
Horses must be not only swift, but accurate in their ability to maneuver around the barrels with ease and agility. If the rider or the horse makes contact with a barrel, it can be touched in order to keep it from falling. If not, each fallen barrel adds a penalty of five seconds to the rider’s final time. The sport is timed to the hundredth of a second. An “electric eye,” or automatic stopwatch serves as the timer on the arena floor and starts and stops once the horse and rider run in front of it. A fast run is 17 seconds or less.
2020 WPRA World Champion: Hailey Kinsel, Cotulla, TX
2020 DRR Champion: Shelley Morgan, 17.04 seconds
DRR Arena Record: Ann Scott, 16.81 seconds, 2014
This year’s Barrel Racing is sponsored by:
