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Viva Las Vegas! Recently, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and Las Vegas Events (LVE) announced a contract extension to keep to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) presented by Teton Ridge in the fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. In a statement from the PRCA, PRCA CEO Tom Glause explained, “This extension will benefit all aspects...

The 2022 Wrangler National Finals Breakaway Roping will take place at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nov. 29-30. With a record-setting amount of professional rodeos including Breakaway Roping during the 2022 season, the stakes and payouts were higher than ever- and the finals will be no exception. The Top 15 breakaway ropers will compete for...

This isn’t her first rodeo, but it’s the first one she put on!  Casera Silva, a newly high school graduate from Kaua’i, decided to create and put on her own rodeo after rodeoing herself for 13 years. Her school required seniors to complete a community project.  The Start “You choose your topic in the beginning...

Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo (FWSSR) fans will want to get their pink on as the Stock Show focuses on raising breast cancer awareness on January 25. In this effort, the Stock Show welcomes a new partnership with the Careity Foundation which was founded by Lynn Walsh and Beverly Branch, both of whom lost...

Heaven gained another horse angel this past week in Herber City, Utah. Professional Barrel Racer, Jessie Telford, lost her cool whip of a horse. Famous Cool Whip qualified her for her first Wrangler NFR in 2018. Since then, this ten year-old sorrel gelding had been a thrill to watch. He was famous for his long...

Ahead of the 2021 Days of ’47 Cowboy Games and Rodeo (DO47), the World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) and the DO47 Committee have announced the final roster of the 288 athletes (eight athletes per performance) who have qualified for the July 20-24 event and their date of competition. The DO47 is playing host to the...

Northern Nevada native Carrie Ann Sattler has been coming to the Reno Rodeo since she was a young girl. “We used to sit in grandstand one, which you know were the ‘cheap seats,'” Sattler says. “I was so in love with being in the sun. I just love being in the sun, anyway. So I...

Kortnee Solomon is a fourth-generation Texas cowgirl. Her mother is 11-time invitational champion, Kanesha Jackson, and her father is Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association tie-down roper, Cory Solomon. Her grandmother, Stephanie Haynes, is an 18-time invitational champion who also serves on the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo board. Her late grandfather was Sedgwick Haynes, who served as...