Special Events
The purchase of admission to a ticketed event includes one free grounds
admission per ticket for the day of the ticketed event and access to great food
and shopping opportunities!
Colorado Rodeo Champions Vs The World
Features our own Colorado Rodeo Champions vs Rodeo Champions of the World in 3 opening day rodeos like none other. 2 exciting Semi-Finals leading up to the Finale on Saturday night! |
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Pro Rodeo
Bulls and broncs, cowboys and cowgirls – rodeo’s biggest superstars perform amazing feats of athleticism during each performance of our professional rodeo. Whether you prefer thrills and spills or speed and agility, the National Western’s ProRodeo is the event for you. |
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RAM Invitational Freestyle Reining
Enjoy the elegance and athleticism of the world’s top reining horses during the RAM Invitational Freestyle Reining. Unique to any other event in the horse world, the National Western’s freestyle reining features amazing feats of western dressage choreographed to fantastical musical themes. |
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Draft Horse
Featuring the work horses of yesteryear, the National Western Draft Horse and Mule Show offers the beauty, grandeur and sheer force of today’s draft horses and mules. Each performance is unique and filled with competition classes to suit a variety of tastes. See stunning 4, 6 and 8 horse hitches or light, medium and heavy weight horse pulls, plus mules performing under saddle and in harness. |
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Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza
Mild, medium or caliente – no matter how you like your entertainment, the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza has something for you. In addition to folkloric dancers, exhibition bMild, medium or caliente – no matter how you like your entertainment, the
Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza has something for you. In addition to folkloric
dancers, exhibition bullfighters and North America’s top charros competing in
bareback and bull riding, champion charro Jerry Diaz displays his rope artistry
and horsemanship skills. |
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An Evening of Dancing Horses®
Designed to thrill even the most discriminating horse enthusiast, An Evening of Dancing Horses® is packed full of dressage, freestyle reining, drill elements and plenty more equestrian disciplines. Plus, it’s all choreographed to the music of the Denver Brass. |
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Denver Chute-Out PBR Touring Pro Finale
True down-and-dirty, in-your-face, hard-hitting competition, the Denver Chute-Out PBR Touring Pro Final features the world’s best bull riders clinging to the top of an 1,800-pound mountain of muscle for eight seconds of glory. |
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Grand Prix
The wine-and-roses event of the National Western Horse Show, the Grand Prix brings sophisticated competition and North America’s elite jumping horses together to compete for more than $30,000 in prize money. |
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Super Dogs
Bringing a show full of amazing tricks, aerial stunts and comedy antics all performed by man’s best friend. Super Dogs is one of the National Western’s hottest family events. |
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National Western's New Wild West Show
Imagine how the West was won when Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane ride into the Events Center during two Wild West Shows. Fans of all ages can reminisce of frontier days during the shoot-‘em-up antics and cowboy entertainment of the Great American Wild West Show. |
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MLK Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo
Black cowboys and cowgirls headline the National Western’s Martin Luther King, Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo. Champion black rodeo athletes compete in the Pony Express relay, ladies’ steer undecorating and more traditional rodeo events. |
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Comfort Dental Stadium Arena Mutton Bustin'
Five to 7-year-olds under 55 pounds ride a sheep out of a bucking chute and into
the rodeo arena. Like professional rodeo events, time and score count, but all
of these aspiring cowboys and cowgirls receive a participation award from the
sponsor. Anything goes, and usually does, as contestants cling to the back of
thickly coated lamb as long as they can. |
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