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Vickie MacCarty shows how it's done at the 1980 Winnett rodeo.

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Meet Your 2012 Junior Barrel Racing And All Around Champion

Shai McDonald is your 2012 Junior Barrel Racing and All Around Champion.  She is 12 years old and is in the 6^th grade.   These are back-to-back championships for Shai.  She rides the NRA Junior Barrel Horse of the Year “Little Man”, who happens to be 18 years young.   In 2011 she was the NWRA “Barrel Racing Rookie of the Year” accomplishing this on her late horse “Ace Man”.  The first year she competed in the NRA (2010) she was the Reserve Champion Junior Barrel Racer on her 16 yr. old horse “Payday”.  I’m sure that we will be seeing a lot of Shai in the future and she will be one to “reckon” with.  Congratulations to this outstanding young lady.

Meet Your 2012 Tie Down Roping Rookie Of The Year

Orry Fruit came into the NRA Finals leading the Tie Down Roping standings, 6^th in the Team Roping (Heeler) and 3rd in the Men’s All Around.  His traveling partner and team roping partner was Kevin Peterson and they were “neck and neck” in the Tie Down Roping and All Around standings all season.  Orry came into the finals with $2784.21 in the Team Roping and $5703.09 in the Tie Down Roping. When the dust settled, he was 9^th in the Team Roping (heeler), 3^rd in the Tie Down and 3^rd in the All Around.  Way to go Orry and we look forward to watching you this next season.

Meet Your 2012 Ladies Barrel Racing Champion

When the smoke cleared after the barrel racing at the 2012 NRA Finals in Butte, Lindsay Kruse came out on top.  She has been an NWRA member for the past 10 years and this certainly wasn’t her “first rodeo”!!!!  She has won the championship three times.   Her main horse is 11 year old “Harley”.  She is married to World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider, Jesse Kruse and they have a little girl named Paisley who is a year and a half old. The Kruse’s are currently in the process of building a new home in Winston, Mt. 

Meet Your 2012 Steer Wrestling Champion

Mike Gollaher is your 2012 NRA Steer Wrestling Champion.  Mike lives on his ranch in Cascade with his wife Barbara Jo and step daughter, Arbie, where they raise Angus cattle.  Mike graduated from Cascade High School in 1991 and attended Dickenson, ND on a football and track scholarship in 1991 and 1992 and then returned to Montana and attended MSU Bozeman in 1994 and 1995, where he walked on the Bobcat football team.  Mike graduated in 1996 with an Ag Business degree.  Mike says that he’s the “OLD GUY” of the steer wrestlers since the “Steve & Shannon Blixt and Jaren Whitman retired.  He got his first NRA permit in l996 and filled it in 1997.  He missed the 1999 season due to an injury but then went full speed ahead making it to the finals 6 or 7 times and winning the average twice and second once.  And then in 2012 he won the title.  For an “old guy” you do it quite well!!!

Meet Your 2012 Saddle Bronc Rookie Of The Year

Chase Brooks is from Deer Lodge, Montana.  He graduated from Deer Lodge High School.  Chase competed in rodeo for four years and as a senior won the State Saddle Bronc Riding Championship and went on to Nationals in Rock Springs, Wyoming.  He now attends MSU Bozeman, majoring in Business Management.  Chase came into the NRA Finals in 3rd place and ended up 3rd in the year-end standings.  His total earnings for the year are $5,793.49.  He will be one to watch out for in the future!

Meet Your 2012 NWRA All Around Champion and 2012 NWRA Breakaway Roping Champion

Milee Dailey was the NWRA  All Around Cowgirl for 2012 and was also the 2012 Breakaway Roping Champion.  When Milee rides into the arena, she means business and always “gets r done”.  Congratulation Milee!