Jimmie Smith is just glad to be alive, literally. In late June of this year, she was in a bad vehicle accident on Interstate 80 in Wyoming. Her trailer, loaded with horses, was hit by a semi-truck and trailer, which nearly pushed it through the back of the truck. One…
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It was a trail ride that inspired Jersey Thompson to run barrels. The Westminster, Colo., cowgirl, who is twelve years old, was under the tutelage of her trainer, Marie Stephenson, a barrel racer, when Marie suggested the girl try barrels. So she did, and at the age of five, began…
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There’s a Baby making a big splash in the steer wrestling world, and she’s doing it with 5 Star Equine Products, too. Baby, a nine-year-old quarter horse, is a steer wrestling horse owned by Sam Dixon and ridden mainly by Jacob Talley, Justin Shaffer, and Will Lummus. The blaze-faced sorrel,…
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Rylee Howton and her horses are a walking advertisement for 5 Star Equine products. The Three Rivers, Texas cowgirl is in love with the 5 Star saddle pad, sports leg wraps and sports boots, and they work well for her five horses: Turnpike, Moe, Hildie, Renee, and Lil Mama. She…
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Ashton Padon is in love with her 5 Star Equine Products. The Conroe, Texas cowgirl, a recent graduate of Grace Christian Academy, uses the saddle pads, sport boots, bell boots and shin guards. “I want the best for my babies,” she said of her horses. The pads work well, especially…
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Cole Younger is a 5 Star Equine Products team member. The nine-year-old cowboy, a resident of Oskaloosa, Iowa, competes in the breakaway roping, tie-down roping, goat tying and team roping (as a heeler for his dad.) Of his events, tie-down is his favorite because “you’re always moving and there’s no…
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Don’t mess with Brooke Klinger. She’ll take you down. The 5 Star Equine Products team member has a first degree black belt in karate. But her true love is barrel racing. Growing up in Andover, New Jersey, she did trail rides and participated in English and jumping as well as…
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Beau Peterson loves her 5 Star Equine products, and they have served her well. The Council Grove, Kan. cowgirl has put them to good use, too, as she is a Kansas State High School Rodeo champion in the breakaway roping and goat tying (three titles in each event), and the…
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Jimmie Smith is the 2019 Texas Circuit champion barrel racer and the 2018 WPRA Resistol Rookie of the Year. The McDade, Texas cowgirl won all her Texas money on a special horse, a ten-year-old mare, LenaOnTheRocks, “Lena.” The mare, a palomino, loves the winter rodeos, and she and her rider…
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Hope Thompson is one of the lucky women in rodeo who can make her living with horses. The Abilene, Texas cowgirl, a breakaway roper and team roper, trains horses and gives clinics on roping. She was born and raised in Atlanta, Texas and attended McNeese State in Lake Charles, La.,…
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ennifer Sharp competed at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo last month. It was the first qualification for the 5 Star Equine team member, who lives in Richards, Texas. She and her husband Robbie own and operate Sharp Performance Horses, riding colts for the public and training barrel and performance horses.…
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Dona Kay Rule is a 5 Star Equine Products Team member, and she’s headed to her first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo this month. One of best friends, High Valor “Valor” is going along. Actually, he’s the reason she’s headed to Vegas. Valor, a ten-year-old sorrel gelding, out of Rare High…
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