weeks following the 4th of July run were plagued with bad luck. Then she made a stellar unbeknownst to her at the time, won the rodeo! performance, which typically isn’t an ideal spot to draw up, “That’s rodeo - you never know; you just gotta go. It ended up being a great draw. I made my run; I thought he worked really good and he ran hard,” Busby said.
At Lovington, Busby ran Dial It Fast a 12-year-old gelding she purchased from Wrangler NFR stopped the electronic eye with a time of 17.61 seconds, which won the rodeo, and Busby was awarded $3,934. She was just eight one-hundreths ahead of
Busby Dialed It In at Lovington A
By: Allie Bohus
ndrea Busby needed something to turn her luck around.
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Andrea Busby had a little luck go her way in Lovington, N.M., running before the rain hit. As a result she and her new mount Dial It raced their way to the barrel racing title. Photo by Peggy Gander
“I show up and do the best I can. Then go on to the next one. You
can’t control the outcome after that. I didn’t really even pay attention he’s on it. He lets me know. Typically when he [Dial It] makes good this business very often so when you do it’s pretty fun,” Busby said.
started. “We barely got loaded up and got the pickup doors closed and it poured on us halfway to Lawton [Okla.],” Busby noted. So Busby ran on dry ground and everyone else at Lovington ran on wet ground, just keep going and do the best you can the day you draw up and let the chips fall where they may.”
Even though at the time of her run Busby wouldn’t have known she would win the rodeo, she knew her run was fast. Dial It runs really we can turn going this fast!” but they made it around and clean. They bounced a little on the second, and ran really hard to the third. “I remember running to the third because I am not kicking. I think we got him fast enough! We can always tell on the videos [that Busby didn’t kick on the way home]. He’s such a good horse – easy to haul, easy to be around, so we love him… He’s been a huge blessing.”
Busby bought Dial It only after some nudging from two-time world champion Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi. After Shada Brazile went to the NFR on Dial It in 2013 she got busy with her kids and not having time to rodeo so Tonozzi talked Busby into trying the horse. It was a trying time for Busby whose husband Jeff had been recently diagnosed with cancer and she lost her incredible mare Kellies Chick “Skye.” “I was over it, I was done,” Busby said. But Tonozzi persisted and because of that Busby ended up with another great horse. “Without
WRANGLER PRORODEO TOUR 11. Katie Pascoe
Standings as of Aug. 13, 2018 1. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi
2. Nellie Miller 3. Kylie Weast
4. Tammy Fischer 5. Stevi Hillman 6. Jana Bean
7. Jessica Telford 8. Ivy Conrado 9. Tracy Nowlin 10. Shali Lord
1215 1175 890 845 745 730 725 650 595 535
12. Michelle Darling 13. Andrea Busby 14. Tanya Jones 15. Katelyn Scott 16. Ericka Nelson 17. Jessi Fish
Kellie Collier
19. Emily Miller 20. Leia Pluemer
485 455 450 420 415
406.7 400 400 360 355
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