Hayle and Hailey Have Taken Over: WPRA Standings Shuffle After Cheyenne, Utah’s Pioneer Week
For the first time in 2026, the name at the top of the projected WPRA world standings is not Kassie Mowry, it’s Hayle Gibson-Stillwell. The last full week of July is the richest stretch of the summer run, and it moved the standings. Cheyenne Frontier Days crowned its champion under the new WPRA Playoff bracket, […]
The Horses of Cheyenne: 2026 CFD Finalist Pedigrees
Twelve horses ran in the final round of the 2026 Cheyenne Frontier Days barrel racing tournament on Sunday, July 26. Tayla Moeykens and KN Fames Best Yet won it in 17.41 seconds. This page is the pedigree record for all 12: sire, dam, damsire, foaling year, owner and breeder for every horse that made Championship […]
The Rundown July 21: The One With Colorado Springs and 5 States
Caitlyn White and Mr Soul won the NFR Open at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Tricia Aldridge took the California Rodeo Salinas average aboard Adios Pantalones, and the 5 States Breeders Futurity paid more than $225,000 across a loaded week in South Dakota, all recapped on this week’s episode of […]
Catherine Asmussen Making Moves Up Resistol Rookie Standings, Bagnell Still Leads Field
Morgan Bagnell keeps padding her lead at the top of the Resistol Rookie race, but the chase behind her looks nothing like it did heading into the summer run. Through July 14, Bagnell sits first with $57,035.00, a cushion of $25,756.79 over a brand-new runner-up. When we last checked the board on May 13, that margin was […]
Say Hello to Adios: All-Time Winningest Barrel Stallion Returns From Hock Fracture Beneath Tricia Aldridge
Adios Pantalones is back. The winningest barrel racing stallion of all time won the average at the 2026 California Rodeo Salinas, banking $14,420 for Tricia Aldridge, his first title since a fractured hock and the surgery that followed kept him off the rodeo road for roughly five months. The 6-year-old stallion (Tres Seis x French […]
‘I Just Let Him Do His Thing’: Caitlyn White and Mr Soul Win $16,750 and NFR Open National Circuit Championship
Caitlyn White won the 2026 NFR Open barrel racing championship Saturday night at the Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs, riding the stallion Mr Soul to a 17.29 in the Top 9 Finals for $13,000 in her first trip to the circuit system’s season-ending finale. It was the fastest Mr Soul ran all week, […]
Tricia Aldridge and Adios Pantalones Seal the Deal on California Rodeo Salinas Win: Full Results
Tricia Aldridge was the top earner in the barrel racing at the 2026 California Rodeo Salinas, winning $14,420 across the week aboard Adios Pantalones. Aldridge took the average in 64.40 seconds on four head and won the finals round in 15.98, riding the winningest barrel racing stallion of all time. Sherry Cervi was the next-best […]
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 […]