COUNTY LIFE
Love of horses spurs young jumper toward national title
By DANI BLACKBURN
Most typical 10-year-old girls do not spend their days dreaming of being the first 19-year-old to win a million dollar prize at the national horse jumping grand prix, but Bailey Robinson, fourth grader at Bowie Intermediate School, is not your typical girl.
For Bailey, riding horses has been important all of her short life. She was riding before she could walk, and competing by the age of three. Her parents also have always been in the horse business. Her dad, Mikal, is a horse trainer, and her mom, Wendy, competed as a child, but they say her love for horses is something she came across on her own.
“We love to watch her ride. We never pushed her to ride because we didn’t want our passion to be pushed on her, but she came into it on her own so it’s really special,” said Wendy. “It’s a family sport and we are doing it together.”
Mikal loves watching his daughter compete. “It’s great to see because she’s really intuitive and I love to watch it all happen. Things that happen for the first time she handles, and I will ask her how she knew to do whatever it was, and she will say she just knew.”
Bailey currently competes in hunter jumping competitions, usually two weekends every month. The young rider is headed to Kentucky in July to compete in the national competition for the United States Equestrian Federation, where almost 500 kids compete. Read the full feature in the weekend News.
The first official day of Spring arrives on March 20 and it’s time to dust off those winter doldrums and get your home brightened up and your yard prepared for the warming days of the new season when they arrive. Read The Bowie News Spring Home and Garden special section inside today’s edition.
Members of the Texas Economic Development Council announced the recipients of its annual Economic Excellence Recognition program for 2022 and the list 54 organizations included the Bowie Economic Development Corporation teams.
The awards were presented on Feb. 24 during the TEDC’s 2023 Legislative Conference in Austin. The Economic Excellence Recognition program provides recognition to economic development organizations that meet a desired threshold of professionalism.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council this week canceled its May election and moved its regular meeting to May 16 in order to give the oath of office to the incumbents taking their seats in the uncontested election.
Councilors met March 14 to address a brief agenda of business.
The Nocona Economic Development Corporation’s (Type A and B) request for $10,000 to the Nocona Youth Sports Association for the Little Dribbler’s Tournament was approved. City Secretary Revell Hardison said the funds will be used for directional signage and other similar items for the large number of people who attend the tournament.
The Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Association made a request for $1,600 from the hotel/motel tax funds to use for advertising its rodeo activities. Hardison said the association used to receive funds and have made the request to the hotel/motel tax committee in the last few years, but it was not approved.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
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