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[continue reading...]

Of the thousands of junior market animals that compete at the National Western Stock Show each year, only 90 of the very best are at the exciting Auction of Junior Livestock Champions held January 20, 2012 in the Beef Palace Auction Arena. For Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion animals, the auction is televised live[continue reading...]

The National Western Mule and Donkey Show runs January 20-22, 2012 along with the National Western Draft Horse Show. The show is run according to the rules of the North American Saddle Mule Association, and includes both halter and performance classes drawing more than 300 entries. The event will be held in the Event Center[continue reading...]

Designed to thrill even the most discriminating horse enthusiast, An Evening of Dancing Horses® is packed full of formal dressage, freestyle reining, drill elements and plenty more equestrian disciplines. Plus, it’s all choreographed to the music of the Denver Brass. The popular National Western attraction features world-class horses, equestrians and musicians. This event will be[continue reading...]

This horse and rider competition has been called the “wine and roses event” of the National Western. The best riders and top horses from across North America come to compete for a total purse of over $40,000. The Grand Prix (pronounced “gron-pree”) is a symphony of grace and teamwork between the horse and its rider.[continue reading...]

Mutton Bustin’ at the Stadium Arena is a fun and rowdy game for 5 to 7-year-old boys and girls under 55 pounds. The event involves the kids riding a sheep (hanging on tight) from a bucking chute and into the arena. Like professional rodeo events, time and score count, but all of these aspiring cowboys[continue reading...]

The NWSS Wild West Show takes you back to the days of Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane – a show like the original Buffalo Bill shows of days gone by. You can expect to see nonstop action including a six-horse stagecoach holdup, dance hall girls and a moving tribute to the American Indian.[continue reading...]

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[continue reading...]

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[continue reading...]

There are dogs and then there are Super Dogs! On January 16th & 17th – Come see these fast and fun loving canines do amazing tricks, aerial stunts and comedy antics for the crowds. Super Dogs is one of the National Western’s most popular events. “The cast, made up of 20 dogs, thrills audiences with[continue reading...]