Friday, December 18, 2015
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Hallie Melvin Hanssen BFA Championship Futurity
Hallie Melvin Hanssen and Overthemoonforaguy placing in the top 10 at the BFA World Championship Futurity winning a little over $13,500 this week. Owned by Jayme Miller Robison. Bendi Dunn Deb Myers. Thank you to all our sponsors. Watch her run here!
#Woodysfeeds #flexineb #tamisemassaddles #platinumtrailers #omegafields #formula707
#Woodysfeeds #flexineb #tamisemassaddles #platinumtrailers #omegafields #formula707
Perkins
Thank you Perkins for everything you've done this year!!!!!! I'm so sorry I hit the 1st barrel last night in the finals!!!! But I'm so appreciative for what you did this week winning over $35,000! Bringing his LTE to $122,000 Thank you Future Fortunes for making this possible!! Thank you Bill and Deb Myers for raising this amazing horse!!!! Thank you Myles, Madi and Aaron Semas for your love and support! ❤❤❤ you Perkins!!! #5starequineproducts #tamisemasbarrelsaddles
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Tami Semas and Perkins Win the 2nd Go of the BFA Futurity
Click here to watch Tami Semas on Smooth and Famous (sire: A SMOOTH GUY) take the 2nd go of the Futurity at the Barrel Futurities of American World Championship.
Fred Hunter
Click here to hear Fred Hunter's thoughts on the Tami Semas Saddle that Nancy Hunter is riding at the NFR.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Hallie Melvin Hanssen and Overthemoonforaguy
Congratulations to Hallie Melvin Hanssen and Overthemoonforaguy placing 7th in the first go of the BFA World Championship Futurity. Watch her run here!
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Hallie Melvin Hanssen
Congratulations to Hallie Melvin Hanssen and Margarita Red Rita. Placing 8th in the toughest BFA $uper $takes in a long time. Watch her great run here!
Hunter and Fuzz Hit Another Gear to Win Round 5 at the Wrangler NFR
12/7/15
Waco, Texas — It keeps getting faster, and this time it was Nancy Hunter and Flit N Fizz "Fuzz" who clocked a 13.62 to win Round 5 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
The impressive run came after Hunter made some changes recommended by her husband, "Well Fred and I reviewed the tapes, and I have to admit the Thomas and Mack is not like [Rodeo]Houston for Fuzz. It's a different set up. Fuzz isn't very courageous running back in that alleyway and was struggling a little bit on the ground. So Fred said, ‘You need to ride him more on the left side, not so straight to that first barrel where he has to stop so hard. Just sit quiet on him through the alleyway." Fred's advice was to not hustle Fuzz as much to be able to get a good first barrel. Hunter admits that Fred's solution for helping her 15 year old gelding worked, but it wasn't easy for her to do, "He took off and it was hard - sometimes I bump him with that inside leg and then he'll pick up a gear and that's what I've been doing. I had to tell myself ‘Fred will probably break my leg if he sees me kick him'. So I sat real quiet on him." Hunter said showing her sense of humor. Photo by Larry Smith
Nancy Hunter NFR Fastest Time of the Week
Nancy Hunter and her horse Fuzz had the fastest time of the week tonight in round 5 of the #WranglerNFR. With a time of 13.62 the 2 time qualifier has earned her first go round buckle. Nancy wears a Glitter like Gold ribbon for the awareness of childhood cancer, as well as a pin of her late father's so he's always riding with her.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Barrel racer Nancy Hunter rides for a cause
Tami Semas Barrel Saddles is proud to sponsor Nancy Hunter and even prouder to support her cause!!
By Todd Dewey
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Competing in her second straight National Finals Rodeo at age 58, barrel racer Nancy Hunter hit two barrels in a disappointing run in the second round Friday night at the Thomas & Mack Center. But she had no problem putting things in perspective.
"I'm very competitive and love barrel racing and making money, but it's not life or death," Hunter said. "It's a fun game, but it's not life or death."
A longtime registered nurse who worked in the emergency room, Hunter doesn't use the words life and death lightly.
One of her four sons was diagnosed with cancer at 10 years old, another had a life-threatening bout with meningitis at 18 months old, and Hunter's daughter-in-law has had three open-heart surgeries and is awaiting a heart transplant.
"Look around and you can always find someone in a worse situation," said Hunter, who lives in Neola, Utah.
Hunter probably won't win a gold buckle here, but she hopes to make the Thomas & Mack glitter like gold in today's third round to help raise awareness for childhood cancer.
Hunter is urging fans to wear gold and donate to the cause (NFR Glitter Like Gold Facebook page). She'll wear a custom-made hat and shirt that will be auctioned off, with proceeds going to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (stjude.org) and Huntsman Cancer Institute (huntsmancancer.org).
"My horse might need goggles I'll have so much gold on," Hunter said. "I just wanted to bring awareness. There's not enough funding for research and research is really the key to finding a cure to saving the kids and that's the whole point."
Hunter's son, Kolton, who survived his battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma and is now 26, will paint his handprint on her horse, Fuzz, and Hunter also plans to have her 4-year-old grandson put a gold handprint on her horse for a young cancer patient and rodeo fan she befriended.
Hunter also has been handing out gold ribbons that signify childhood cancer awareness that will be worn by athletes and animals alike.
Cindy Rosser, whose family puts on rodeos in California and raises bucking horses and bulls, lost her teenage son, Mikel Moreno, to leukemia. She's planning to put one of Hunter's gold ribbons on the flank of her bull, Wolf Deer.
"It fries me that we can live with AIDS now and there's a vaccine for Ebola but the treatment Mikel was on was 20 years old. It had not been tweaked in 20 years. What are we doing?" Rosser said. "I'm just on board because I think, 'Are they doing enough? Are we really trying?' You hear about stuff overseas. It just frustrates me."
Rosser teared up while talking about her son, who died in 2006. "If you cry, you care," Rosser said.
According to curesearch.org, the overall survival rate for childhood cancer has increased from only 10 percent 50 years ago to 90 percent today, but the disease remains the leading cause of death by disease in children.
Hunter joined the Women's Professional Rodeo Association in 1976, the year after graduating high school, but spent most of the ensuing years working as an RN and raising her sons.
That changed about 10 years ago, when she and her horse-trainer husband, Fred, met Fuzz. With his help, Hunter earned $136,777 last year while placing ninth in the world and she has taken home $106,685 this year that's good for ninth in the world.
"He's changed our life," Hunter said of Fuzz. "Financially, he's helped us to survive."
Hunter was offered the equivalent of a blank check for Fuzz but politely declined.
"I just told the guy it would take a lot of money and he said, 'I'll send you the check and you just fill it out,'" she said. "(Fuzz) has earned his spot to retire at my place. He's part of our family. He's taken good care of us and will live out his life at my house."
Hunter was the oldest barrel racer at last year's NFR but is glad that's no longer the case with 60-year-old rookie Vickie Carter in the field.
"I'm not the oldest and I'm so glad," she said. "It works for me. I tell people, 'I'm 39 and holding'."
By Todd Dewey
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Competing in her second straight National Finals Rodeo at age 58, barrel racer Nancy Hunter hit two barrels in a disappointing run in the second round Friday night at the Thomas & Mack Center. But she had no problem putting things in perspective.
"I'm very competitive and love barrel racing and making money, but it's not life or death," Hunter said. "It's a fun game, but it's not life or death."
A longtime registered nurse who worked in the emergency room, Hunter doesn't use the words life and death lightly.
One of her four sons was diagnosed with cancer at 10 years old, another had a life-threatening bout with meningitis at 18 months old, and Hunter's daughter-in-law has had three open-heart surgeries and is awaiting a heart transplant.
"Look around and you can always find someone in a worse situation," said Hunter, who lives in Neola, Utah.
Hunter probably won't win a gold buckle here, but she hopes to make the Thomas & Mack glitter like gold in today's third round to help raise awareness for childhood cancer.
Hunter is urging fans to wear gold and donate to the cause (NFR Glitter Like Gold Facebook page). She'll wear a custom-made hat and shirt that will be auctioned off, with proceeds going to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (stjude.org) and Huntsman Cancer Institute (huntsmancancer.org).
"My horse might need goggles I'll have so much gold on," Hunter said. "I just wanted to bring awareness. There's not enough funding for research and research is really the key to finding a cure to saving the kids and that's the whole point."
Hunter's son, Kolton, who survived his battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma and is now 26, will paint his handprint on her horse, Fuzz, and Hunter also plans to have her 4-year-old grandson put a gold handprint on her horse for a young cancer patient and rodeo fan she befriended.
Hunter also has been handing out gold ribbons that signify childhood cancer awareness that will be worn by athletes and animals alike.
Cindy Rosser, whose family puts on rodeos in California and raises bucking horses and bulls, lost her teenage son, Mikel Moreno, to leukemia. She's planning to put one of Hunter's gold ribbons on the flank of her bull, Wolf Deer.
"It fries me that we can live with AIDS now and there's a vaccine for Ebola but the treatment Mikel was on was 20 years old. It had not been tweaked in 20 years. What are we doing?" Rosser said. "I'm just on board because I think, 'Are they doing enough? Are we really trying?' You hear about stuff overseas. It just frustrates me."
Rosser teared up while talking about her son, who died in 2006. "If you cry, you care," Rosser said.
According to curesearch.org, the overall survival rate for childhood cancer has increased from only 10 percent 50 years ago to 90 percent today, but the disease remains the leading cause of death by disease in children.
Hunter joined the Women's Professional Rodeo Association in 1976, the year after graduating high school, but spent most of the ensuing years working as an RN and raising her sons.
That changed about 10 years ago, when she and her horse-trainer husband, Fred, met Fuzz. With his help, Hunter earned $136,777 last year while placing ninth in the world and she has taken home $106,685 this year that's good for ninth in the world.
"He's changed our life," Hunter said of Fuzz. "Financially, he's helped us to survive."
Hunter was offered the equivalent of a blank check for Fuzz but politely declined.
"I just told the guy it would take a lot of money and he said, 'I'll send you the check and you just fill it out,'" she said. "(Fuzz) has earned his spot to retire at my place. He's part of our family. He's taken good care of us and will live out his life at my house."
Hunter was the oldest barrel racer at last year's NFR but is glad that's no longer the case with 60-year-old rookie Vickie Carter in the field.
"I'm not the oldest and I'm so glad," she said. "It works for me. I tell people, 'I'm 39 and holding'."
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Nancy Hunter's NFR Grand Entry Practice
#TEAMFUZZ getting in some grand entry practice. You take your life into your own hands at this point!!! Nancy is on her new Tami Semas saddle!! Check back when we take a look at why this saddle is such a great fit for their program in our insider Vlog. #NFRGLITTERLIKEGOLD2015 #WNFR
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Glitter Like Gold 2015
Tami Semas Barrel Saddles is proud to join Nancy's fight against childhood cancer. Get all the details on this great cause here!
CHILDHOOD CANCER FACTS
Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in kids.
Before the age of 20, 1 in 285 kids will have some form of cancer.
43 kids daily are diagnosed with cancer, 12% do not survive, that is 1 in 8 kids will lose their battle.
40,000 kids are being treated yearly for cancer.
Spread the word, together we can make a difference!!
Nancy Hunter
Fuzz says "Does my Tami Semas Saddle make me look fast?!!' Big thank you to Tami Semas for sending us this amazing saddle, I love the way it rides. And the leather work is top notch. #tamisemasbarrelsaddles #teamfuzz
We wish Nancy and Fuzz the best of luck at the 2015 NFR!!!
Tami Semas & Smooth N Famous
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