Archive for April 2020
NBHA: COVID-19 Update
We sincerely hope this email finds you and your family well. As an association, we love spending time with our members but out of an abundance of caution, many events have been postponed or cancelled. While we cannot make local decisions for our sanctioned district shows, the NBHA National office recommends that you follow the…
Read MoreBrandon Cullins’ Six Keys to Happy Barrel Horses
Six keys to happy barrel horses with NBHA 2019 1D World Champion Brandon Cullins. Make sure they’re happy. “They need to be feeling good and fed good. I like a horse looking really good—the better they look, the better they feel. I like to turn them out a lot. Mental health turns into physical health.…
Read MoreKeep Truckin’
National Barrel Horse Association member Kelley Carrington French juggles racing for an NFR qualification with racing monster trucks around the world. By Blanche Schaefer Kelley Carrington French leads no ordinary life. When she’s not loading up to hit the rodeo road with her mare Slice Of Peachfame, Kelley and her husband Robert French of Boston,…
Read MoreLet the Joneses Go! With Fallon Taylor
By Fallon Taylor, with Danika Kent This article was originally published in the June 2015 issue of Barrel Horse News Let’s face it. If I could wrap Babyflo in head-to-toe bubble wrap and keep her in a padded room until five minutes before a run, I would. She has it all! Hock wraps, compression wraps, polo…
Read MoreJust Say “Thank You”
By McKenzie Morgan, age 17, originally published in the October 2019 issue of Barrel Horse News. Always be grateful, don’t forget to say “thank you,” and try not to have a bad attitude about the little things in this sport. How often do you tell your circle ‘thank you’? I think this is something we…
Read MoreNEW: Updated NBHA Tour Schedule 4.24.20
NBHA has been working hard to secure new dates for Tour Events. Please note the date changes on the NBHA Tour Schedule below. Select Tour Events have been modified for the safety of our members and to adhere to local regulations. If you have entered an event that has experienced a date change, your entry…
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