Deceased Reference Sire Only
2001 WPRA Divisional Tour Badlands Champion
2001 WPRA Divisional Tour Finalist, Ft Worth, TX placing 2nd in the first go
2001 SDRA Finalist
2001 NRCA Finalist
2001 Bold Heart Futurity Derby Reserve Champion
1995 World Qualifier
1995 AQHA Congress Amateur Barrel Racing Champion
Gone but not forgotten!
Nonstop Bubblin has not only won over $85,000
in his life, but he did it through the race track, futurities, derbies,
AQHA, NBHA, 4-D, amateur and pro rodeos.. he showed he could win at any
level..
We bought him as a stud for our ranch. We
needed something with more run. I had only seen him run in a video and
from the word of a friend, Kelly Conrado. When I went to get him in
Tennessee from Ashlie York, I rode him for the first time. Breathtaking is
all I can say. I stopped at a DT in SD on the way home from TN and
thought I would try him out. I was so nervous, being in a small crowded
barn with a stud. Bubba out ran everyone by a half second. I knew then
that he was good but it didn't take long to see and realize how special he
was. Ashlie told me how to handle him. Whether it was running him or
breeding him what worked and what didn't and what she felt in her heart.
She knew him very well and loved him dearly. He was everything any girl
could ever want in a horse. He was a jewel to haul. I usually put an
electric fence up by my trailer and there he stayed. My son Jade (who was
6 then) went with me rodeoing a lot . He likes me to tell about
Bubba nuzzling on the door handle to the living quarters every morning
to tell me he was ready to eat. Anyone that ever knew him loved
him . Nonstop Bubblin is a horse people won't forget. He looked like a
calf horse but ran like the race horse he was. Bubba loved running
barrels. I never worried about going to first.. he just took me to the
pocket. He was very powerful. He had heart which I think lacks in some
barrel horses. He would never quit you. You know when you came out of an
arena, he gave it all he had.. if we made a mistake it was my mistake not
his. I just needed to figure out what I was doing wrong. It took time, but
soon we were a pair. He placed at some big rodeos such as El Paso, Odessa,
Salt Lake City.
In our program we crossed him with cow
bloodlines and run.. It didn't seem to matter. They all wanted to work. He
put a unique personality on them, sometimes they had to find the right
owner, that appreciated some of the quirks and worked with them and if
they did they had a future champion. We use them on the ranch, rope and
run barrels on them.
I lost Bubba way too soon, our hearts
broke into a million pieces when he passed. But I promised him that he
would live on and make his mark in the world and that has been my goal. He
has touched the lives of many people along the way. If you see Nonstop
Bubblin somewhere in the pedigree, stop and take another look, it will be
a great one. Just give them a chance. I had a chance to put him in the
PESI PROGRAM.. I not only did it for Bubba but for our customers.. there
are a lot of his get out there winning. And I do want them in the
spotlight.
