COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Black Hills Stock Show Rodeo, voted the best indoor rodeo in the PRCA in 2002, will host the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour’s third stop Jan. 31-Feb. 3 in Rapid City, S.D.
The sport's top cowboys and cowgirls will battle it out at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, starting Thursday at the Badlands Circuit’s most lucrative rodeo.
Besides the potential of big paydays, the Black Hills Stock Show also serves as the third of 26 stops on the 2008 Wrangler ProRodeo Tour, following the Tour’s season-opening stops in Odessa, Texas, and Denver. From Rapid City, contestants head to the Texas cities of San Antonio and San Angelo.
The top 35 competitors from the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour standings in terms of prize money, along with the “Wild Card” qualifiers, champions from March’s Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo, will earn a spot in the first Ariat Playoffs event at Caldwell, Idaho.
From there, the top 22 in total Tour money in each event, as well as the Wild Card and the champion from the first Ariat Playoffs event will advance to a 24-person (24 teams in team roping) second playoff event in Puyallup, Wash. The field will then be cut to 12, with those contestants moving on to the next event in Omaha, Neb., then to 10 for the final round in the Playoffs system in Dallas. Fox Sports Network and CBS are scheduled to televise the four Ariat Playoffs events.
The regular-season Tour schedule concludes with the Dodge City (Kan.) Roundup Rodeo in early August.
The Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo has been part of the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour since it was introduced in 2000.
