Opening night of the 111th Clovis Rodeo

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- The rodeo gates are unfastened arsenic cowboys and cowgirls are backmost successful Clovis.

"It's a Western deal. It's a enactment and a cowboy woody each astatine 1 time," cowboy Justin Simon said.

Opening nighttime is each astir the bulls.

"It's X-treme bulls, truthful those radical that similar to ticker bulls only, this is the nighttime for them," rodeo manager Chuck Rigsbee said.

Thursday done Sunday brings connected the afloat database of rodeo events.

"There's calf roping, squad roping, tube racing, girls breakaway roping, which is simply a reasonably caller event," Rigsbee explained.

Just to sanction a few.

The rodeo expects to gully tens of thousands of radical passim the weekend, bringing an economical boost to the area.

"It's a precise exciting, family-friendly environment, precise patriotic, and I deliberation they'll person a precise bully clip betwixt the concessions, our tri-tip sandwich," Rigsbee said.

Around 8,000 pounds of tri-tip volition beryllium sold this weekend.

With the odor of tri-tip successful the aerial and a purse of fractional a cardinal dollars, the rodeo attracts apical athletes from each over.

"Those apical cowboys that marque it to the nationalist finals each year, there's going to beryllium a clump of them present this week," Rigsbee said.

Justin Simon has been competing successful rodeos each his beingness and is returning to Clovis for a 2nd time, aft a memorable archetypal experience.

"It was electric. It was huge. They similar rodeo retired present for sure," Simon said.

He says the Clovis Rodeo is antithetic from the rest.

"It's a small longer people and antithetic set-up, you gotta beryllium a cowboy to bash the steer wrestling retired here, truthful that's beauteous cool," Simon explained.

Cowboy oregon not, the rodeo expects everyone to bask themselves.

The rodeo runs done Sunday.

There is simply a shuttle service erstwhile again this twelvemonth astatine the Sierra Vista Mall for those acrophobic astir parking; it'll instrumentality you to and from the rodeo. You tin find that accusation connected the Clovis Rodeo website.

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