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 as the owner, $1,000 to The Goodbye Lane and $1,000 to breeder Robin Kuhnhein
“I was so happy with him today,” Schafer said. “I felt like he just did it very effortlessly, and he made my job really easy. I just kind of tried to stay up there and out of his way.”
Schafer purchased The Coffee Guy, who is a 2020 gelding by The Goodbye Lane and out of Guyz Tots N Fries by Frenchmans Guy, prior to birth. He was born at her and husband, Seth’s home. When the foal was just a few months old, his mother was struck by lightning, leaving him orphaned.
With the foal being close to weaning age, the Schafers let their family donkey step in to help raise “Coffee Bean.”
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“You can kind of tell sometimes by the way he acts,” Schafer said with a laugh. “He’s just a pest. He has the funniest personality—he’s super sweet, but he’s into everything in the barn.”
From that unlikely start, Coffee Bean went on to become one of Schafer’s most watched and documented colts, with his progress featured extensively on her Between the Reins training platform since his very first days in the round pen. In the 2025 season, he’s taken to the pressure well, placing at nearly every race Schafer has brought the gelding along to.
His Ruby Buckle Central go-round victory will mark his first outright win of the year.
“That horse has such a strong turn style, and if I get him too far up the pen, he’ll sometimes catch the barrel coming around,” Schafer said. “But today he felt spot on. I was just really happy that I got my timing right—we executed exactly what I set out to do.”
On Friday, May 2, Schafer will run The Coffee Guy, and Wayde, The Goodbye Lane progeny she placed No. 8 on in Round 1, to hopefully lock up an aggregate title and cash in during Round 2.
“I just love this arena. I love these events,” Schafer said. “I’m so grateful for the opportunity we have to get to run at this kind of money.”
Schafer wasn’t the only one to see success on The Goodbye Lane’s in Guthrie. Taylor Miniat and her TGL out of JKT Drifting Tu Love by Sadies Frosty Drift, The Love Lane, were close behind in the No. 3 position. In Round 2, Miniat and a stacked field of talented jockeys and horses will look to upset Schafer’s lead.
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Summary: The Goodbye Lane futurity Round 1 earnings
The Goodbye Lane is ranked at No. 3 on QData’s all-time barrel racing sire list with $13,302,924 and climbing in progeny earnings. The 2001 stallion by Lanes Leinster and out of Swift Goodbye by Dash Ta Fame is based in Utah and owned by the Jarvis family. Some of his standout progeny include Kassie Mowry’s Force The Goodbye ($ 1,733,619), The American Rodeo champion MJ Segers Fast Lane ($1,560,884) and Sharin Hall’s Hello Stella ($1,058,673).
(1D Money) $25,550 + ( 2D Money) $400 = $25,950 early total
- The Coffee Guy – 1D-1 – $10,000
- Love Lane – 1D-3 – $5,500
- In The Flybye Lane – 1D-5 – $3,500
- Get Tha Goodbye – 1D-7 – $2,250
- Wayde – 1D-8 – $2,000
- Kissmywithgoodbye – 1D-10 – $1,500
- Pita Lane – 1D-16 – $800
- Traveller – 2D-10 – $400
