Two of our judges checking out the course. Denise Horstman on Ace and Kristi Hart riding Cassidy.
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Teeter Totter with Ellen Waukon, the North Central Region's Representative to the Extreme Cowboy Association, and her mare Jewel.
Denise Horstman and her gelding Ace working the water like a champ.
From left to right: Craig Cameron founder of Extreme Cowboy Racing, Chris Vinson Competitor EXCA, Bill Hull EXCA President and Kristi Hart Norht Central Region EXCA Judge.
Above taken at the Madison Horse Fair April 17, 2009
March 6, 2009
Extreme Cowboy Association (EXCA) comes to the North Central Region NCR (MN, WI and IA).
For those who aren’t familiar with this sport. The Extreme Cowboy Race is a multi-faceted equestrian sport that requires the contestants to demonstrate horsemanship and then speed over a course of obstacles. Competitions are sometimes televised on RFD-TV. Check the RFD-TV schedule if you would like to see an event.
Srba Farm has changed it's name and moved. Our new name is 3S-RANCH and our new address is N8808 CTY RD O still in Boyceville a mile from the old farm.
Ellen Waukon has been named as the North Central Region Advisory Board Member of the Extreme Cowboy Association (EXCA). The Advisory Board member represents EXCA for this region and is available to help those who want to join as individuals, clubs and to promote the growth of the Extreme Cowboy Association in MN, WI and IA.
EXCA has several levels, young guns 6-11, youth 12-17, non-pro 12 & Over, Pro 12 & Over and Ride Smart (55 and older).
We will be scheduling an open house for anyone who is interested in being a participant, setting up a course or becoming a certified judge under the North Central Region. If you would like to be on our mailing list please send your information and what subjects you are interested in to ncrextremecowboy@gmail.com.
Join as an amateur or as a pro, accumulate points for state championships, regional championships or national championships or just have fun competing, while increasing you and your horses skills.
03/04/09 More wonderful news. We've been invited to go to the Madison Horse Fair and help man Craig Cameron's Booth. For those of you who plan on going down to Madison please come by and visit with us, we'll be looking for you!!
02/26/09 We recieved another email from Bill Hull explaining that the Board of Directors has approved Ellen Waukon to be on the Board of Advisors for the EXCA. Congratulations Ellen!!!
02/26/09 Along with the Advisory Board approval is the fact that SRBA Farm has been named the North Central Region Representative to EXCA. WooooHoooo!!!
02/19/09 Email from Bill Hull EXCA director and coordinator for Craig Cameron.
Hi Chris, After replying to Ellen's email, I checked out your website. Very impressive! Your description of your preparation for Equifest and the story about your experience is very interesting and well written. It was truly my pleasure to have had the opportunity to meet you and watch you ride. One of the many rewards of traveling the way Craig and I do is having the opportunity to meet folks like you and Ellen. I look forward to working with you and Ellen as we put an EXCA event together at SRBA! Best Regards,Bill
Hello everyone,
We are home from Kansas!!! It's great to be back. We got in early Monday morning the 16th at 2:30am. I want to give a special thank you to Ellen Waukon, Denise Horstman and Raven Flores Frank's personal Barn Babes!! We love you women!!!!!!!!!!
We all had a wonderful time and even Frank enjoyed the trip, except for the long trailer ride.
We did not place in the finals although we did stay and watch them. We will be having a get together in Woodville at the Cubby Hole Restaurant and Lounge owned by one of my sponsors Ben Jung, we’ll show my audition video that got me into the race and also my run at the Expo in Kansas so that everyone can see what it was like.
We met with Craig Cameron before the race to walk through the pattern on foot, the horses were not allowed in the arena before hand, no practicing the obstacles. The pattern was: walk in to the start line at the north end of the arena, then to pick up a right lead in a “Free Ride” circling the arena at a controlled run followed by three apprx 2 foot jumps and then to a bridge surrounded by boxes of flowers followed by going into a pen with a mini donkey and pulling a playing card taped to a pipe panel and proceeding to a side pass with a pole under the horses belly, opening a mailbox depositing the card and side passing back out again, go to a rectangular swimming pool, sans water, filled with rubber tub toys and two life like looking snakes about 3 feet long. The pool was surrounded by straw bales with one way in and one way out. Next was the stock tank pull the 100 gallon tank was placed on it’s side and you were to dally up and pull it over and drag it between two cones. Canter circles around cones both leads correctly followed by running towards a pole back up course, two poles making an alley with a 90 degree turn that you must back through. Then another jump approx 3 feet tall which was made out of some type of plastic and looked like two culverts with a small narrow bridge over it connecting the two then on to another free ride on the left lead controlled and with speed the full circle of the arena and then load your horse into a stock type trailer shut the door and run on foot to the time line in the middle of the arena.
The runs were anywhere from 3 ½ to 7 minutes long. I came in at just under 5 minutes.
Refusals of the obstacles were granted no points, trying, depending on the outcome, were granted something at the judges discretion and onwards up to 10 points for perfection. There were two judges and they walked the arena to every obstacle while you were competing.
Each obstacle was rated, horsemanship was the most important factor with time being the least important factor. The obstacles were heavily geared to reining precision and were a lot of fun!
The final course was changed and the 10 finalist followed this pattern:
Walk in, left canter lead into a Free Ride, once around the arena fully 3 roll backs, move to a cone with a golf ball on it, smallest style of cones, then pick ball up and move to next cone and replace it, come around to the bridge while shaking out your rope and roping a steer head placed two bales high, throw the rope when complete and go jump three 2 foot jumps then head around to the rail on the long end of the lope off to the dragging obstacle which was a pallet with a cooler with wheels on it sitting on the pallet and on top of the cooler was a orange cone, the cowboy must dallying the rope and perform a controlled drag without the wheeled cooler rolling off the pallet on to a box made out of poles on the ground and four spins to each side and after that walk to a orange cone and dismount and throw 3 bales will your horse is ground tied run half of the arena and stop, stand on your horse and hit a bucket suspended from the ceiling with your hand, proceed ¼ way around the arena and dismount strip off your tack remount bareback and free ride 1 ½ times around the arena dismount lead your horse while you both jump over the 3 jumps and cross the finish line.
As far as the facilities went this Expo was much smaller that what we are used to in the Twin Cities or even Madison. They were very security conscious which allowed me to relax about leaving Frank over night, they locked the facility down and had security guards posted. During the day the heat was on in the barn for human comfort and the horses tended to get a little warm. We had access to an indoor arena, none outdoors, but were allowed to ride where ever we wanted I spent a lot of time riding around the parking lot through traffic etc. The weather was great 40’s and 50’s during the day and high 20’s low 30’s in the evening.
The people in general in Kansas were very friendly and helpful and open to talking even though they didn’t know you they were also very courteous. As for Craig Cameron and his staff they were happy to have us come down for the competition. When I had completed my run Craig spoke with me for a couple minutes and thanked me coming all the way from WI, he invited me to participate again and was very cordial, he did like the fact that I was having such a good time and it showed. The audience was very into my ride with clapping, hollering and cheering. It was a wonderful experience and I do plan on competing again, the next time I may decide to compete on one of the out door courses.
We got home on Sunday night, Monday morning about 2:30am. It took about 15 hours to make the trip one way. So I guess that’s it for now I will post this on the website as well.
Thank you everyone for all your help making this trip come true!!
Remember to look for the date of the presentation I’ll be making in Woodville at the Cubby Hole.
Chris Chapman CC Rider and Frank
02/12/09 2:30pm Vet inspection Frank was a very good boy for the doctor.
02/12/09 2:30pm Hey Toto are we finally in Kansas!!! Can I finally come out of the trailer!!???
02/12/09 5pm Chris and Frank on their first ride after arriving at the barn. Frank feels good!!
02/12/09 7 am in Syndey Kansas, Reverand of the cowboy church heading to Texas for his daughters 2nd endurance race bought Chris and the barn babes breakfast!! Thanks REV!!!
02/12/09 3:30pm Chris and the Barn Babes are really tired and silly but have a1rrived safe and happy!
02/12/09 4pm I'm so tired could we just go eat now!!!!!
January 8, 2009
IT'S OFFICIAL!! I received the invitation to compete in Craig Cameron's Extreme Cowboy Race today, the 8th, I'm so excited. I want to thank my life coach Ellen Waukon for all her support and insight to help Frank and me get to the "big time." Now comes the organization and financial planning for the trip. We'll be leaving the farm on Febuary 11th and coming home on the 16th. We still need help with donations to get us there so please remember to send whatever you can afford. Thanks everyone for your belief in Frank and me. CC Rider
November 16, 2009 Shoot video for cowboy race application
The day began with a beautiful, light, fluffy snow with temperatures around 30 and a light wind. I had already decided it didn't matter what the weather was going to be like Frank and I were going to be movie stars!!!! My friend, and very first sponsor, Raven Flores along with my business partner Ellen Waukon arrived at the farm at 10am to begin shooting our video.
I tacked Frank up and took him outside to warm him up and began working through the obstacles we have. We trotted through our multiple tire obstacle, backed over a tarp, trotted over the bridge and the tractor tire then through the kiddy pool filled with rocks. We moved inside of the arena to drag a log and wear a tarp. Frank didn't take the movie star business very seriously, he just did his job as usual. I on the other hand waved to the camera and tried to act humble!
After a short break for lunch and to discuss what we wanted to shoot next we walked over to our ravine and took clips of Frank going up and down hills at varying speeds, walking off the trail into the bushes and in general proving once again Frank is just doing his job. We then decided to head for the creek and other obstacles.
The ladies jumped into the truck and Frank and I rode over to the neighbors cattle pasture and proceeded to show off our water crossings, log climbing, log jumping and walking and running up and down very steep hills. In between the obstacles Frank cantered alongside the truck and I waved to the camera and loped along. We then decided Frank had shown enough of his stuff for the day and we went home to take a look at the video.
We are currently waiting to hear from Craig Cameron whether or not Frank and I will be going to KS in Feb 09.
Donations and help to get us to Kansas is greatly appreciated plesae email or call with specifics. Thank you in advance for any help you can give!! CC Rider
The final video will be available by December 1st. We'll post it on this website and Ride Naked Productions will also allow viewing on Raven's website and face page.
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Two of our judges checking out the course. Denise Horstman on Ace and Kristi Hart riding Cassidy. 
Moguls
Teeter Totter with Ellen Waukon, the North Central Region's Representative to the Extreme Cowboy Association, and her mare Jewel.
Denise Horstman and her gelding Ace working the water like a champ.
From left to right: Craig Cameron founder of Extreme Cowboy Racing, Chris Vinson Competitor EXCA, Bill Hull EXCA President and Kristi Hart Norht Central Region EXCA Judge.
02/12/09 2:30pm Vet inspection Frank was a very good boy for the doctor. 
02/12/09 2:30pm Hey Toto are we finally in Kansas!!! Can I finally come out of the trailer!!??? 
02/12/09 5pm Chris and Frank on their first ride after arriving at the barn. Frank feels good!!
02/12/09 7 am in Syndey Kansas, Reverand of the cowboy church heading to Texas for his daughters 2nd endurance race bought Chris and the barn babes breakfast!! Thanks REV!!!
02/12/09 3:30pm Chris and the Barn Babes are really tired and silly but have a1rrived safe and happy! 
02/12/09 4pm I'm so tired could we just go eat now!!!!!