Experience the original “horsepower” beginning on Friday January 20, 2012 at the Events Center at National Western. Featuring the workhorses of yesteryear, the National Western Draft Horse Show offers the beauty, grandeur and sheer force of today’s draft horses. They pull beautiful carriages and wagons with elegance and power. If you’ve never seen the 4-Hitch
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Team penning competition is scheduled for January 9-10, 2012 in the Coliseum. If you’ve never seen this event, it’s a lot of fun to watch. A team of three riders is faced with a tight packed group of cattle, each with a number on their back. The object is to sort out the herd, cut
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo brings Stock Show fans a bit of Black history when the cowboys and cowgirls who are the top in their sport show you what they can do.  A one-night only event, the Heritage Rodeo of Champions will take place on January 16, 2012 in the Coliseum. See
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On January 5, 2012 at noon, the annual National Western Stock Show Parade will once again make it’s way from Union Station down 17th St. in Downtown Denver. This parade is a tradition in Denver that lets everyone know it’s “Stock Show Time” at the National Western Complex. Along the parade route you’ll see marching
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During the 2012 National Western you’ll once again find amazing entertainment. Sunday, January 8th there will be two opportunities to enjoy the Mexican Rodeo. This is an event filled with cultural pageantry, and features bull riders and bareback riders, trick roping, Mariachi music and the daring “Paso de la Muerte” or “Death Jump.”  If that’s
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On May 8th, get as close to a real horse drive as possible as the cowboys and cowgirls of Sombrero Ranches and their guests drive nearly 700 head of horses through the tiny town of Maybell on their way to the Craig ranch. Spend a little time in a town with a big personality! You
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The Rodeo is coming to town this summer, and there’s non-stop, rip-roarin’ cowboy action in store for rodeo fans. Be there July 12 – 17, 2011 at Estes Park’s annual Rooftop Rodeo, a PRCA sanctioned event which has been recognized as the best small rodeos in the nation and the top medium-sized rodeo in the
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Calling all Cowboys, and people who love the aura and authenticity of The West – come to Gunnison, Colorado and attend the “Granddaddy of Colorado Rodeos,” the 111th Annual Cattlemen’s Days on July 8-17, 2011. Cattlemen’s Days features a county fair, parade, carnival, live music and dancing, horse shows, cow pie bingo, horse races, and
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Experience horsepower like it was intended. Featuring the workhorses of yesteryear, the National Western Draft Horse Show offers the beauty, grandeur and sheer force of today’s draft horses. The 2011 National Western Draft Horse Show and Pull, January 21-23, features the North American Classic Series 6-Horse Hitch World Championships and offers more than $100,000 in
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One of the special events during the National Western Stock Show (NWSS) is the “Evening of Dancing Horses.” The Starfire Farm Quadrille Team has performed for many years, much to the delight of audiences who enjoy the formal dressage, freestyle reining, drill elements and many more equestrian disciplines. All of this is choreographed to music
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