Our tour included lunch which was OK, nothing exceptional. They really enjoyed it and said the beach was much better than the "stick beach". They were taken on a road behind the restaurants and then allowed to drive on the beach. For about $30 my husband and sons rented one ATV for an hour. There are incessant vendors, several open air restaurants, and the ability to rent banana boats, ATVs and horses but not jet skis. My 3 year old called it the "stick beach". More disappointing was the beach which was littered with mulch like debris. The sand is very black and fine and my 2 boys were filthy in minutes.
Instead we were ferried back to Stone Island, we had to take a small motor boat to the Island then got in the back of a pickup with benches to go to the "beach". Catamarans, parasails, jet skis, beautiful white sand beach.I wish we had arranged a trip there! Deer Island, from what I saw is the place to visit, it reminded me a of a cruise ship private island. We went all the way out to Deer Island and then turned around. The cruise is nice, it is nice to see the city and lighthouse from the water. We took this tour in September during storm season so at other times the sea may be more calm. The boat ride was rough in fact my son lost his drink cup when the boat was rocking and it rolled off the seat right over the edge. Once on the boat we cruised the inlet and saw Stone Island but went out for about 2 hours before returning. Then we waited another 15 minutes at the marina to board the boat. There was a lot of waiting involved in this excursion, we had to wait 15 minutes past the designated time for the hotel pick up. I specifically asked if we would be able to rent jet skis on the Island and I was told yes. Instead we were booked on a tour with Yate Fiesta.
Since it was a holiday weekend the first choice of tour operators was not available (King David). "I've trained a lot of good ones, but she was a phenomenal horse and phenomenal to ride.I booked a harbor cruise and Stone Island tour through our hotel (Torre Mazatlan). Yates is eager to see if any of the babies become the same kind of horse as Firewater Fiesta. Firewater Fiesta is now a brood mare and temporarily residing at Royal Vista Southwest in Purcell, which specializes in equine reproductive services. Yates splits time between homes in Pueblo, Colo., and near Fort Worth, Texas. I still can, but I have other obligations that excite me now.”
I love training my colts and raising them. "It's not a mission anymore for me to make it to Vegas. "It's not the family oriented event like it used to be here. "The facility in Vegas is not up to par (for barrel racing),” she said. She prefers Oklahoma City over Las Vegas and no longer has the burning desire to qualify for the NFR. Yates, 49, has been competing in the futurity since it began. A horse sale is scheduled Saturday morning. The top 50 times during the week advance to the short round.
The short round of the $50,000 Barrel Futurities of America Future for 4-year-olds starts at 7 p.m. Saturday's competition begins at 2:30 p.m. Now in its 22 year, almost 1,000 riders from across the country - even Canada and Brazil - are competing through Saturday night at the Oklahoma City fairgrounds in barrel racing events with purses ranging from $1,500 to $50,000.Īdmission to the barrel races are $5 per person. When the NFR left Oklahoma City for Las Vegas, the Barrel Futurities of America attempted to fill the void, taking the former dates of the NFR in Oklahoma City. "She deserved to be a world champion,” Yates said. She is convinced Firewater Fiesta would have been one of the greatest barrel racing horses in history if not forced to quit competing at just 9 years old. Yates won more than $800,000 on Firewater Fiesta in rodeos, futurities and derbies in the mare's career. Firewater Fiesta returned to barrel racing in 2003, but injuries forced her into retirement. Yates finished as reserve champion that year and Firewater Fiesta had to miss the following year of competition. "It broke the heart of everyone who was watching on TV.” "It didn't just break my heart,” Yates recalled Wednesday at the Barrel Futurities of America competition on the Oklahoma City fairgrounds. It's the only time a father, son and daughter have qualified in the same year for the NFR.Īnd in 2001, Yates was about to win her first world title in barrel racing on her wonderful horse, Firewater Fiesta, when the mare fell in the first go-round at the NFR. In 1984, the final year the National Finals Rodeo was held at the Myriad in Oklahoma City, Yates competed on rodeo's biggest stage along with her father and brother, both team ropers.
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