Dillon, ridden by Annesa Self

The Scoti Flit Bar Rising Star Award, is given by WPRA member Lana Merrick in honor of her great NFR horse. Scoti Flit Bar and Merrick qualified for a pair of NFR’s in 1987 and 1989 before Merrick lost her great partner to a rare blood disease. The Rising Star Award is awarded to a first time WNFR qualifier to honor all the great ones that should never be forgotten.

In 2008 the WNFR qualifiers voted Annesa Self’s great gelding Dillion as the recipient of the Scoti Flit Bar Rising Star Award. Self describes the buckskin as onery but easy to train. Dillion qualified Self to the Texas Circuit Finals in his first year on the rodeo trail but a season ending injury in July of 2007 kept them from their first WNFR a year ago. Dillion came on strong following his six months recuperation from surgery to make the WNFR in 2008.