Barrel Racing Information For The Southwest
QCBRA Summer Series
6/1, 8, 15, 7/13, 20, 27
Queen Creek
Event Details:
QCBRA Friday Night Lights Series #2 and Open Race – 4D Open format – run order: PeeWee, Youth, Open and Masters 2-3D (depends on number of riders)! Covered Arena. Time Only/Exhibitions before (5-7pm) and after race $5 for 1 minute. Race starts at 7:30pm. 6 week series (6/1, 8, 15, 7/13, 20 *27) July 27 is the finals. Save the Date and Pass the Word Along:) Non-members Welcome! Free Admission – come watch the races!!!
This past weekend I went and shot photos and videos at 2 events that were in different cities and very close together time wise.
I decided at the last minute to have a hat contest since it was Kentucky Derby Day. The winner was Jacie Dunham (in the white shirt above). Who made her own hat and wore it as she was leading a peewee around the barrels.
The first was Saturday night as CCOBRA had their bimonthly barrel race at Mariana Heritage arena. Got there around 5pm for the 7:20 start and I was glad I got there early. Even though I knew it was a night race with 2 hours before I decided to set up the tent anyway.
After the sun went down the top of the tent became a grasshopper magnet. While the people under the tent weren’t bothered at all. The tent will be going up for all night races at that arena.
The tent is a pain to set up and take down but having a general place for riders to get a water and charge their phone is needed. In the near future I will be using the tent to sell merchandise. I already have a following of riders coming to me for the pain spray so that’s always there along with the video phone holder stabilizer.
We had about 110 riders in the open and a combination of about 25 in the youth and peewee. We got finished very late.
You can see all the barrel racing photos from CCOBRA at Marana Heritage Arena here.
The second event was up in Queen Creek. QCBRA put on a race with the upcoming Las Vegas race in mind. Good practice for the riders that are going up to Las Vegas Memorial Day weekend.
Peyton Krahling on MPS Blue Boy.
That race started at 10 am so I decided to drive up to Queen Creek and get a hotel so I would be rested a bit instead of driving an hour home from Mariana and then 2 hours to Queen Creek. It was a little warm but the early start time helped that.
You can see the QCBRA photos here. I am still editing them as we speak but most of the peewee and youth divisions are up.
Once again I am a little late in posting this.
We had a beautiful night of barrel racing. We were in the outdoor arena as they had an event in the indoor arena. I love shooting photos in the outdoor arena.
You can see all the photos here.
As usual we also did a live feed. It was our first time using our new set up. You can see how much more steady it is.
We will be back at QCBRA this Sunday for the Pre All in Race.
A little late with this post but life kind of got in the way.
Last weekend we went to SABRA at Pima County Fairgrounds for a great day of barrel racing and poles. It was so sunny I got sunburnt. Once again another reason to have sunscreen in the car.
Anyway it was a great day. Below are the videos. It is broken up into the barrel races and the poles. Over 5 hours of video. Here is a link to the photos.