Team 707 Success Stories

WPRA All-Around World Champion is 100% Navajo, 100% winner

Native American Debbie Robbins has been roping since she was about six years old. Growing up in Dilcon, Ariz., riding alongside her dad and cousins, she picked up — and perfected — the skill that would one day be her life. Fast-forward to 2007, when her hard work really paid off and Debbie cinched the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) All-Around World Champion title. Anyone who follows the sport might've seen it coming: She'd already earned 2006 WPRA All-Around Reserve Champion (this just coming off a broken ankle) and was also the 2002 WPRA Rookie of the Year!

"Being a WPRA winner is partly because I have sound, healthy horses," she says, "and that's because of Formula 707."

1.8 seconds - "Fastest I ever roped!"

Asked about one of her most memorable runs, Debbie does a mental rundown of all the rodeos — Indian and otherwise — that she's competed in, and flashes back a couple years to her brilliant breakaway performance at "K-town" (Kayenta, Ariz.). Her brother, Daniel, would be pushing the critter — a "very fast calf" — from the chute. Debbie knew she needed to beat him out, but for that she'd have to crowd the barrier and risk a costly 10-second penalty. It happened so quickly — just 1.8 seconds 'til she had him in her lariat — that Debbie says she even surprised herself a bit.

"My horses were getting worn down"

But all of the travel/trailer time between rodeos began to take a toll on her animals, Debbie recalls one example: Speedy, a nine-year-old mare, performed at four rodeos in rapid succession. For the first two she ran well, but the third and fourth she seemed "heavy" and "just didn't have the energy." Some good friends, Jeff and Claudia Lors, also rodeo competitors, suggested Debbie give Formula 707 products a try. She confirms the noticeable change. "I soon saw such a marked difference in the recovery time of my roping horses. The bend and flex they now have I attribute to Formula 707."

Head or heels, Formula 707 gives the competitive edge

Quizzed about her preference, Debbie admits she'd rather head than heel.

"I have a higher percentage of catches when heading; heeling is harder." She's been on the circuit since 1989 and has no shortage of partners for the team roping event. Rounding out her stable of four-legged partners are 13-year-old Mouse and nine-year-old Spencer, both head horses. To keep her string in top shape, she uses Formula 707 Daily Essentials™, Biostride™ for hooves and Restore™ to balance electrolytes and replace minerals lost from sweating in the hot Arizona summers. The result? "I've been using 707 products for a couple of years now," she says. "With it, my horses give me more than 100%. It's just good stuff."

Winning Glo-N-Go leads to a winning season

Although Lorie Diodosio grew up in Pueblo, CO, on weekends she would go with her parents to their family farm outside of Fowler.

“It was basically like having a double life,” she joked.

Having a country connection gave her an early start in barrel racing and showing horses, and when asked how long she’d been at it, she said, “Before I can even remember.” But even at a young age, Diodosio said, “I just knew I liked barrel racing more.”

Today, Lorie lives outside of Fowler with her husband Mike. She continues to concentrate on her barrel racing and recently found something to give her and her horse a bit of an edge.

Here’s how she tells the story. “My husband won some Formula 707 Glo-N-Go™ at the CPRA finals, and. since it was near the end of the season we didn’t give it to his horse, but saved it for my horse at the start of the next season,” said Lorie.

Her barrel futurity horse, Got Grace, was just starting to tour, and according to Diodosio, was nervous and high-strung. But, she notes, this is a very high-stress time in a young horse’s life. Hauling and leaving home for the first time, sometimes for weeks at a time, can make it very hard for a horse to keep weight on, and keep positive energy up, Diodosio said, but Glo-N-Go helped lay those worries to rest for Got Grace.

That season, Got Grace took the barrel-racing scene by storm.

“We were in the money at the Speedhorse Gold Cup Futurity, High Plains and Cornhusker Futurity, and won the Speedhorse Silver Cup Futurity, winning not only the average, but also the second go.” Total winnings at the Speedhorse Silver Cup: $29,000.

“Glo-n-Go definitely made a difference,” she said.

All together, Mike and Lorie have fourteen horses, including racing horses, brood mares and colts. As someone who’s been racing since before she can remember, Lorie has tried a number of supplements, but she trusts and uses Formula 707 Glo-N-Go because, “I know that it does really work.” 

Come spring, Lorie will be riding a different horse, Sly Fortune, out to the races. But you can bet Glo-n-Go will be on his menu.