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Barrel Racing

Ladies' barrel racing is the only ladies' event in professional rodeo. The contestant must cross the scoreline and run a clover-leaf pattern around three barrels and back across the scoreline to end time.

Either barrel, on the left or right, may be taken first, but a contestant will be disqualified for not following the clover leaf pattern.

A five second penalty will be added to the run time for each barrel knocked down, but a contestant may, from a riding position, hold a barrel from falling.

The time is generally taken with the use of an electric eye to the hundredths of a second.

Joan Perry, Secwepemc, barrel racing at the Williams Lake Stampede, 1971
Photograph by Fred Kobstead WL6-2-71

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