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Today’s 3-day Western Heritage Classic started because a few cowboys had the notion to gather, have some fun and show off what they did for a living.
enough to have approximately 400 volunteers who spend a lot of their personal time preparing for the event. She says the Classic draws 30,000 to 35,000 people over its 3 days.
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There’s a lot for them to see. “We try to schedule it so you can go from one activity to another,” she says. The working ranch horse competition, prelude to the Ranch Horse Association of American National Finals on Saturday, starts on Thursday and is free to the public. Admission is charged Friday and Saturday. The trade show and the bit and spur show go on all day both days. Friday’s main events are the working ranch horse competition at the coliseum and the rodeo in the evening. “Our chuckwagon groups are setting up for their competition that is
on Saturday,” she says, “and we have cowdog demonstrations and horse demonstrations that go on at different times during the day on Friday.” Saturday is busier yet. Add an art show to the trade and the bit and
spur shows. There’s a ranch horse sale Saturday morning, followed by the working ranch horse competition fi nals, and then by the matched horse races. The rodeo wraps things up in the evening. Outside of the rodeo, Johnson says the matched horse races are prob-
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ably their biggest draw. “We had about 39 entries this last year, the largest number of entries that we’ve had,” she says. “When you’re running off two horses at a time, it makes for a pretty long event. That event could probably stand on its own on another weekend. There are probably 4,000 to 5,000 people that crowd out in the heat or the rain. People just like sit- ting out there, betting on the horses. It’s a lot of fun.”
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