13-year-old guitar wonder lassos in audience at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
The sounds of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo are hard to miss. Horses neighing. Hooves clicking off the concrete streets. Country music emanating from the grounds at the Will Rogers Memorial Center. With a guitar in hand, 13-year-old Mel Garsek…
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Fort Worth rodeo producer explains how bucking horses get their kicks
If you’ve been to a rodeo at Dickies Arena recently, you’ve seen Jim Gay’s work firsthand. The way he describes it, he is akin to a talent scout for a…
Sold! Auctioneers sound off during bid calling contest at Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
Fast-talking auctioneers are commonplace at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, but a relatively new competition gave them the opportunity to show off their skills beyond selling livestock. Twenty-three contestants…
Fort Worth ISD ag program gives urban students opportunity to raise animals
Neither Stinson Burns, 17, nor Kye Chesmer, 17, live on a farm, but both students have raised and shown animals throughout their time at Arlington Heights High School.The senior and…
Aledo brother, sister support each other when showing goats at Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
“We’ve been through this thing 1,000 times, but each time we come back better.” That’s how half of a brother-sister duo described their time showing off goats at the Fort…
‘Honestly, it was a fairytale’: Fort Worth’s Bayleigh Choate details her rapid rise through the barrel racing ranks
Bayleigh Choate, 19, didn’t intend to make 2022 her first year competing in the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association.The Fort Worth-based barrel racer was planning to get more experience under her…