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Barrel Racing Videos

July 10, 2010 by ~The South Dakota Cowgirl~ 3 Comments

I have been too busy, and then too lazy, when I do get home, to post some videos.

Here’s a run from the first of June:

Here’s a run from last week:

This Wednesday, I took our interns, Kara and Emily, to the barrel race in Onida, SD.

I ran my gray mare, Nora, and my gelding, Gump.

Nora, being her pretty, pokey self:

Gump making a pretty nice run. I think they just get better!

He must’ve stubbed his toe or some such thing when he stumbled coming out of the first barrel, because when he left the arena he was a tad short on his left hind. I was physically sick for a short time after that run because he hadn’t walked out of it and all I don’t need is another crippled horse. But about 15 minutes later he seemed to be fine which made me feel better.

I didn’t win any money at this barrel race, but I did spend $5 and enter a raffle for 1/4 of a butchered pig and guess what? I won! Oh yeah! I was so excited! Kara, did win some money. In fact, she won the 4D, a nice check, a cool, handmade headstall, and a gift certificate to a western store. She was ecstatic.

The rest of our week was spent riding horses. We handled about 16 horses on Thursday and 21 head yesterday. Needless to say, everyone is busy!

Here’s hoping everyone has a great weekend!

XO

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About ~The South Dakota Cowgirl~

Jenn Zeller is the creative mind and boss lady behind The South Dakota Cowgirl. She is an aspiring horsewoman, photographer, brilliant social media strategist and lover of all things western.

After a brief career in the investment world to support her horse habit (and satisfy her mother, who told her she had to have a “real” job after graduating college), she finally took the leap and stepped away from a regular income; trading the business suit once and for all for cowgirl boots, a hat, and jeans. She has not looked back.

When Jenn first moved to The DX Ranch on the South Dakota plains, she never imagined she’d find herself behind a camera lens capturing an authentic perspective of ranching, and sharing it with others. Jenn has always been called to artistry, and uses music, writing, images, home improvement, and her first true love of horses to express her ranching passion.

Horses are the constant thread and much of her work centers around using her unique style of writing to share her horsemanship journey with others in publications such as CavvySavvy, the AQHA Ranching Blog, the West River Eagle, the family ranch website, and her own website.

Using photography to illustrate her stories has created other opportunities -- Jenn’s brand “The South Dakota Cowgirl” has grown to the level of social media “Influencer”. This notoriety has led to work with Duluth Trading Company, Budweiser, Wyoming Tourism, Vice, Circle Z Ranch and Art of the Cowgirl, to name a few. She also serves as a brand ambassador for Woodchuck USA, Arenus Equine Health, Triple Crown Feed and Just Strong fitness apparel. Her photography has been featured by Instagram, Apple, TIME Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Oprah Magazine. Jenn’s work has been published internationally, has been seen in several books and has graced the covers of several magazines.

Jenn became a social media influencer by accident when she started to explore Instagram as a way to share her life on the ranch with folks that don’t get to experience it. It’s grown into an incredible platform that she uses to empower women, create an environment for self improvement and share life on the ranch.

When she’s not working, she loves to drink coffee, play with her naughty border collie named Copper, start ranch colts, and run about the country chasing cans. Her mother still thinks she doesn’t have a “real” job.

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  1. BrownEyedCowgirls says

    July 10, 2010 at 9:50 am

    I was wondering if you was making it to any barrel racings. Gump is looking good. Your right, his last run-2nd looked really good. Glad he came out of his short stride. That is always scary.

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  2. Pseudo says

    July 10, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    I loved watching your videos. In my teen years I had a 1/2 Arab, 1/2 quarter horse, gray speckled gelding named Blue Huaco. He was extremely agile and even though I didn’t really know what I was doing, we always placed in the local barrel racing fun.

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  3. Kristen says

    July 11, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    Nora is still my favorite! I’ve gotta a thing for grays! The runs look nice, and way to go for Kara!

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