See No Evil Race 1

What an exciting time we all had this past weekend. The day had finally arrived for our 1st ever See No Evil Benefit Race. We had a few hiccups but I was blessed to have such great friends and family be able to come together to make this race a success for both Stacey & Dominique. Dreaming of Three, Jackie Clifton with BAR Productions and Tammy Kidd-Coward with Wild West Promotions collaborated along with the new Pro-Line Speed Event System created by Danny Kraatz. The Pro-Line System had it's first official test run at our race. This new system enables a text to be sent to your phone when you are 20 runners away, texts you your time and so much more. It truly is the future of speed events and we where lucky enough to use it FIRST!

The arena and facility was decked out in See No Evil banners thanks to Arlington Quick Sign! They also designed our barrel covers. If you need something done for an event, Arlington Quick Sign can get it done for you. Everything looked fantastic.

Exhibitions filled up fast, riders from all over Texas an Oklahoma hauled in and we had 90 horse/rider combinations compete. We had a few problems with the tractor but we had an understanding crowd who was patient for us to work through it.

Our Silent Auction turned out great and pulled in a lot of money. Deni Oster was our lucky raffle winner of the Hidez Equine Travel & Recover Compression Body Suit valued at $600.

We had a lot of fabulous runs from some amazing jockeys and horses at our race. However none could out run Patti Wellmon and her mare LuLu who out ran them all to be our 1st Divisional Champions with a 14.725. Shannon Black was a mere half second behind as our 2nd Divisional Champion on her horse Roanie with a 15.308. Celsey Rater jockeyed her sorrel horse Jets Flit Folly Bar to be our 3rd Division Champion with a time of 15.728. Terry Vestor rode her gray horse Brody for a time of 16.271 to be our 4th Divisional Champions. Each of our Champions went home with $198.75 each and awards from our sponsors including ribbons from Ribbons n Beyond, 10lb pails of Forco Digestive Fortifier, Intensify Challenge from Bluebonnet Feeds, Trophy Cuff Bracelets from Craft & Crown and Patti also went home with 1 Natural Alternative Grazers "N.A.G. Bags", 1 Quart of LubriSyn Equine, and one certificate for a HIDEZ Equine Travel & Recovery Compression Body Suit valued at $600.

After it was all said and done we where able to raise over $1000 each for both Dominique and Stacey. It could not have came at a better time as Dominique has been in the hospital for going on 1 month with Pancreatitus and a fever and Stacey is in the works of acquiring her Seeing Eye Dog and is needing to make arrangements with her eye doctor. Thanks to Jackie Harris, founder of Dreaming of Three, the barrel racing world is coming together to help these families!

None of this could have happened with out all of wonderful volunteers. They Bryant family helped out tremendously by setting barrels, digging stakes, and tractor driving, fellow Do3 Member Erica Cole worked hard learning the new Pro-Line System and doing the books, her father Billy also was a big help by doing a lot of the tractor driving as well. Paige Autenreib kept things flowing by handling the entry table, Bobbye Hayes, Randy Miller and Jackie served up the food in the concession, and Marvin Hayes helped set up the banners in the Arena. Jon Baker Photography did a fantastic job taking out runners photos and our win pictures at the end of the race. I am pleased to say that he will be our Official Photographer of the See No Evil Series and will be at all of our races. 

Below our are winners for our race. Not pictured is Shannon Black, our 2D Champion, who donated $100 of her winnings back to Dominique and Stacey.