Newport Rough Stock Rodeo Saturday

NEWPORT – The Newport Rough Stock Rodeo will take place Saturday, Aug 3, starting at 7:30 p.m., featuring the riding events and women’s barrel racing.

The rodeo will have the classic rodeo riding events, saddle bronc riding and bull riding, as well as ranch bronc riding. There will be no bareback riding this year, as there were only two bareback riders last year.

The Newport Rough Stock Rodeo happens the same weekend as the Bonner County Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Rodeo, set for Aug. 2-3 in Sandpoint.

Newport Rodeo Association President Ray Hanson said entries are still open for the Newport Rough Stock Rodeo. He said he will make some adjustments so competitors from the Bonner County rodeo can compete at Newport.

“We’ll have saddle bronc riding as the last event, so cowboys coming from Sandpoint can ride,” Hanson said.

Caleb McMillan of Soap Lake, Washington, the defending PRCA Columbia River Circuit All Around Champion, is up Friday at Sandpoint and will compete at Newport Saturday.

The panty pull contest, a popular contest in which local teams try to put pantyhose on a rambunctious calf, is still accepting entries. Entries can be made online at www.NewportRodeo. com or call Hanson at 360-7701180.

“We’ll only have five teams,” Hanson said.

Barrel racing will have the most contestants, Hanson said, with three full sections, 35 barrel racers in all.

“It will be an open event this year,” he said. In the past there have been different classes but this year it will be one open competition.

For the rough stock events, bull riding drew the most entries, with 15 cowboys entered, Hanson said, with more anticipated. Aces Wild supplied stock for the Newport Rodeo and returns for the Rough Stock Rodeo. Saddle bronc riding got nine entries, including Newport’s Austin Krogh, a past Rough Stock saddle bronc winner. There are eight or nine riders entered in the ranch bronc riding.

The C.O.P.S. Mounted Patrol drill team will make another appearance.

There will also be the Wild Card Trick Riders, a group of young people from Eastern Washington.

The arena action will be called by rodeo announcer Brent Jordan, who announced the Newport Rodeo the last two years. Jordan, of Bozeman, Montana, is president of the Montana Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame.

Ticket prices are $25 for adults and $12 for children ages 4-11. Children younger than 4 are admitted free. Hanson says the ticket prices are the same as at the Newport Rodeo in June. Tickets cost $7 more than they did at last year’s Rough Stock event.