NRHA Derby Blog brought to you by Christa Morris and Sydney Fay Merdinger
Check out this great video from SmartPak highlighting the intense competition at the ‘Put the Feed Scoop Down Challenge.’
PLUS an interview from the SmartPak Exhibitor Party Egg & Spoon Race winners (coming soon).
A special thank you goes out to Sandy and Gary Vickery for donating a bucket full of sliding plates for the “Be a Shoe-In for WEG!”
Amazing Race’s (and Tupelo, Oklahoma’s own) Jet McCoy and Dell Handricks doing an interview with the Reiner’s Katie Hendrickson (with his wife and adorable baby girl in the wings).
And the awesome Sydney Fay Merdinger shooting some video for her blog postings (I hear that some of you run when we come through the barns with a camera 
Come on, guys. We don’t bite lol.
You can always bet you’re going to see lots of cute dogs when you’re at a horse show. We captured some of their talents for you to see in this video. I mean, afterall, they need to be recognized too… for all of those hours hanging out in the truck on the way to the show, for sitting in the bleachers waiting patiently for us to be done showing and for brightening our day when our run didn’t go as planned.
The finals of the Cimarron Trailers Amazing Trailer Race was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
We shot this following the prelims for the Cimarron Trailers Amazing Trailer Race…
The Platinum Performance Draw Parties. The open and non pro finalist eat some great grub and got super gifts from Platinum Performance and NRHA. It was a good time for sure!
Friends came together at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to salute the 2009 NRHA World Champions, 2010 NRHA Hall of Fame Inductees and the NRHA Dale Wilkinson Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Following the banquet guests had a chance to battle it out at the RHSF Casino Night.
Watch Wednesday’s video from the NRHA Derby. We’re all about taking care of bizness and, of course, our ponies. From peppermints in SmartPaks to Port-A-Cools in the shed rows, we’ve got everyone feeling happy… Oh, and don’t forget today was White Water Bay Day. They weren’t really sure what to do when we showed up with a trailer load of reiners. We just told them we’d stay away from the slides and hang out on the Lazy River. 
just kidding…
WATCH THE VIDEO. “It’s all about the horses”
It’s Wednesday at the NRHA Derby and, for staff, we sure have a lot of things going. The Reiner is urgently preparing the draw sheets for the Open finals… just awaiting the draw to get owners’ and riders’ pics…and those important draw positions. The Events team is hustling around getting the last details in place for the NRHA Annual Awards Banquet and Casino Night (gotta load those pretty jackets and saddles and all of the loot). The Show office staff is taking entries and getting ready for the second slate of ancillary classes (and those pretty overall champion buckle awards)….and awaiting the results of today’s Non Pro go round to get in line for the finals. Here in the world of Marketing, we’re gathering throw outs for the finals, editing fun video to come, snappin pics of the happenings, updating announcer scripts, updating folks on Facebook, distributing flyers about Corporate Partner events/promotions…and stealing a moment in front of fan with our four-legged friends in a nice, cool spot in the barn….
And just like Nemo….we just keep swimming. WATCH THE VIDEO
A FEW PICS FROM TUESDAY …..
The weather outside and the competition in the arena at the NRHA Derby has been smoldering hot. See how these Derby goers feel about the weather here in our neck of the woods. Seems to be a split decision. One thing is for sure, we wouldn’t be anywhere else.
WATCH THE VIDEO – So…How’s the weather?