Team Awards at Championship - Go to Championship Page
First Man/Man team wins $1,000
First Man/Woman team wins $1,000
First Woman/Woman team wins $1,000
$1000
Pat's Purse for a First Place Team Where One Member Has Not Won a
WCRT
Championship
Pat & Nita Browning and the Ride and Tie Association have both contributed
$500 each to the 2007 Pat's Purse Award. Pat's Purse is for any team
that has a member that has never won a championship. The purpose of this
award is to encourage experienced participants to recruit new people
to compete at the World Championships as a team.
The Corky Award, named for Skip Lightfoot's and Curt Riffle's Ride & Tie partner Corky, is a $300 cash award to the first pro-am team to finish if a pro-am team does not win the event. Read more about this award by clicking here.
Photo - Corky "at work" with Terri Milkovich during the April, 2004 Shine and Shine Only Ride & Tie near San Jose, California.
Photo Courtesy of Debbie Cabrera, Photo Finish Photography-pfp@debbiecabrera.net
2007 World Championship Ride & Tie and Invitational
Have you always wanted to attend the World Championship Ride & Tie (WCRT) or to do it again after a few years away? Well, this year is the perfect time! The WCRT and Invitational is being held in Cuneo Creek Horse Camp - Humboldt Redwood State Park, California. For race information: race week agenda & details, lodging, region activities and entry form please see the World Championship web page.
The Corky Pro-Am
Award will again be given to the top place pro-am team at this year's
World Championship Ride & Tie in Libby, MT. The $300 award was
created in 2003 by Curt Riffle and Skip Lightfoot (Corky's co-owners)
to honor the best pro-am team at the Championship (unless they finish
first and qualify for the Pat's Purse Award).
Curt and Skip hold the record for the most team miles (1283) and
the most races (28) in the history of the sport, and Corky holds
the record for the most number of races completed (40) and the second
most miles completed (1078) and number of years competing (12).
At 22, Corky is still active and expects to do one or two ride & tie
events this year.
"Skip, Corky, and I teamed almost exclusively during most of the
1990's," according to Curt. "Corky has always had such
a fun, Go-For-It attitude, especially at the start, and he still
does even into his senior years!" Curt and Skip thought of
the Corky Pro-Am Award to honor all of the new people that Corky
has helped bring into the sport. "We practice ride & tie
almost every weekend, and we usually ask Corky to take care of the
new people who may be joining us." "When it comes to races,
we are very selective these days who gets to use Corky. It is usually
one of us with a novice or amateur, but Corky definitely prefers
women to men. I think it is because they usually are better riders
and they certainly weigh less than Skip!"
Competitors
know Corky best because of the wide-track gait of his hind legs
when he is at a fast trot. "It kind of looks like
an ostrich. Everyone knows it is Corky once they see him go by them." "He
is a push-button ride & tie horse. When we want him to stop
so you can tie him to a tree, we just say "tie". Then
he gives you about 2 seconds to get into the saddle after you un-tie
him. But he has been know to hide behind trees when he gets tired
hoping we'll run past him."
Corky lives at Skip's Lightfoot Stables in San Jose, CA. He is in
a 40+ acre pasture all year long with about eight other ride & tie
and endurance Arabians. In addition to good quality hay twice a
day, his workout diet consists of oats, Purina Performance 200,
beet pulp, corn oil and rice bran. For the past four years he has
also been getting Platinum Performance as well as 99S (Glucosamine
Sulphate). Corky also has used a Supracor saddle pad for about the
last five years. During the week, he is used by Becky Hart to give
riding lessons to, you guessed it, girls. According to Curt, "One
time I arrived at the stables in the middle of a week day, and there
was Corky tied at the tack shed with pink bows in his mane. He actually
looked like he blushed when he saw me get out of my truck, and certainly
avoided eye contact!"
" We hope he'll be with us and be healthy for many years to come.
Who knows, he might even help a pro-am team win the Corky Award!"
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