I'm Jody Sheffield and tonight I'll be running my 6 year old mare Skip the Finances...better known as Zoey.  I started on Zoey when she was 4 and she just craved running barrels.  Whether she is running barrels, roping or climbing a mountain Zoey puts everything she has into it, she loves having a job!  On Easter in 2009 at the Xtreme Barrel Race Zoey stumbled coming up the alley.  After a diagnosis it was determined she had pulled the ligament that holds her pelvis to her spine.  I then decided to send her to Shirley Ankrum for the summer so she could be treated with Acuscope and Myoscope therapy, she couldn't have been in better hands!  Slowly last winter I brought her back and started running her in February.  10 months after her injury she came back right where she left off and we've been winning ever since!  Her first year of running at pro rodeos she won Tooele and Afton and also got me back to the short round in Reno.  Reno was a special time for us because the day of the short round was also the anniversary of the day my brother in law, Joe Ben Sheffield, passed away.  Joe put the first rides on Zoey and I will be forever grateful for his faith in her.  He always said "they don't even know what's coming."  I'm so blessed to have Zoey come along when my great horse Kat was needing a backup.  From the day I first met my husband Jesse he said "I have this horse...and she's gonna be awesome."  Zoey was only 2 at the time but he was right, Zoey is amazing and I'm so grateful for her and to my husband for giving us a chance!