SALINAS – A newborn baby and an ankle recovery didn’t stop nationally renowned trick riders Madison Thomas and Haley Proctor from sharing their talents with the crowd at the California Rodeo Salinas ...

Imagine standing straight in the air on a galloping horse. Or holding the side of the saddle while upside down. Go further — think about being lifted into an arabesque by another rider on a horse at ...

CHEYENNE — We’ve all heard of the bull riders, bronc riders, Miss Frontier and her lady-in-waiting, the Dandies and other notable figures in Cheyenne Frontier Days, but there is another group of ...

Jun. 29—Big Tasty might sound like a mouth-watering hamburger, but it's really the name of one of Canadian champ Bella Da Costa's trick-riding horses. The big grey gelding was used as a pickup horse, ...

If you looked at the horse riders stationed in a semicircle on the gravel parking lot for the Half Way Store, Junior Jiménez was the least likely version of Joaquín Murrieta, the fabled outlaw who ...

Five years ago, a cowgirl named Angel Widmoser met a mare labeled as an "ugly 2-year-old reject." Angel is a trick rider and reiner; a rider who can control their horse in a precise and effortless ...

Rodeo performing is in Rider Kiesner’s blood. Kiesner’s grandfather and father both competed in rodeos, and his mother has photos of her competing in barrel racing while pregnant with him. Bethany ...