Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Banquets, team branding, Youth bull riding, clinics
I didn’t make it to the Black Hills Stock Show this year but hear it was a great show. The horse sale was sure a success for the sellers! I haven’t seen the whole report but the top 20 sure had some incredible prices. This is sure a good time to be in the horse business.
The next Sheridan Team Branding will be Feb. 11 at the Houlihan Ranch Arena, Sheridan, Wyo. It’s enter at 11, rope at noon. For more info, call Gabe at 307-360-3153. Always call ahead if the weather seems sketchy.
The DCC Rodeo Team is having the Bucs, Boots, and Buckles Banquet on Feb. 11. It’s to start at 6 p.m. with a silent auction. Dinner will be at 7 p.m., then a live auction at 8 p.m. All will be at the campus Toepke Center, Dickinson, N.D. Tickets are available through team members or the coaches. To donate to the auctions or get tickets, call Shawn McGinley at 406-570-8065.
Entries are open for the All Grit No Quit Youth Bull Riding series first event on Feb. 18, at the CamPlex, Gillette, Wyo. Performances will be at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The entry forms and info can be found at http://www.undergroundbullriders.com, and you can call Shanna at 307-253-8286 to learn more.
The Black Hills Sorting and Cutting Club’s next practice sort will be Feb. 19 at the James Kjerstad Event Center, Rapid City, S.D. They’ll number cattle at 9 a.m. and the sort will be at 10.
In my columns I promote a lot of clinics and schools and the reason I do is that they work! If someone is getting started in an event, going to a school to get the basics right is critical. In the olden days when I was young, schools were nearly non-existant. Entering 100 rodeos or shows to get the experience needed was the old way. Schools are the right way to get started, so I’ll keep promoting them.
These clinics are a ways off but they fill really fast, so if you want in one, get signed up! The 31st Annual Hollers-Golliher Breakaway Clinics have the dates and divisions set. The first one will be Mar. 16 in Salina, Kansas, followed by Mar. 17-19 at Lewisburg, W. Virginia. Then they’ll be back in South Dakota for the rest which will be Mar. 24-26, April 6-8, at Golliher Arena, Belle Fourche, S.D. April 14-16 will be at Zell, S.D. Then there will be two for adult ladies only May 26-27 and June 10-11. Tuition is $300 for adult ladies, $400 for others. Call 605-391-9702 to get signed up.
The No Excuses Connie Combs Barrels Clinic will be April 1-2 at the Custer Co. Fairgrounds, Broken Bow, Neb. It’s $550 for the clinic with $150 non-refundable deposit due at signup, the balance due by Mar. 1. Message Natasha Zunck on Facebook to sign up.
A Joe Frost Bull Riding School will be May 6-7 at Sheridan, Wyo. It’s for ages 12 and up and is $300. It will be held at Sheridan College Agripark. To sign up, call 307-751-5193.
There’s going to be Extreme Bar Bull Riding at the Knuckle Saloon, Sturgis, S.D., on Mar. 18. Gates will open at 5:30 p.m. with the calcutta at 6:30. The bull riding will start at 7 p.m. There’s $1000 added and you can sign up by calling Thad Bothwell at 605-361-9166. For more general info, call Michelle at 605-393-7752.
In the next few months I’ll be getting all of the great event series on here for you. Let me tell you, if you like to do nearly anything in the horse and rodeo world, there’s going to be a series you can enjoy. It’s an exciting thing to have all these opportunities for practice and fun. Let me know if you have a series coming up and I’ll be glad to get you on the list. My email is at the head of this column.
That’s my circle for another week. Pray for those battling extreme weather situations, from flooding in California to snow in Texas. Please pray for our nation as well. May God bless America.
