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1 JUNE 19, 2018 Volume 12: Issue 25 Published Weekly Online at - Since 2007In This Issue: Syracuse Spectacular, pg 9 CO Classic, pg 12 Dash For Dollars, pg 22 FL State NBHA Finals, pg 29 Pro Rodeos & World Standings, pg 32 All American Youth, pg 34fast horses, fast newsDance Party -- Kynzie McNeill and Jitterbugz Win College National FinalsBy Tanya Randall Kynzie McNeill, a recent graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, closed her collegiate career with a barrel racing cham-pionship at the College National Finals Rodeo, held in Casper, Wyoming, aboard her 8-year-old gelding Jitterbugz ( JB ). A three-time qualifier for the CNFR, McNeill and JB, whom she purchased from Bo Hill a year ago, placed on all four runs.

2 They were fifth in the first round with a , won the second in , placed third in the third with a and used a third-place finish with a in the short round to win the average in He s actually more of an outside horse, she explained. He loves outside pens. His first barrel in little pens can get a little wide, so I knew if we could nail our first we d be fine. On my first run, I didn t send him as hard. I let him kind of coast, so he could see it and know where it was. He nailed it the first round, so I thought I d send him a little harder. For the next three runs, I sent him hard and he just nailed it. As the ground got faster, he continuously got faster. Through the whole week, he just got faster and faster.

3 He worked the same the whole time, stayed free and never tried to short me. He did really good. McNeill took comfort in knowing that JB wasn t likely to get short on her even as she made more runs in the small confines of the Casper Arena. That s one of the cool things about him, she said. As long as I ve had him, he s never gotten short with me. I ve maybe hit a bar-rel one time. Bred by Hill and her husband Jeff Switzer, JB is by their leading sire Famous Bugs out of the Disco Jerry mare Dancing Rose Lady. Hill trained and futuritied the gelding. I was looking for a horse and had tried quite a few, recalled Mc-Neill. Jana Bean had texted Bo about a horse that she had trained and sold as a 3-year-old, and Bo said she might sell Jitterbugz if it was to the right person.

4 I ran up there and tried him and knew that I needed him. McNeill didn t have the gelding long before he colicked. I bought my card for the first time last year, she said. My plan was to rodeo up North until about August, but at my third rodeo he colicked and almost died. I barely got to start running him again in January. We had a full spring of learning to get together. It went a lot faster than I thought it would. McNeill, who wanted to thank Hill for training JB and her parents Paige and Lisa for helping her get down the road, is up at Pleasant Grove, Utah, this Wednesday and Reno, Nevada, on Friday. Her summer rodeo run will be short this year as she s taken a graduate position at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla-homa.

5 She ll serve as the assistant rodeo coach while working on her master s degree in animal science with an emphasis on ruminant nutrition. I have to go home right after the Fourth, she said. I ve got to move up to Stillwater. I m planning on trying to hit some close stuff, like Dodge City, stuff like that. CNFRJune 10-16, 2018, Casper, WYTotal on Four1 Jitterbugz, Kynzie McNeill, Texas Tech University, 10 ch. g. Famous Bugs-Dancing Rose Lady, Disco JerryCNFR Continued on Page 5 All AmericAn roseJitterbugznever DAncetbDAncing rose lADyDisco Jerrytb2010 chestnut gelDingseA bouquettbrocket WrAnglersi 97rose bugsi 96ms WAhini bugsi 99 First DoWn DAshsi 105 FAmous bugsDAsh tA FAmesi 113suDDen FAmesi 98bugs Alive in 75si 94 WAhiniriDer/oWner: kynzie mcneill breeDer: bo hill & JeFF sWitzerBarrel Racing report June 19, 2018 Page 2 Tracy & Dusti Swan Hubbard, TX cell: (Tracy)- www.

6 The barrel Racing report is emailed weekly, every Tuesday night, 52 weeks per year by Tracy and Dusti Swan, Hubbard, TX. The information enclosed in this issue is courtesy of the barrel Racing report . If you reprint any of the following information verbatim, or if you read it verbatim on a radio or television broadcast, please mention that the information is courtesy of the barrel Racing report . If an article is authored please contact us before using the results have been approved by event producers or association personnel. All breeding information is provided via AQHA and/or APHA and is approved content. The information provided in the barrel Racing report is believed to be accurate.

7 The barrel Racing report will not be responsible for mistakes. However, we would like to correct any that we may have. Please give us a call or email us at In the THE the the the College National Finals Rodeo Crowns 2018 Champions Saturday night at the 70th College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR) is traditionally championship night. That means the top 12 in each event after three preliminary rounds compete to determine 2018 national championships in nine events, plus men s and women s all-around and team titles. In seven of the nine events, athletes who held the lead after the first three rounds were able to hold off all challengers. But there were come-from-behind winners in one men s and one women s event, In the bareback riding Tyler Berghuis, a 22-year-old from Atwa-ter, Minnesota, who attends Tarleton State University in Stephen-ville, Texas, won the national title at his first CNFR.

8 The senior ag industries and agencies major who will graduate in August, won three of the four rounds en route to his first championship. Ty Harris, a freshman at Cisco College, had clocked a time in the eight-second range to finish first or second in the first three rounds. The 19-year-old tie-down roper from San Angelo, Texas, finished with a total time of seconds for the win. Harris, an ag business major, is currently third in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys As-sociation rookie standings in his event. Australian cowboy Jake Finlay, who competed for Oklahoma Pan-handle State University was crowned the new champion in saddle bronc riding. Finlay, 23, was a member of last year s men s cham-pionship team.

9 He just earned his animal science degree and was competing in his third CNFR. Finlay s title led Panhandle State to their second consecutive men s team win. In steer wrestling Tristan Martin of Sulphur, Louisiana, who competed for East Mississippi Community College, had turned in times of or seconds in the first three rounds. The rodeo announcers said the senior marketing major needed a time of five seconds to win the title, and that s exactly what Martin delivered. The standout athlete of the night was Mia Manzanares from McNeese State University. The 21-year-old senior majoring in health and human performance held the lead in goat tying after finishing second in two rounds.

10 With the fastest time of the week 5. 9 sec-onds, she left no doubt who was this year s top hand in goat tying. Manzanares also qualified for the final round of breakaway rop-ing, despite finishing no better than 13th in any of the first three rounds. Her times of or seconds on her first three calves were consistent and put her in ninth place. She virtually cut her time in half, tying the arena record with a time of seconds to win the final round. That gave her a total of seconds and when the event ended, Manzanares was crowned national champion. Her domination of the finals earned Manzanares the women s all-around national championship and single-handedly boosted Mc-Neese State to the women s team championship by just five points over Texas Tech University.