She also starred in the CBC series Heartland where she plays a barrel racer, Kit Bailey, with her horse Daisy.

Jamie Knapik, 7 and a niece of Janice Crotta, is a barrel racer.

Flint met his wife, Linda, who was a barrel racer, while he was touring.

He meets and falls in love with a young barrel racer, Kellie Kyle, and eventually they marry in 1984.

Over 2,000 barrel racers compete for nearly four million dollars annually.

He grew up near Houston in what he calls a "rodeo family": Dad was a calf roper; an aunt was a barrel racer.

Since then, she went on to become one of Florida's top female professional barrel racers and also returned to bodybuilding and modeling.

"She wants to be a barrel racer."

The same is true of calf ropers and barrel racers.

Mike is close with his cousin Liz Raymond, who also happens to be a barrel racer.