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Front and Center: Sue Smith and Dashs Centerfold Shatter Cheyenne Barrel Racing Arena Record
Records fell in the barrel racing on Finals Sunday at Frontier Park in Cheyenne. Summer Kosel of Glenham, South Dakota, and her 2014 gelding Firewaterfrenchfame (Aint Seen Nothin Yet x Fire Water Flyer x Fire Water Flit) ran a 17.02 in the first round in 2022 to break Kristie Peterson's long-standing arena record of 17.03. On Sunday in the Finals at Cheyenne, Kosel and "Apollo" broke their own record with a 16.97, and it looked like she was on track to win the championship.
But Sue Smith of Blackfoot, Idaho, and her 2011 mare Dashs Centerfold (Dash Ta Fame x Diamonds Tiny Effort x Proudest Effort) had other plans. They beat Kosel’s time by eight-hundredths and set a new record with a time of 16.89 to win the Cheyenne Frontier Days championship.
This was the first time for Smith to run "Centerfold" in Frontier Park, and “she likes it,” Smith said. A trainer of futurity horses who generally competes at rodeos in the Wilderness Circuit, Smith is an EquiStat rider of more than $1.2 million and has earned more than $321,000 in EquiStat reported earnings on Centerfold.
Smith has now trained two Cheyenne Frontier Days champions, as Andrea Busby's 2022 CFD barrel racing champion mount Blazing With My Dude won more than $76,000 at the futurities and derbies under Smith's training and jockeying.
July 30 Cheyenne Frontier Days Barrel Racing Finals Results
Barrel Racing: 1, Sue Smith, Blackfoot, Idaho, 16.89, $10,495. 2, Summer Kosel, Glenham, S.D., 16.97, $8,685. 3, Kassie Mowry, Dublin, Texas, 17.16, $6,876. 4, Lacinda Rose, Willard, Mo, 17.54, $5,066. 5, Tarryn Lee, St. David, Ariz., 17.55, $3,257. 6, Taycie Matthews, Wynne, Ark., 17.56, $1,809.
Media updates courtesy Susan Kanode for CFD, with modification by BHN staff
Photo by JackieJensenPhotography.com
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