TEXAS Team Do3: Texas for Oklahoma

As most know Oklahoma has suffered a series of tragic tornadoes that have caused a huge amount of destruction, death and devastation to many communities. On May 20th, an EF5 mile wide tornado with 200mph winds tore through the town of Moore, Oklahoma. I was shocked to turn on the news and watch the tornado live on TV from it's beginning to its dissipation. Immediately as I witnessed it's massive path I knew that the aftermath would be horrific. Given Moore is a somewhat rural town, it would be inevitable that many families would be losing their beloved pets and companions.

After the storm had cleared, news crews immediately started filming and learning about survival stories. One of those being from an exercise rider(a rider who works out race horses in the morning) who hunkered down in a stall, which collapsed on top of him and in the end actually saved his life. After he arose from what little rubble was left, he was left looking around at nothing but flat land blown away and scattered to who knows where. Barns gone, horses gone, everything gone! The 106 acre Orr Family Farm was lost into oblivion and the saddest part was that the horses where gone to. Scattered across the farm and else where these beautiful creatures where left to be found by their owners. My heart bled for the farms who lost so much and I immediately reached out to my "Jackies", Jackie Harris, Do3 Founder, and Jackie Clifton, Barrel Director of BAR Productions who has been my guiding light hosting the See No Evil Races. So within hours we had a plan to host a benefit barrel race to help Orr Family Farm. Little did we know this quick throw-together race would turn into such a huge inspirational endeavor!

Quickly the race gained steam with support and donations from sponsors and racers. Our little race was receiving a little bit of added money and awards and things where starting to look up. Then to my surprise, Bekki Cakerise, whom is a local racer who wanted to help, did us a little favor. After mentioning the race to the ranch she works at, Copperstone Farm stepped up to make a huge donation to our race to help give local jockeys more incentive to come run for a cause and wanted to help the those of Oklahoma as well. Thanks to their generous contribution we are now able have the Copperstone Farm $1500 Added Texas For Oklahoma 5D Benefit Barrel Race which will also include a $300 Youth Incentive, Cake Lope(think cake walk on horses), Silent Auction, Raffle Prize and breast collars to champion in Each D. Twisted Tack and The Western edge wanted to join in on our efforts and they donated one of their Angel Wings Breast Collars, Valued at $325 to our 1D winner. This fabulous race will be held at Dancing Oaks Ranch(Gibtown Arena) in Poolville, Texas on June 1st.

To make things even better, Cowgirl Tuff reached out to me to let me know that they decided to hold a live auction after their B.Tuff Foundation Race so they could combine 100% of their auction money to our money raised! I am absolutely on cloud 9 yet again to see how the western community can come together in such a huge effort. I am determined to make Dreaming of Three's Benefit's some of the best local benefit's in Texas and they are well on their way to that! To have Cowgirl Tuff and Copperstone Farm behind us in just almost unbelievable. Thank you so much to both of you for making such a big difference!

We are also going to be using the new ProLine SE System form Barrier Tec which combine's social media with the computer program to run the races. It sends a text to your phone when you are 20 runners out, sends a text to your phone with your run time, has immediate results and payouts and so much more. It truly is the future of speed events and we are one of the first to be able to demo it thanks to Danny Kraatz and Barrier Tec!

The race will run exhibitions from 11-3 with the Cake Lope following Exhibitions and the Open to follow the Cake Lope. I cannot wait for this race to get here because I know it's going to be fantastic for everyone! We want to make it great for our jockey's as well as the Orr Family Farm. There will be a $40 Entry Fee with 80% Payback. Gibtown Arena is also going to set the official Arena Record at this race, therefor will be awarding our 1D winner an ADDITIONAL $100 to their earnings! It's going to be a great event for an even greater cause and I am thrilled to be hosting it along side Jackie Clifton. I could have never been able to do all of this without her! I'm excited to see what we can come up with for Orr.To even imagine being in their shoes and suffering what they have gone through in unbelievable, heart wrenching and I hope Dreaming of Three's efforts can help make a difference for them in every way possible. For more information visit www.barproductions.com for arena info or visit the FB Event page https://www.facebook.com/events/604952009525736/https://www.facebook.com/events/604952009525736/