🏅Our Olympians: Mowry, Matthews and Rule Make Days of ’47 Podium 🏅

The Days of '47 Gold Medal Round is stacked with some of the top names in 2024 ProRodeo barrel racing.
top barrel racers take podium at Days of '47 Rodeo 2024
Kassie Mowry, Taycie Matthews and Dona Kay Rule earned top spots in the Days of '47 2024 short round. Andersen/CBarC Photography

The Days of ’47 is one of Utah’s most anticipated rodeos every year, and one that most of the top barrel racers in the world show up at in hopes of locking in a big payday and the coveted gold medal.

Days of ’47 barrel racing format

The Salt Lake City Days of 47 Rodeo has a specific format:

  1. Initial Qualification: 80 barrel racers qualified and made their slack run on Tuesday, July 16
  2. Progressive Rounds: From the 80 girls, the top 32 moved on to the progressive rounds (perfornances July 19-20, July 22-23) In these nightly performances, the top two from each of the four performances advance to the finals.
  3. Finals: The finals (July 24) consists of the top eight girls who qualified from the progressive rounds.

2024 Days of ’47 barrel racing results

Qualifying Round

1. Kassie Mowry, 16.71 seconds, $5,600; 2. Halyn Lide, 16.98, $4,480; 3. Leslie Smalygo, 17.00, $3,640; 4. Tillar King, 17.02, $2,800; 5. Hailey Kinsel, 17.05, $2,240; 6. Shelley Morgan, 17.06, $1,680; 7. Jordon Briggs, 17.14, $1,400; 8. Tiany Schuster, 17.17, $1,260; 9. Fallon Taylor, 17.18, $1,120; 10. Ashley Castleberry, 17.20, $980; 11. Amanda Butler, 17.21, $840; 12. Paige Jones, 17.22, $700; 13. Megan McLeod-Sprague, 17.23, $560; 14. Jennifer Kalafatic, 17.25, $420; 15. Taycie Matthews, 17.27, $280.

Hailey Kinsel Days of '47 barrel racing
Hailey Kinsel and Sister punched their ticket to the Days of ’47 Gold Medal Round.

Progressive Rounds

Friday, July 19

1. Dona Kay Rule, Minco, OK, 16.91 seconds, $2,000; 2. Jymmy Kay Cox, Ruidoso Downs, N.M., 17.24, $1,500; 3. Sue Smith, Blackfoot, ID, 17.26, $1,000; 4. Steeley Steiner, Weatherford, TX, 17.27, $500.

Gold Medal Round qualifiers: Dona Kay Rule and Jymmy Kay Cox

Saturday, July 20

1. Hailey Kinsel, Cotulla, TX, 16.83 seconds, $2,000; 2. Shelley Morgan, Eustace, TX, 16.94, $1,500; 3. McKenna Coronado, Kanarraville, UT, 17.02, $1,000; 4. Amanda Butler, Payson, UT, 17.14, $500.

Gold Medal Round Qualifiers: Hailey Kinsel, Shelley Morgan

Monday, July 22

1. Kassie Mowry, 16.86 seconds, $2,000; 2. Taycie Matthews, 16.91, $1,500; 3. Tillar King, 16.93, $1,000; 4. (tie) Ashley Castleberry and Latricia Duke, 17.02, $250 each.

Gold Medal Round Qualifiers: Kassie Mowry, Taycie Matthews

Tuesday, July 23

1. Jordon Briggs, Tolar, TX, 16.98 seconds, $2,000; 2. Ann McGilchrist, Marysville, CA, 17.00, $1,500; 3. Kaycee Killingsworth, Thrall, TX, 17.10, $1,000; 4. Tiany Schuster, Krum, TX, 17.16, $500.

Gold Medal Round Qualifiers: Jordon Briggs, Ann McGilchrist

Jordon Briggs barrel racing Days of '47
Jordon Briggs is locked in for the Days of ’47 Gold Medal Round. Image by Andersen/CBarC courtesy WPRA.

Gold Medal Round Qualifiers

(not in running order)

Dona Kay Rule

Jymmy Jay Cox

Hailey Kinsel

Shelley Morgan

Kassie Mowry

Taycie Matthews

Jordon Briggs

Ann McGilchrist

Gold Medal Round Results

Barrel racing: 1. Kassie Mowry, Dublin, TX, 16.75 seconds, $13,000; 2. Taycie Matthews, Wynne, AR, 16.93, $9,000; 3. Dona Kay Rule, Minco, OK, 16.98, $5,000; 4. Hailey Kinsel, Cotulla, TX, 17.21, $2,750.

Gold: Kassie Mowry

Silver: Taycie Matthews

Bronze: Dona Kay Rule


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