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Rylee and Jaida Woody are
like many sixth grade girls,
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they love horses, but unlike
most, they spend hours
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and hours riding and training their horses
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to compete in rodeos and
they are the third generation
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in their family to do so.
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Dolores sixth graders
Jaida and Rylee Woody
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share a common bond,
they’re fraternal twins.
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They also share a common
passion, rodeo competitions.
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And you might say their
passion is almost genetic,
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their grandmother, Kim
Russell, is a long time
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Montezuma County resident who
has bred and trained horses
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for 40 years.
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She and her brother
founded the Four States
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rodeo competitions held
in Montezuma County,
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and Russell put her granddaughters
on their first horses
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before they could walk.
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By the time they were three
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they were riding horses on their own.
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Today, each girl has two
horses, one for barrel racing
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the other for pole events.
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They also compete in goat roping
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and now they’ve set their
sights on qualifying
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for the junior national
rodeo finals this summer.
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Like any top athlete, that
means hours of training
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and hours on the road
traveling to rodeo competitions
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with the help, support, and
guidance of their grandmother
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but they say, the investment
in time is worth it.
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I love that how you can just go fast
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and meet new people and all that.
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I just like love being like
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it’s like being one with your horse
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till I make a good run
and like having horses
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you can care for and
have like all that stuff
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and like being able to meet
new people and all of that.
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The fastest time that Rylee
and Jaida have clocked
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on the barrels is 15.58
and 15.5 respectively.
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Well, they’re pretty evenly
matched at least so far,
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they admit that they each
try to best her sister.
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We are competitively like
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but we love each other when
we like win or something
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’cause we call ourselves the Woody team,
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so I just love like they
almost compete with her
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and having someone always by
your side and cheering you on
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and all that.
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They admit they fight
like any other siblings do
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but the tiffs are short-lived
and when it comes to rodeos
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they’re there to support the other.
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When we did goats, we would always like
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when we throw our hands up,
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we’d all fall down and
everybody’s like whoa,
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that’s the Woody twins.
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Rylee and Jaida will be
heading to competitions
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in Arizona and on the
front range this Spring
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in hopes of performing
well enough to gain points
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toward an invitation to the
junior national rodeo finals
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next Summer.
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To see the Woody twins in action,
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log onto the Montezuma
County Fairgrounds website
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and check out the events calendar.
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If there’s a barrel race
scheduled, more than likely,
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the Woody twins will be there.
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Thanks for watching this edition
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