Six-Figure Shootout: Calgary Blows the WPRA World Title Race Wide Open
The way the 2026 season is shaping up, the WPRA world title is anybody’s to win. If 2025 proved anything, it is that the barrel race is not over until the tenth round in Las Vegas. T he NFR opened in chaos — an EHV-1 outbreak scrambled the barrel horses in the days before the […]
A Decade of Dominance: The Strategy That Led to DM Sissy Hayday’s 2026 Calgary Stampede Title
Hailey Kinsel and DM Sissy Hayday won the 2026 Calgary Stampede barrel racing championship Sunday, stopping the clock at 16.80 to collect $50,000 and set another bronze beside the four world titles the pair already own. Kinsel and Sister, the 15-year-old palomino mare the sport knows simply as “Sister,” or just “Sis,” won Pool C […]
Anneliese McCurry, 20, Gets First Big ProRodeo Win at St. Paul
Anneliese McCurry won the St. Paul Rodeo in 17.16 on Blazin Summer Shandy, banking $13,459 in the biggest week of her young career. She is 20, from Nampa, Idaho, in just her second season of pro rodeo, and it was the first time she or the mare had ever set foot in the St. Paul, […]
No Hurry to Grow Up: Merrick Moyer’s Youth-First Playbook
A soon-to-be high school senior with a pro permit on the horizon and a stack of world titles already behind her, Merrick Moyer keeps picking junior rodeos over open incentive money — on purpose. With the cinch World Championship Junior Rodeo coming up, she explains the math that both parents and youth forget to do. […]
She Won’t Back Down: Lanita Peirce, 76, Wins Cody Stampede and Barrels Into World Top 50
Lanita Peirce won the 2026 Cody Stampede on Famous Wahini, clocking 17.06 seconds for $11,308. She is 76, and it had been 33 years since she last made a run at the Wyoming rodeo. In the year 2026, Peirce cashed one of the biggest single checks of the Fourth of July run, and by her […]
The Right Horse, the Right Time: Emily Beisel’s Strategy Shines on Chewy With Reno Win
Emily Beisel won the 2026 Reno Rodeo barrel racing average aboard Teasin Dat Guy, “Chewy.” The No. 3-ranked barrel racer in the world clocked 50.74 seconds on three runs, capped by a 16.83-second finals lap worth $7,844. But the win was the payoff of a season-long strategy: putting the right horse in the right pen. […]
Dacota Monk Banks Second Consecutive Ruby Buckle West Futurity Title, Wins Open on CT Delight
DaCota Monk is a back-to-back Ruby Buckle West futurity champion, riding the buckskin mare CT Delight to the 2D Futurity title at the Bastian Agricultural Center June 23–27 for a $28,400 futurity haul. Monk built the win on two clean runs. CT Delight clocked 16.056 to place third in the opening round for $4,400, then […]
Hello, KissMyButtGoodbye: Vegas Firefighter’s First Foal Taking Derby World By Storm
Kissmybuttgoodbye spent the Run at the Rose Derby in his stablemate’s shadow, running reserve to Hes Got The Sting. A week later at the Colorado Classic, the buckskin got a title of his own, winning the MVP Maturity stallion incentive 1D average for breeder and owner Taylor Langdon. Brooklyn Stallone and Divide The Seis won […]
Joy Wargo and Tres Chasin Cans Top Colorado Classic 2026
Joy Wargo won the 2026 Colorado Classic Futurity 1D average on Chasin Tres Cans, a 2022 Tres Seis stallion out of the Eddie Stinson mare VF Chasin Cans, at the Montrose County Fairgrounds. After finishing seventh in the first round, she won the second in 14.912 and posted the fastest two-run time in the field […]
Resistol Rookie Contenders to Watch at the 2026 CNFR
Six barrel racers entered at the College National Finals Rodeo are chasing a second prize this summer: the WPRA Resistol Rookie of the Year title. Here is who to watch when college rodeo’s best fill the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper, June 14–20. The Resistol Rookie of the Year race tracks first-year WPRA cardholders across […]
‘God Is Always Good’: World No. 2 LaTricia Duke’s Carlos Out From ProRodeo After Injury
DM He Will Run Ya, the 6‑year‑old gelding known as Carlos that LaTricia Duke has ridden to the No. 2 spot in the 2026 WPRA World Standings, will be out of competition indefinitely following an injury sustained this week at Eagle, Duke announced on Facebook. Duke, of Henrietta, Texas, sits second in the world with […]
Strapped to a Slingshot: Kim Schulze and Aint Seen Sassy Yet Win 2026 Run at the Rose Futurity
Lifelong Colorado talent Kim Schulze rode Aint Seen Sassy Yet to the 1D average title at the Run at the Rose Futurity in Montrose on a two-run 30.475. Schulze was second in Round 1 in 15.255 for $2,394, won Round 2 in 15.220 for $2,634, and took the average and the 1D championship for another […]
She Brings the Sting: Taylor Langdon Goes 1-2 at Run at the Rose Derby
The Run at the Rose futurity and derby ran June 5-7 in Montrose, Colorado, and the headline out of the derby was a homegrown 1-2: Taylor Langdon won it and finished second on two horses she raised out of two of her own mares. Taylor Langdon ran 1-2 in Saturday’s Run at the Rose Derby […]
Lindsey Muggli’s Climbing World Standings ‘In The Nick A Time’
Lindsey Muggli was training other people’s barrel horses before she was old enough to drive across a state line and worked her tail off, so it’s no surprise we find her firmly planted inside the top 15 in the WPRA World Standings at the midway point in the season. By the time she was in […]
Katie Chism’s MF Aces Famous Fling Returns From Bone Fracture, Leads 2026 Great Lakes Circuit
Katie Chism leads the WPRA Great Lakes Circuit standings as of June 02 with $6,083 won across six rodeos on her homegrown palomino stallion MF Aces Famous Fling (Ace), less than a year after a fractured coffin bone knocked the pair out of a top‑15 spot in the 2025 World Standings. Chism, of Tiskilwa, Illinois, […]