Any grade horses in the nfr?

Random question: Has there ever recently been any unregistered horses compete in the nfr? Specifically barrel racing? Very interested and would love to know! It'd be amazing if there was. It seems like there is no hope for those horses with no papers.

Molly Powell's horse "Pecan" was Welsh/TB cross

Collette Bair went on Suak. He was bred to be a barrel horse but his mom had no papers. Of course she-Sugar Babe- went to the nfr and his dad Joak went to the nfr so no surprise that Suak was great. That is two more for you-SugarBabe and Suak


Quoted from another forum =3

That is a good question. I seriously doubt it though, if a rider has enough money to haul to all of the rodeos and make it to the NFR, they probably aren't going to be riding a grade.

I respectfully disagree here. I have four horses.. three registered and one grade but if I were forced right now to go to a horse show and could only bring one it would be my grade as he's got the best mind out of all of them. He just works for me best.