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The road to the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth will go through Okotoks for some of the world’s best horsemen and women.

They build cowboys young and strong in the Black Diamond area. Black Diamond’s Jake Burwash, 13, competed in the Junior High School National Rodeo championships in Gallup, New Mexico this week.

Two Okotoks athletes are becoming fast friends after running into one another on the Alberta track and field circuit.

The 106th Millarville Races on Canada will offer fans a chance to lay down a wager. “Historically, we have had a paint race of about 250 and five thoroughbred races,” said Dot Stein, manager of the Rocky Mountain Turf Club in Lethbridge.

Being pushed by some of foothills’ finest helped a chuckwagon driver grab his third North American Chuckwagon championship in six years last week.

An Okotokian who put down his hockey stick in order to wrestle steers cashed his biggest rodeo cheque of his career last week in High River.

The former Dawg who was honoured on Friday night isn’t about to get a big head about the whole deal.

A veteran railbird will be on the other side of the rail this Canada Day. Phoebe Bushnell has been a spectator at the Millarville Stock Horse Races for more than a decade. This year she plans to be racing with her horse Willie.

The only thing rotten about a Millarville cowboy’s ride last night was the name of the horse. Same Kelts had the top ride in the saddle bronc event at the Guy Weadick Memorial Rodeo on Thursday when he rode Rotten Ralph to an 80.5 in High River.

A Millarville cowboy found himself in an unusual situation when the Canadian Finals Rodeo took place last November — he wasn’t there.