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Midway Middle’s Hannah Horne dazzles at NBHA world competition
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Hannah Horne poses with her horse April’s Diamond, a horse that allowed her to place in two divisions at the NBHA qualifying event.
According to Horne, she has been riding horses since before she could walk due to her father’s influence.
“My dad grew up riding horses, so I just started riding them too. I grew up riding with him,” Horne shared.
In addition to riding horses, a talent that ran in the Horne family, the rising eighth-grader further revealed that she trained her first horse at the age of three, and ever since that point, she said she fell in love with riding.
“I had a lot of bumps and bruises, but I persevered and got through it,” Horne said, with her mother, Gail, adding that it taught her daughter patience.
While training her pony, Scooter, Horne learned how to saddle him, break him in and get him used to riding.
“I taught him what it was like to have someone riding him,” Horne put into basics, adding that once Scooter was trained in those areas, she moved on to driving.
Although riding horses has been a passion of Hannah’s her entire life, gaming is something that she began roughly five years ago.
“I started gaming five years ago, but the last two years is when I really started getting into competing,” Horne revealed.
According to an explanation from Horne, she has been running her horses all season in order to fix mistakes by the time the qualifying race came around.
Horne revealed that she received Top 15 at state finals, which helped her to qualify in February at the NBHA District 04 of North Carolina qualifying event.
During the event, Horne placed in both the second and third division with her horse, April’s Diamond, and by doing so, she was able to bring two horses to the championship.
Basically, the races are divided into four division: First being the quickest time; second being the quickest time plus .5 seconds; third being the quickest time plus one second; and fourth being the quickest time plus two seconds.
According to Horne, the 2009 NBHA Youth World Championship was held in Jackson, Miss., a 15 hour drive that was both exhausting and well worth it, Hannah shared.
Horne, a few friends and her family arrived in Jackson, Miss. a day early in order to let the course set in and allow the horses time to adjust to the weather change.
“We had to let the horses get used to the climate,” Horne clarified.
On Sunday of the competition, Horne jumped on April’s Diamond for three barrel races, which basically go in a clover leaf formation.
“The closer you get to the barrel, the faster you will go,” Horne said, adding that if you hit the barre,l the rider is disqualified.
Unfortunately, Horne did not qualify for the final competition with April’s Diamond.
“She didn’t give me all that she had. Going from the second barrel to the third, she slipped and never came back. I am happy to have had a clean run though because there were so many competitors that knocked over barrels,” Horne reported.
On Monday, July 20, Horne rode her second horse, Shyanne, three times and eventually qualified for the finals.
During the finals, Horne ended up with a placement of third in the world, with a finishing time of 15:08: 51, which was only two seconds behind the first place winner, who raced a 13:07:64.
“It made me feel happy to be only seconds behind the winner, but two seconds is a lot faster when you are barrel racing. I was blessed to have gotten has far as I did because many people don’t,” Horne voiced.
In recognizing her accomplishment, Horne extended her gratitude to her sponsors,
“I want to thank my sponsors, with God being my main sponsor. They made my dream come true,” Horne expressed.
In addition to racing horses, Horne is also an exceptional student, maintaining and A/B average on the honor roll.
She also participates in volleyball, basketball and is a member of the Beta Club.
As for her future, Horne hopes to continue racing and eventually compete against people other than those in her age group, 13 and under.
“Throughout the year, I hope to get faster and better. Eventually I want to get into the Open with everyone and not just people in my age group,” Horne told.
Jessica Wagner can be contacted at (910) 592-8137 ext.122 or reached by e-mail at siphoto@myclintonnc.com.
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« BarrelMama wrote on Tuesday, Aug 11 at 05:15 PM »
First of all Stefanie Nunnery let me congratulate you on making it to the World Finals. As the mother of one of the other barrel racers that made it to the finals I know the hard work and dedication that it takes to accomplish such a wonderful opportunity. It's to bad you and your family don't concentrate on the positive aspect of your accomplishments but on the misprints found in a small town newspaper! The comraderie and friendships developed between fellow barrel racers run deep and are life long. As a mother I know competition between girls can be a difficult factor making friends. With your attitude I worry about you. Please reconsider how you talk about and treat your fellow riders. This comment isn't very attractive and it reflects strongly on you and your attitude. Good luck in the future. Play nice!
« audrey34 wrote on Tuesday, Aug 11 at 12:04 AM »
This is for stefanienunnery,I know Hannah,and I know she is awesome at what she does.Why would you write this in here?I mean really?Is it jealousy or a sickness that you have?Or are you the sick twisted parent??She is a wonderful girl who lives for god and has grown up around horses.She has a dad that has taught her all the great in her,and has even learned more on her own.Same on you.I do hope that you get well.As for you Hannah,great job!!!!I knew you would do great!!!Reach for the stars,because the skys the limit:)
« acarpenter wrote on Thursday, Aug 06 at 09:22 AM »
Hi! After reading the comment from Ms. Nunnery, I must express my opinion as well. As far as the number of entries, it would not matter to me if there were only 100 entries - the fact that Hannah did such a fantastic job in the competition is satisfaction to me. When we are so fortunate to see our youth excel in their accomplishments - we should praise them. Ms. Nunnery's comments are not appreciated when she obviously does even know this family. I've seen Hannah grow up riding horses - I still remember her riding on the front of her Dad's horse with her little helmet & her small feet in horn stirrups. She is a beautiful young lady & only deserves praise. Numbers don't matter, seconds nor divisions - she has the ribbons, memories and most of all the love & support of her family and friends. I've rode horses all my life and have suffered injuries over the years - but, I am still riding. This family absolutely should be proud - as my deceased 85 year old Father (who was a horse trainer until his 70's - we had harness race horses) - would say, "If you cannot say anything positive, you don't need to say anything at all - your comments could affect someone's self-esteem - praise your youth - they are our future." Newspapers try to print the truth - but, perhaps there were over 900 horses registered to compete - or it was just a misprint - who cares - please give this wonderful beautiful girl uplifting words. "Way to go, Hannah - we are so proud of you!"
« stefanienunnery wrote on Monday, Aug 03 at 06:21 PM »
Hi, i would like to comment on this article because many of the facts in it are very false. I myself attended the National Barrel Horse Association Youth World a few weeks ago. I am a fellow barrel racer and have been since the age of seven, my mother has been competing in the sport for over twenty years and our family life pretty much revolves around barrel racing and owning top of the line barrel horses. The facts that I am about to give you can be found on www.nbha.com under the results from the youth world show. The first false statement that I would like to bring up is the fact that in the youth the division, the one that Hannah was running in, did not have 967 contestants in it, it only had 797 contestants. The child in the article did not place third in the youth finals, meaning she did not run the third fastest time. She received third place in the 4d, which your article does a fine job explaning. Two seconds in barrel racing is not a small gap as your article suggests, in reality it is actually a long amount of time. Many barrel racers refer to it as a days difference. Also another mistake that is made in your article is that a 13.0 did not win the class, a 13.7 did and hannah horne did not run a 15.0 she in fact ran a 15.8. Now for other thing. The way the world championship show works is that riders compete in two long goes, meaning they run two times on each horse they are competing on. In these two long goes the top 20 in each division out of each long go are taken back to what is called the short go or the finals. That means that when the child in the article ran and won third in the 4d she was actually only competing against 180 people. The child also did not receive Top 15 at the state finals and even if she did that does not get her qualified to go to Mississippi. You qualify to go to youth world by being top 5 in point standings in your district for the entire year. People run all year to qualify to go, you dont just qualify at one show. It is a great accomplishment to make it back to the finals and i congratulate Hannah for that, but all I am trying to get across is that maybe you as a newspaper should check your facts before you publish them for people to read.
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