Sherry Cervi’s world champion mount Stingray is Cory Petska’s next ace in the hole.
When Cory Petska wheeled around the corner in round three of the 2017 Bob Feist Invitational, a few people in the stands whispered to one another, “Man, Petska’s on another of Potters’ horses, and that one looks a lot like Stingray.” But by the fifth round, kids gathered around the stripping chute to yell, “STINGRAY!” as Petska rode out of the pen.
MP Meter My Hay, known as Stingray to anyone who even occasionally watches barrel racing, belongs to four-time world champion barrel racer Sherry Cervi, who also happens to be Petska’s wife. Cervi’s father, Mel Potter, raised the iconic palomino at their ranch in Marana, Ariz., and the now 15-year-old mare was Cervi’s ProRodeo mount for nine years. In her career, Stingray carried Cervi to the 2010 and 2013 WPRA world titles, set the previous arena record of 13.49 seconds at Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack, was voted by the top 15 barrel racers as the Horse with the Most Heart in 2013 and has been a big part of Cervi’s record-setting $3.2 million ProRodeo earnings.
This story is from the August 2017 edition of Spin to Win Rodeo.
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