Jayden's good friend Morgan has a horse like no other. It is a one of a kind amazing animal. Once in awhile an outstanding horse comes along and you don't forget them. The first time I saw the horse was down at the Dayton PRCA and this little girl age 10, was riding her. Her dad, who later became family friends said to me this would be her first run on this new horse. My first thought was that he was crazy to let his young daughter run in the PRCA Dayton rodeo for her first time. Nothing like throwing her in with the big dogs, PRCA . She was little, but she handled that horse well. Since then I have seen Morgan run her horse dozens of times. She is a grey mare named Blueberry with a big heart and can run like the wind. She ran in 2015 in the TMRA the same year Jayden joined. She ran in IRCA in 2016 going neck in neck with Jayden and Ace for the Rookie of the year. Jayden led all year into finals. Morgan and Blueberry had a smokin finals and took Rookie of the year along with Reserve Champion Barrel Racer for the year. She would turn her barrels so tight she had to lift her leg up almost above the saddle so as not to hit the barrel. We saw her bump many barrels that slowly tipped, then came back and were still standing. She ran at the Vegas Junior NFR that year and we traveled out and got to cheer her on. In 2017, she continued to run in IRCA and tried out for the "American" a big rodeo that pays $10,000 to the winner and a million to the 3 year winner.She also tried out again for the Junior NFR. Although she didn't qualify for either, she won many IRCA rodeos, made finals, and had another amazing year. She runs Bluberry in anything and everything for competitions. They hauled clear across the country to 3 Junior NFR qualifiers , turn around and drive through the night to be up at a rodeo back home. They went out to Wyoming, Arizona, Kansas. She runs in local jackpots, NBHA barrel racers, youth rodeos, IRCA rodeos and backyard barrel races. I can't count the number of runs that horse makes in one year. There are many times, she will enter in an open and a youth division in a double show in one day. That means 4 runs in the same day, then turn around and go on a 4 day rodeo run. I am mind blown at how much that little mare gets run and stays sound and healthy. Horses generally start having lameness issues or health problems. Not only that, barrel horses can't take run after run or the pressure. They lose their minds and start getting hot and acting crazy. They need a mental break, going trail riding, roping, some other activity. Not Blueberry, she can go and go. She is one of a kind. Even the PRCA girls that run all season to make the NFR generally have 2 up to 6 horses they haul and rotate in order to make the finals. They never run the same horse over and over. I was always told a horse only has so many runs in them and you make every one count. You don't want to over run your horse. Blueberry just seems to keep getting better. Morgan is a good rider and is learning more the older she gets. This year Blueberry is on fire!! She has been winning at almost every IRCA rodeo. It is awesome just to place, but they are winning the rodeos or sometimes taking 2nd or 3rd. She went to a Junior NFR qualifer and won the whole thing! She will be going on to Vegas again this winter. Girls travel to qualify from all over the country. She has broke arena records this year. She has won rodeos almost a whole second ahead of anyone else. I am telling you, that horse is incredible!! As she continues to run, we watch her win and break records time after time. She still goes and runs 4 times at an NBHA, then another day she enters slack at one rodeo and a rodeo performance in the same day, day after day. The month of July she showed Jayden her schedule and she runs nearly every day and some of those are more than one rode in a day. I have no doubt if Morgan was older, she could be running the Pro circuit and could run with the big dogs. Blueberry is quite a horse and one nobody around here will forget. She is one of those horses everybody hopes for.
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