Women’s Contestant Nominees
ABOUT GINNY PAT SMITH FLIPPIN
Bio
1967-1970 State all around champion CTHSA
1970 Gold medal winner National Youth Horse Congress
1974-1979 PRCA rodeo secretary Bradford Ivy
1970 All around winner Houston Livestock Show
1986 NFR Qualifier, go round winner, average 3rd
1986 Vest dressed at NFR
1986 Lake Charles, La, Livermore, Angels Camp, Santa Maria Ca.
7X Texas Circuit Qualifier
1981-1988 Texas Circuit finals director
ABOUT CATHY DENNISON FELTS
Record holder for the youngest competitor to win money at the Houston Astrodome.
Split 2nd & 3rd in the 1st go round of the GRA barrel race in 1970 at the age of 9.
• Resigned from the GRA association in the spring of 1970 and joined the Texas Barrel
Racing Association(TBRA)
• Top 20 in TBRA from 1970 to 1983
• TBRA Champion 1972 and 1974
• TBRA Reserve Champion 1973 and 1975
• Southwestern Rodeo Association (SRA) Barrel Racing Champion 1970, 1971 and 1972
• SRA evolved into the Texas Rodeo Association (TRA) Top 10 barrel racer in this
association in 1973
All these accomplishments were achieved riding King Nassau, who was an own son of
King P234. King Nassau died in 1976 at the age of 16.
• 1984 Texas Barrel Racing Futurity finished 3rd in the Average riding Bays Toy Jet (TJ)
• 1984 Champion of Champions Futurity Reserve Champion
• 1987 National Finals Rodeo qualifier
• 1987 won 6th in the average of the NFR
• 1987 Texas Circuit Reserve Champion
• 1987 Texas Circuit Finals Champion
• 1988 finished in the top 20 of the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association
• 1988 Texas Circuit Finals qualifier
• 1988 Alternate for the US Olympic Team at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta
• 1990 was one of eight barrel racing exhibitors for the Rodeo/Grand Ole Opry gala held
for the dignitaries from 8 countries represented at the Economic Summit of
Industrialized Nations at the Astrodomain Complex in Houston Texas hosted by the
president of the United States, George W. Bush Sr.
• 1988 – 1990 served as WPRA Texas Circuit Director
• 2017 inducted into the South Central Texas Rodeo Ring of Honor
ABOUT KAPPY ALLEN
Kathryn “Kappy Allen” was raised on a horse by her Texas Rodeo Hall of Fame father, Grady Allen. She is a four-time National Finals Rodeo Qualifier, three-time Texas Circuit Finals Qualifier, two -time National Circuit Finals Qualifier and the Salt Lake City Cultural Olympics Gold Medalist. In 2000 Kappy won the National Finals Barrel racing average and was crowned the WPRA World Champion Barrel Racer aboard her main mount, “Risky Chris”. “Chris” was a sorrel gelding known for his smooth style and consistent runs. The dynamic duo returned in 2001 to win the National Finals Barrel Racing Average – again being the fastest on ten runs. In all four times to the National Finals Rodeo, Kappy and Chris never hit a barrel.
Allen has been featured in many articles as the superwoman of barrel racing as most of her pro rodeo accomplishments were won while she was raising her two young boys and working as a full-time attorney in Austin, Texas. It was Allen’s love of the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association and her expertise in the legal field that restored the members of the WPRA their right to vote for their President.
Kappy has won such prestigious rodeos as Austin, Denver, Reno, San Angelo, Fort Madison, Sikeston, Calgary, and many others. One of her most memorable wins was before her first World Championship while competing at Salinas, California. Kappy was feeling overwhelmed and underqualified to be there amongst the greatest barrel racers in the world. She called her daddy, Grady, for some fatherly advice. He reminded her of what she and her horse were capable of and why she was there. She consequently won that rodeo – and the rest, as they say, is history.
Kappy Allen is a Hall of Fame Cowgirl – in and out of the arena.
