Tangos Blonde Hope aka "Blondie" is the 2014 Amateur Poles and Sr. Pole Bending World Champion, 2015 Congress Sr. Poles and Sweepstakes Pole Champion, 2016 AQHA Sr. Pole Bending Champion, 2016 Congress Pole Bending Sweepstakes Champion, 2017 AQHA Sr. Pole Bending Champion, 2015 AQHA Reserve Sr. Pole Champion, and 2014 Congress Reserve Sr. Pole Champion. Blondie’s Total LTE, earned in only four years, now exceed $40,000.

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Blondie successfully defended her 2016 AQHA Sr. Poles World Champion title by winning the 2017 AQHA SR. Poles Champion title.  In 2016 Blondie became the only other horse in twenty years to win back-to-back Pole Bending Sweepstakes Championship titles.  Blondie, ridden by Lane Smith, once again won two of the three rounds and won the average with a time of 38.886, a full .5 second ahead of her competition.  In Blondie's last 24 major competitions she has turned in twenty 19 second pole runs. All twenty-four of Blondie's runs were clean making her perhaps the most consistent performer in pole bending history.  

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Blondie was inducted into the National Pole Bending Hall of Fame in 2018.  

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