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Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
Awards $1 Million to TX 4-H’ers
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo awarded 70 Texas 4-H
members with four-year, $16,000 scholarships totaling $1,120,000
during the Texas 4-H Roundup in College Station, Texas, June 13.
As one of the oldest Show scholarship programs, more than
2,000 scholarships have been awarded to Texas
4-H members since the Show’s fi rst major educational commitment
in 1957.
These scholarships are just part of the Houston Livestock Show
and Rodeo’s more than $16 million annual commitment to scholarships,
research, endowments, calf scramble participants and junior
show exhibitors. Also included is support of the Rodeo Institute for
Teacher Excellence, School Art participants, and other educational
and youth programs.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is a 501(c)(3) charity
that benefi ts youth, supports education, and facilitates better
agricultural practices through exhibitions and presentation. Since
its beginning in 1932, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has
committed more than $265 million to the youth of Texas.
The 2012 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo will run Feb. 28 –
March 18. For more information, visit www.rodeohouston.com.
Heiligbrodt Race Dispersal
Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt, Houston, Tex., ranked among the
nation’s leading Thoroughbred owners for nearly two decades, announced
on Monday, June 20 that they will disperse their Heiligbrodt
Racing Stables beginning with approximately 80 head slated for a July
12 session, immediately following the last session of the Fasig-Tipton
Selected Yearling Sale in Lexington, Ky.
The Heiligbrodts have owned or co-owned 118 stakes winners,
including 1997 Arlington Million winner Marlin with $2.4 million and,
since 2005, have claimed over 650 wins and $21.5 million in earnings.
Bill Heiligbrodt, 70, a retired fi nancial services and banking executive,
grew up in rural South Texas, where Quarter Horses prevailed
and where he and Corrine established a ranch near Palacious to
breed and compete with cutting horses. Between 1990 and 1999, they
won fi ve NCHA Open World championships with Cash Quixote
Rio (1990 and 1992) and Meradas Little Sue (1995, 1997 and 1999),
who retired as cutting’s all-time leading money earning mare with
$670,000.
During the same time period, Bill formed a racing partnership with
fellow Texans Ted Keefer and Buddy New. Their fi rst purchase was
a $5,200 yearling colt named Appealing Breeze that would run out
$553,327.
In 2001, the Heiligbrodts sold Meradas Little Sue for a record
$875,000 during the NCHA
Futurity Sales, and phased out of cutting competition.
The Phase I Heiligbrodt catalog, handled by Bluewater Sales, will
include horses three and up currently racing, as well as two-year-olds
in training; bred mares with 2011 foals at side; and yearlings. Catalogs
and race performance records will be available online at fasigtipton.
com, beginning June 22. --Courtesy of www.SallyHarrison.com
Carthage Turns Rodeo Into Benefi t
For Tornado Victims in Joplin
The Carthage (Mo.) Saddle Club PRCA Rodeo almost didn’t happen
over the June 17-18 weekend. Offi cials had considered canceling
the fourth-annual event in the aftermath of the devastating tornado
that ripped through neighboring Joplin, Mo., less than a month earlier.
What the rodeo committee did instead was create an event that
stood tall as a demonstration of unity that links rodeo and the Missouri
community.
The Carthage rodeo became a benefi t for the people of Joplin,
which is just 15 miles from Carthage, raising money via donations
and a silent auction.
Rodeo attendees – there were 400-600 each night, according to
committeeman John Hency – were also encouraged to bring canned
food to help their neighbors from Joplin.
It was an emotional night June 17, when the ceremonies started
with the presentation of an American fl ag that had fl own above one
of the schools in Joplin and was found among the rubble after the
tornado.
“You’ll notice that it’s dirty, and you’ll notice that it’s torn,” rodeo
announcer Tim Fuller told the crowd, “but one more thing you ought
to notice, is that it’s hanging there proud – just like the city and the
citizens of Joplin.”
John Hacker, managing editor at the Carthage Press, noted that the
community of Carthage was very receptive to the rodeo and benefi t,
and that many of those in attendance were likely from Joplin.
The amounts of money raised and food collected were still being
sorted out as of the afternoon of June 20, but no matter the numbers,
the rodeo brought some distraction and relief – both of which
were very much needed – to those from Joplin. --Courtesy of www.
prorodeo.com
GAC Tweaks Schedule for Upcoming Telecasts
Great American Country has pushed the upcoming telecasts
of Seminole Hard Rock Xtreme Bulls events, presented by B&W
Hitches, back half an hour from their previous timeslot.
The next telecast will be the Xtreme Bulls event from Reno, Nev. It
will air on July 3 at 10 p.m. eastern time, with reairs on July 4 at 2 a.m.
(ET) and July 10 at 10 p.m. (ET). The Xtreme Bulls stop in Cody,
Wyo., will air on July 17 at 10 p.m. (ET), and again on July 18 at 2 a.m.
(ET), July 24 at 10 p.m. (ET) and July 25 at 2 a.m. (ET).
The tour will then take a break on GAC until September, since
there are no Seminole Hard Rock Xtreme Bulls events scheduled in
July or most of August. The tour stop in Bremerton, Wash. – scheduled
for Aug. 28 – will fi rst air on GAC on Sept. 11 at 10 p.m. (ET).
GAC is available on Dish Network channel 167 and DirecTV
channel 326. Cable subscribers should check their local listings for
availability.
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