The Money Barrel

This week, we are starting a deep dive on the most important thing a barrel racer needs to be successful in competition - great ground. In the first of hopefully a trio of episodes with some of the most knowledgeable tractor men in the game we had the opportunity to talk to Jake Van of the Wilderness circuit and Blackhawk Arena of Salina, UT on his thoughts behind what it takes to make an arena th...

Welcome to the Rundown! Your Monday morning rundown of the latest happenings in barrel racing. This weeks Rundown is brought to our listeners thanks to RideTV!

A few weeks back, at the Royal Crown Horse Sale - Kayla spent the evening with one of everyone's favorite trainers, Ashley Schafer, just discussing, well, everything. Ashley is one of our most requested guests and we thought this would be a fun episode with her. From payouts to ground conditions, exhibitions and mental strength, thoughts on incentives and social media madness and more. They had an...

Welcome to the Rundown! Your Monday morning rundown of the latest happenings in barrel racing. This weeks Rundown is brought to our listeners thanks to RideTV!

Welcome to the Rundown! Your Monday morning rundown of the latest happenings in barrel racing. This weeks Rundown is brought to our listeners thanks to RideTV!

Taycie Matthews is using her experience growing up in the IPRA ranks and the lessons learned during her 2022 rookie season to her advantage this year as she chases her first NFR qualification. Currently sitting 5th in the world standings with just a month to go, we got the chance to talk to Taycie on a rare day off while she's in the Northwest wrapping up the season. We will be rooting to see...

Welcome to the Rundown! Your Monday morning rundown of the latest happenings in barrel racing. This weeks Rundown is brought to our listeners thanks to RideTV!

Welcome to the Rundown! Your Monday morning rundown of the latest happenings in barrel racing. This weeks Rundown is brought to our listeners thanks to RideTV!

Summer Kosel made her splash in the national rodeo scene last year setting the arena record at the Cheyenne Frontier Days. This year she's kept up her winning ways and kept going through the ups and downs to currently be in the top 15! This Badlands Circuit cowgirl and mom of 4 didn't venture much outside her circuit before her main horse, Apollo, had different ideas. They broke their own...

Welcome to the Rundown! Your Monday morning rundown of the latest happenings in barrel racing. This weeks Rundown is brought to our listeners thanks to RideTV!

Sue Smith is a true champion in our sport and has trained some of the best horses we've watched run down the alley. From the futurity world to the NFR, we have seen her win, and in the month of July she won almost $45,000. Winning Ogden, Nampa and Cheyenne with an arena record setting run, Sue is pushing to pursue another NFR qualification this year. We could have multiple podcasts with Sue on...

Welcome to the Rundown! Your Monday morning rundown of the latest happenings in barrel racing. This weeks Rundown is brought to our listeners thanks to RideTV!

Since we started The Money Barrel Podcast, so many of you, the listeners, have asked questions about incentive programs, or asked for an episode about current incentives. Kayla took some time to really look into as many of the incentives as she could and bring you a ton of information. From the Royal Crown, to the Buckles, from the diamond classic, to our very own Colorado Classic, Kayla really di...

Welcome to the Rundown! Your Monday morning rundown of the latest happenings in barrel racing. This weeks Rundown is brought to our listeners thanks to RideTV!

Brandon Myers has a way with horses that very few in our industry do, and his understanding of them and desire to always learn more is something truly unique. When we asked him to be on our podcast he wanted to make one thing absolutely clear - the way he interacts with and views horses comes from a life journey and obstacles rarely talked about on public platforms. Our goal has always been to sha...

We had the opportunity to catch up with Rainey Skelton this week during a few days break for her during the busy July rodeo season. Currently navigating her way through her WPRA rookie year, Rainey is no stranger to success in the rodeo arena - from growing up on the rodeo road travelling with her parents, to her own accomplishments that include winning $60,000 and her WCRA World Championship titl...

As most of you know, our other side gig is the Colorado Classic Futurity and Maturity that was just held last week. We were able to sit down with Brandon Cullins and Emily Efurd and it was a laid back, fun, honest look into the lives of these two incredible trainers and their program. Brandon has won over a million dollars in his career with countless big time wins and big time horses trained on h...

Dr. Marvin Beeman has been a practicing performance equine veterinarian for over 65 years. His knowledge and reputation is unmatched in the industry and this episode is truly special, getting to talk to him about the advances in equine vet medicine over the last 6 decades and some of his favorite moments in his career. We are honored to have had the opportunity to sit down and talk with the legend...

When we released our Patreon subscriber exclusive episode a few months ago and asked our listeners what veterinary questions they wanted to have answered - there were countless questions about bleeding and Lasix usage. We decided to have an entire podcast focused on that topic alone for all of our listeners and here it is! Dr. Melissa Fenn is an internal medicine specialist at Littleton Equine Med...

A few months ago Kayla made a Facebook post congratulating our giraffe training, Switzerland native, best friend on her Lone Star Shootout Derby championship - and everyone thought she was joking. We weren't! Our guest this week is Dani Buhler who not only trains giraffes but is also pretty good at training barrel horses with a resume that includes a college national finals qualification, and...

Crystal Shumate has created a standout barrel racing breeding program based out of Florida. Her program focuses on mares that she has won on and the 3.5 million dollar sire BHR Frenchies Socks. Crystal has created a world class breeding program that focuses on quality over quantity while also working as a nurse and competing herself. We were thrilled to have the opportunity to talk to Crystal and...

This weeks episode is a follow up to our first episode of the year about the Barrel Racing Industry Alliance, or BRIA. We followed up on your questions from the last episode, discussed what QData and EquiStat can do for all programs, what black type pedigrees are really all about, and the hopes for the future of our industry, with BRIA member representatives Lainie Whitmire and Robin Glenn. We&#39...

Amber Moore - also known as Amberleigh Moore in the rodeo world - just came off some big wins in the Northwest Futurity run including champion and reserve champion futurity titles at the Sand Cup. This is a great conversation about her background growing up in the Northwest, the story of her million dollar winning mare CP Dark Moon who qualified 4x to the National Finals Rodeo including a 15th pla...

Here is the second half of the conversation with Billy Myers that covers the bigger picture of how our industry is evolving, even a little cross over about the team roping industry and how the entire western industry is moving in a great direction - the future is bright! 

Breeding Season is in full swing and we thought it was perfect timing to talk about one of the most legendary breeding programs in the western industry. We had the chance to talk to Billy Myers of Myers Performance Horses about basically everything that goes into having a top program. From the history of Frenchmans Guy and Myers Ranch to broodmares and stallion selection, 2 year old sales and the...