections of […]
The Rundown Feb. 10: The One Where the Winter Rodeos Get Rolling
On this week’s episode of The Rundown, learn all about winter rodeo formats, the Kinder Cup barrel race and more Episode Recap: The Rundown – February 2025 Kinder Equinety Cup Recap Rapid City & Fort Worth Rodeo Highlights World Standings Update (As of Feb 5th) San Antonio Rodeo Breakdown Royal Crown Update The Rundown is […]
Hallie Hanssen Gets Kinder Cup Redemption on The Kandyman Kid, Wins $34K and Futurity Title
Hallie Hanssen jockeyed The Kandyman Kid to an impressive week of futurity barrel racing at the 2025 Kinder Cup Barrel Racing Championships in Tunica, Mississippi, finishing no less than reserve on any entry and earning the Futurity championship. In the slot race, The Kandyman Kid clocked a 14.773 to earn the reserve $15,000 finish behind […]
Retired School Counselor April Black Wins Kinder Cup Derby Round 1 on Homegrown Dash Ta Fiesta Dunit
Fans learned the name April Black quick, fast and in a hurry in Tunica, Mississippi, when she and Dash Ta Fiesta Dunit changed the leaderboard in Round 1 of the Kinder Cup Barrel Racing Championships Derby and held for the win on February 6, 2025. When the name April Black was announced inside the Tunica […]
