Английская Википедия:Isabella Miller (barrel racer)

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Isabella Miller (28 January 1941 – 26 January 2007) was a Canadian rodeo cowgirl, rancher and horse trainer. She was the Canadian barrel racing Champion in 1960 and 1969 and was a 5-time winner of the Canadian All-Around women's title. She was inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2005.

Early life

Pearl Isabella Hamilton was born on 28 January 1941 in Alberta, Canada to Ruth (née Johnson) and William James Hamilton.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She grew up in DeWinton, Alberta, where her parents operated a ranch.Шаблон:Sfn Her father had been a bull riding champion in the 1920s and was a chuckwagon driver. Her grandparents manufactured Red River carts in Calgary.Шаблон:Sfn Hamilton began learning to ride when she was 2 years old.Шаблон:Sfn

Hamilton was one of the founders of the Canadian Girls' Barrel Racing Association, which formed in 1957 and was elected as the organization's president for 1959.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The goal of the association was to promote women's participation in rodeo and to be allowed to compete in the Calgary Stampede and other regular rodeo events.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn From 1958, they won the right to participate in the Stampede.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Competitive career

In 1960, Hamilton won the Canadian Barrel Racing Championship, having owned, trained, and ridden her own horse.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Around 1962, she married and began competing as Isabella Miller.Шаблон:Sfn She won the women's All-Around title five times — in 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1963, she was also named as Calgary's Athlete of the Year by the Calgary Sports Women's Association.Шаблон:Sfn Despite a vehicle accident in which her horse died during the 1969 season, Miller repeated that year as Canadian barrel racing champion.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Miller raised three children, Tyler, Bobbie June, and Billie Ruth Miller, as a single mother and to make ends meet, drove a school bus for 15 years.Шаблон:Sfn As she made little money from barrel racing, she also raised horses, trained them, and worked as a stunt rider in films. She continued to compete in barrel racing events into her 60s and was often ranked among Canada's the top ten women in the sport.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In the early 1980s, she became president of the barrel racing association for a second term, serving from 1981 to 1986.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 2002, she married Arnold Haraga, a former Canadian All-Around champion and steer wrestler and sculptor.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn After their marriage, the couple wintered at their ranch in Arizona.Шаблон:Sfn She was inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2005.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Death and legacy

In 2007, Haraga was injured in a fall from her horse on her ranch in Maricopa, Arizona. The fall caused an aneurysmШаблон:Sfn and Haraga died two days later on 26 January 2007.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Her children and grandchildren have continued the tradition of competing in rodeo events.Шаблон:Sfn

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