Gritty in pink
Hey, partner, are you tough enough to wear pink?
Competitors and other cowboys at the pro rodeo tonight, beginning at 7, will wear a shade of blush as a united effort to raise awareness for breast cancer research. The theme will continue throughout the stock show.
All Corral West stores, including a site at the stock show, will donate a portion of their sales of pink attire to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research.
“Every cowboy has a mother, a wife, a sister,” said stock show spokeswoman Kati Anderson.
This year’s unofficial theme is women, she said.
“While many of the men involved in the show are here, women are back home doing whatever it takes to run the ranch behind the scenes,” said Anderson, a former rodeo queen from Wyoming.
Loco motion
Rodeo is for daredevils, but few are more daring than the riders in the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza that began Saturday night and continues today at 2:30 p.m. at the Denver Coliseum as part of the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo.
While participants in the Wrangler ProRodeo, which opens tonight, were getting ready Saturday afternoon, the Mexican competitors and performers were nowhere to be found in the coliseum.
“Those guys are something else,” said groomer Nelson Adair. “They come in here at the last minute like they haven’t given it the first thought, and they do stuff that will flat get you killed.”
The show includes Mexican bullfighters, bronc riders and the paso de la muerte, in which a horseman jumps from the back of one moving horse to another.
Just like the Duke’s
Vendors and retailers in the metro area can view a saddle that is a replica of one used by John Wayne.
The limited-edition saddle commemorates what would have been John Wayne’s 100th birthday this year and will be on display at the Western/English Apparel & Equipment Market at the Denver Merchandise Mart at Interstate 25 and 58th Avenue, Friday to Jan. 16.
The Circle Y replica is modeled after Wayne’s personal saddle, which is on display at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
The saddles are collectors’ items that sell for $6,800. “These saddles will probably never see a horse,” said Circle Y spokeswoman Anne Fordyce.
A portion of the proceeds supports the John Wayne Cancer Foundation. For more information visit www.circley.com or www.johnwayne.com.
Fame’s fickle wind
Was that a compliment?
It was hard to tell, as Audra Winn – “Audra” from the Rocky’s Auto TV commercials – poured cream in her coffee at a stock show Danish stand Saturday.
An employee, Patricia Estrada, was starstruck.
“You’re so beautiful in person,” Estrada said.
Later, Estrada confessed she first thought Winn was 9News weather anchor Kathy Sabine.
TODAY’S SCHEDULE
7 a.m.: Quarter Horse Western Performance Classes
8 a.m.: Fellowship of Christian Cowboys Service
9 a.m.: Gelbvieh Pen Show; Poultry Show Judging; South Devon Show
10 a.m.: Mass; Fiddle Contest
1 p.m.: National Salers Futurity Bull Show
2 p.m.: $15,000 Dodge Invitational Freestyle Reining
2:30 p.m.: Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza
3 p.m.: Limousin Sale Cattle Parade; National Gelbvieh Junior Heifer Show
6 p.m.: Dog Pull; USEF/FEI Open Reining Championship Qualifier and Young Rider; Medal Qualifier
7 p.m.: ProRodeo; National Gelbvieh Sale
