Riders put on a show

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

Despite the wet weather that pushed back the 11th annual Gleichen Rodeo a day, people got treated to a great evening of riding on Saturday and finals on Sunday.
“It was really good,” said Gleichen Rodeo president Jeff Yule.
“Our local kids did alright, there was a couple of kids that won the wild pony racing.”
With several hundred riders participating, Yule likes keeping the rodeo amateur and would not want it to change to a professionals’ stop any time soon.
He found that many riders had improved immensely from the last time he saw them at the last rodeo.
“A few of them kids are getting a little bit better,” said Yule.
“Some of them don’t, some of them do. They just practice and we actually take animals in the winter for them kids to practice up to Cochrane, there’s an indoor arena.”
Yule shared his take on what can be done at the rodeo in the future without making it any bigger than it is.
“I don’t know how much more we can change,” said Yule.
“There’s always stuff you can improve. We’ve talked about a few different things that we’re going to do. As far as the whole thing goes, I don’t think we want the biggest rodeo. There’s only so much we want to do because it’s a fairly small committee, everybody is happy the way it is, nobody really wants to get up tense.”
He added that a midway would not be in the books but more child activities might be in the works, while another concession is a consideration as well.
Yule would also like to give a big shout out to the volunteers, as they made the event run that much better.