Futurity trainer Craig Brooks has a different way of utilizing the popular Kathy James gag bit by raising it up in the horse’s mouth and tightening the curb to hold up a horse that comes back hard around a barrel.
This Guys Flying started as a flighty 3-year-old. Barrel futurity trainer Craig Brooks discusses the progression of building “Tucker” into a confident winner his 4-year-old futurity year.
February 28, 2019, Fort Worth, Texas, Cowtown Coliseum — For the second consecutive year, Craig Brooks and Grandiose Guy outran the competition in Performance Two of RFD-TV’s The American Semifinals. The Eastanolle, Georgia, horse trainer and 2013 gelding by BHR Frenchies Socks and out of For The Fame by Dash Ta Fame clocked a 14.104 in a run Brooks says got a little dicey. “He actually squeezed me a little on the second and third, so I was just tickled to get around them, but I guess it was fast,” Brooks chuckled. “He got a little by his first, but that’s typically how he’ll do sometimes, but he comes back so hard.” In 2018, Brooks and the young “Mater” made it all the way to AT&T Stadium and finished seventh in the long round. Brooks has adopted a go-with-the-flow attitude for this year. “I just roll with it and try not…
Craig Brooks and Grandiose Guy topped the field at the second performance of RFD-TV’s The American Semifinals presented by Dish in Fort Worth, Texas, to win the round and move into second place overall.
After breaking his ankle when a horse fell down with him, futurity trainer Craig Brooks got accustomed to life on the couch for a few weeks.
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