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ADD YOUR BARREL RACING EVENT!
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Dino Dugosh is a 36yr old
Barrel Racer and horse Trainer. He
is an active member of the NBHA, ANHA, BFA, and AQHA. "Suzi and I have been married a little over 15 years.
Suzi works for Luby's Corporation in the Main Office and hauls to WPRA
rodeos every weekend. I come from a barrel racing family. My sister Donna had been running barrels for 14 years before
I started. I have been around horses all my life. My most favorite memory of horses comes from a renegade mare
that no one else could handle. At
age ten I was the only one she would let mess with her.
That gave me the idea that I had a gift to get along with horses that
other people couldn’t handle. The
mare coliced and died 3 months after she foaled.
That colt was the first horse I did everything with from the ground up. At 15 I got my first car and moved away from horses.
I was in all forms of drag racing (boats, motor cycles and cars).
I meet Suzi a few years later, got married then meet Bud Jones who became
like a dad to me. Bud pulled me
back into the horse industry and Suzi followed suit.
I worked under all types of trainers; Reiners, Western Pleasure, John
Lyons horse handlers, Hunter Jumpers, even rode racehorses, read every book,
watched every video, went to clinics and worked with farriers because I believe
you have to understand every aspect of a horse.
Because of my background I have had a 75% success rate with problem
horses. I have rehabilitated
racehorses and barrel horses, even the horse my wife is rodeoing on is
rehabilitated barrel horse I really like. I
break racehorses and barrel horses for other people, starting them for the first
3 months then someone else takes them on from that point.
I also take stallions and a lot of people don’t like stallions. My most favorite win was the 98 Elite Derby in Glen
Rose, TX. I got the mare 7 days
before the Derby and it was the first competitive run at a BFA event.
She had been giving her owner a lot of trouble and I turned her around.
They ended up selling her as soon as we got home from the Derby.
In ‘99’ I won the 4th of July Shootout at Stockdale, TX.
on a little bay horse called “Tadpole”, he was a gift from Bud Jones.
I also had a Beduino mare that I placed 6th on at the Super
Series at the Rose Palace. Another
horse I really liked was a stud that I rode this year for 3 months and placed 10th
in the SALE Futurity. I would really like to train a Futurity/Derby Champion that would go on to be a WPRA horse for my wife and ultimately become an NFR winner. I believe barrel horses should run with their heart and soul not out of fear and intimidation". |