Kassie Mowry’s Leading Horses of All-Time

Kassie Mowry is the all-time leading rider of barrel horses with more than $8.9 million to her name, and these are the horses that led her there.

It likely comes as no surprise that Mowry’s leading horse of all-time is her Women’s Professional Rodeo Association world champion Force The Goodbye. Yet, her story of success began long before “Jarvis” came into her life, which makes his rise to stardom even that much more impressive. Yet, Mowry had several mounts over the course of her career which changed the trajectory of her training career leading up to Jarvis and her first world title.

Mowry’s Start

EquiStat’s first reported tracking of earnings by Mowry was in 2000 when she’d earned only $6,450 on the year. For the next several years here earnings fluctuated reaching its max of $27,990 but in 2004 everything changed. In 2001, on her gelding Cashyerchexatthebar (“Bailey”), Mowry won the national collegiate championship for Western Texas College. She began training for the late Jud Little a few years later. When the Dublin, Texas, resident was introduced to EquiStat Lifetime Leading Breeder and her earnings records took off. She earned $53,295 in 2004 with the likes of horses such as full siblings 1998 sorrel mare Fire Waters Cash and 2000 bay mare Shebe Firin For Cash both owned by Little at the time and by Cash Not Credit out of the Fire Water Flit mare Moon Fire Flit.

In 2005, Mowry qualified for her first National Finals Rodeo and finished eighth in the average aboard Cashyerchexatthebar (1994 bay gelding, Harbor Super Chex x Had A Jo Dee x Oregon Bar), owned and bred by Holliday Horse, as well as the Little-owned Flick A Bullion (1995 bay mare, Bully Bullion x Another Flick Bug x Lady Bug’s Moon).

By 2006 she was in full swing in her futurity career and training for herself full time winning the Barrel Futurities of America World Championship Juvenile on her own Dashing Dillon. The 2003 sorrel gelding by Confederate Leader out of Pass The Belle, by Pass The Bars would serve to be an important horse in Mowry’s career introducing her to bloodlines she would later campaign to big paychecks. In 2007 she finished the year with $120,270 in EquiStat reported earnings due in large part to Dashing Dillon. Throughout his career Dashing Dillon would earn $115,082 in reported EquiStat earnings as Mowry’s No. 14 leading horse of all time.

The following year was a memorable one with Mowry claiming the BFA World Championship Super Stakes Slot Race for $100,000 aboard the Joe and Dee Lynn Braman owned mare Miss JB 055. Today, Miss JB 055 is still on Mowry’s list of highest-earning horses of all-time. In 2008 she finished the year with $251,627 from the help of Miss JB 055, Dashing Dillon, Speed Ta Fame and FM Radio — a horse she later purchased. Miss JB 055

In 2010, she rode the 2001 palomino stallion Chasin Firewater (Fire Water Flit x Has The Touch x Bugs Alive In 75) for the Bramans, he’d go on to $29,000 with Mowry, and in 2011 Mowry and Chasin Firewater finished second at Rodeo Houston. As a sire Chasin Firewater would become produce offspring who garnered more than $2.6 million.

The next most recognizable horse under Mowry’s training was in 2012 with the stallion who would go on to be an all-time leading sire of barrel horses, Epic Leader, whom Mowry owned in partnership with Karma Loftin. Bred by Kelly Yates and now owned by Felicity Martin the 2008 gray stallion by Confederate Leader out of Yates’ Firewater Fiesta by Fire Water Flit, became a cornerstone stallion in the barrel racing industry. Together, Mowry and Epic Leader won the Pacwest Futurity, the BBR World Finals, and more. While the stallion isn’t one of her highest-earning horses of all time he was perhaps one of the most influential as he sparked the legacy of many Epic Leader sired horses of which Mowry trained and campaigned. As a sire Epic Leader would go on to produce offspring who garnered more than $6.4 million, including Mowry’s second highest-earner CP He Will Be Epic.

In 2012 Mowry also won her first Old Fort Days Futurity aboard the Braman owned Missjbrunninwithfire. She finished 2012 with the most money she’d earned in a year up to that point with $348,025.

In 2014, Mowry began riding Fireweatermakemehappy for Martha Smith and the partnership would go on to produce more than $473,800 in earnings making “Happy” still one of Mowry’s all-time leading horses. Together, over the course of the next several years Mowry and Happy would win numerous championships in both futurity competion and later in the professional rodeo world. In 2017 the duo wo Rodeo Houston, placed at the Calgary Stampede and finished third in the aggregate at the Wrangler NFR.

Millionaire Mowry

Another boost in her career and horsepower came in 2019 with her own CP He Will Be Epic, the Kristen Williams owned Epic Guy, and the late Michael Boone owned Famous Ladies Man. That fall was the best year of her career up to that point thanks to one of the most talented groups of futurity horses she’s ever had. She accomplished a major milestone, reaching the elite $3 million mark in career earnings. Mowry finished the single year with $679,947 in EquiStat reported earnings.

Her highest earner of 2019, Famous Ladies Man (2015 gelding, Dash Ta Fame x Lady Perks x Dash For Perks), was hand-selected from breeders Busby Quarter Horses by her late fiancé Michael Boone. Despite “Emmitt’s” position at the top of the stats box, Mowry says the quirky little gelding was often overlooked. Boone started Emmitt as a 2-year-old and trained him before Mowry took over the reins to continue his patterning. The gelding’s willingness, ability to handle pressure and physical talent have been his strongest traits as he developed into the nation’s top futurity horse that year. Emmitt still sits in the top three of Mowry’s leading horses with $771,041.65.

CP He Will Be Epic aka “Will” finished 2019 with $81,698. He would go on to win more than $801,776 and be Mowry’s second highest-earning mount, plus in 2025 he helped Mowry secure her second WPRA world championship winning more than $88,000 at the NFR. Will is a 2015 gray gelding by Epic Leader out of Percilla by Dash Ta Fame.

Epic Guy, owned by Williams went on to earn $549,216 with Mowry. But in 2019 he dominated the futurities, earning more than $280,000 in EquiStat reported earnings with Mowry, including a Barrel Futurities of America World Championship and a Better Barrel Races OKC Futurity Championship. “King” easily transitioned into rodeos in 2020. He tied for the win at Belton, Texas, pro rodeo and added another rodeo performance win with a 13.724 in the second perf of RFD-TV’s The American Semifinals.

The then owned Isabella Quarter Horses Sand In My Socks got her start with Mowry and is her No. 9 leading horse of all time. Together, they picked up more than $262,000. “Sandi” is a graduate of Kassie Mowry’s futurity training program and won $100,000 in the very first run of her life as a 3-year-old to win the 2020 Barrel Futurities of America SuperStakes slot race under Mowry. The 2017 mare by BHR Frenchies Socks and out of JC Pick Six by Tres Seis. Sandi sold in 2022 to 70 Ranch Performance Horses and joined Stevi Hillman’s string for the 2022 NFR.

Then, in 2022 the barrel racing world would be introduced to the remarkable Force The Goodbye. Together Mowry and “Jarvis” won the BFA World Championships and finished 2022 with $318,470. Jarvis made his rodeo debut in Round Six of the 2022 NFR. He won his first rodeo checks at the 2023 NFR and his rodeo career took off. Mowry’s notorious for qualifying for the NFR on the minimum rodeo count and Jarvis helped her along the way. Then in 2024 the 2018 brown gelding by The Goodbye Lane out of VF Forcit First by Burrs First Down led Mowry to 10 days in Las Vegas picking up $295,526 plus the WPRA world championship.

In the early parts of 2026 Jarvis claimed three of the biggest stock show rodeo wins with Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo setting the arena record, Rodeo Houston and Rodeo Austin. As of March 2026, he’s collected more than $2 million in earnings making him Mowry’s leading mount of all time.