Sammy Thurman Brackenbury was born Sammy Lenore on a ranch on the Big Sandy Wash near Wikieup, Arizona. The family moved around when she was a child. Her father, Sam Fancher, was a rodeo competitor in many events.[2]
[3] She learned from her father how to ride horses, rope calves, and many other rodeo events. She even chased mustangs in the deserts. Once, at the Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA) Santa Maria Rodeo, when Brackenberry was registered to compete at barrel racing and her father was registered to compete in team roping, his partner did not show up. Fancher got permission from the RCA for his daughter to rope instead. Fancher was anxious but Brackenberry handled it like it expert. Brackenberry also roped at California Rodeo Salinas, placed second, and was one of the first women there too.[1]
CareerEdit
She competed in professional rodeo in many events, but her main event was barrel racing. She also used her rodeo skills in the film business, for example, by falling off horses for a movie stunt.[1]
In addition to being a hall of fame barrel racer, she is also an American World Barrel Racing Champion. She qualified for 11 National Finals Rodeos (NFR). In December 1965, she won the world barrel racing championship at the NFR in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[4]
SummaryEdit
Brackenbury has five go-round wins from 1960 through 1968. She placed in twelve consecutive go-rounds (six per year) in her first two NFRs in Scottsdale and Santa Maria in 1960 and 1961. In 1960, she tied for the NFR Average championship in the Girl's Rodeo Association (GRA) with another world champion, Jane Mayo. The next year, 1964, she became the reserve NFR Average champ and the Reserve World Champion, with a career best of $7,042 season earnings. She finished inside the top five of the GRA World Standings five times. The climax of her career was winning the World Barrel Racing Championship in 1965.[3]
^ abcd"Sammy Thurman Brackenbury". ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^"American Cowboy". October–November 2004. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^ abcd"Sammy Thurman Brackenbury". Sammy Thurman Brackenbury to be Enshrined in ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
^2021 WPRA NFR Media Guide | Barrel Racing World Champions 1948 - 2020, 1965 World Champion, p. 7.
^"Sammy Thurman Brackenbury | Rodeo Hall of Fame". National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
BibliographyEdit
2021 WPRA NFR Media Guide | Barrel Racing World Champions 1948 - 2020. Women's Professional Rodeo Association. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
External linksEdit
Women's Professional Rodeo Association
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
National Finals Rodeo
August 26, 2023
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