Rodeo Roundup: Nanton

and posted on October 21, 2019

Held July 19–20, the Nanton Ranch Rodeo also featured an art and gear sale, live music, plus additional Buck Wild ranch bronc riding. After the dust (then mud) cleared, the crew of the Outside Circle Ranch won first place, with Riley Regier, Tracey Shock, Titus Kropf and Jesse Kropf. Working Ranch Horse Winner was Geoff …

Cariboo Heritage Gathering

and posted on October 15, 2019

The Williams Lake Stampede played host to a full-day ranch rodeo, attracting 10 teams from the Cariboo-Chilcotin region and across the province. The cowboys competed in team doctoring, wild-cow milking, wild horse race, a top horse competition, team sorting and head and heel branding. Finishing in first place overall through the day’s events were Brock …

Where Legends Begin…

and posted on October 9, 2019

The advice for performers in vaudeville was always to “never follow kids or animal acts” because you will be upstaged. This is blatantly evident at any rodeo that has kid’s events, including the venerable Calgary Stampede — which now closes its multi-million-dollar rodeo not with bull riding, but with the kid’s Wild Pony Race. While …

School Daze

and posted on September 24, 2019

In late May, the good folks around Kispiox, B.C., held a very successful Rough Stock School. “We had a fabulous turn-out, and we got another eight rough stock entries in our rodeo because of it,” says Joy Allen, president of the Kispiox Rodeo Club. “Logan Hodson did a top-notch job of instructing, and he had …