2010 Stock Show from another angle
One of the region’s largest events has been going on in Rapid City for the past week – the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo. Held at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center and the Central States Fairground, the annual event is an absolute western extravaganza. The more than 300,000 people that attend are proof of that.
Understandably, the wild rodeo events like bull riding and saddle bronc riding tend to get the majority of the attention. The Stock Show portion of the week, however, often gets overlooked by much of the media. It’s during that part of the event that livestock is shown, judged and eventually sold to regional and national ranchers.
Last weekend a friend of mine spent the day at the stock show and caught some great photos of one of the horse sales in progress. His “behind the scenes” way of looking at the event is a view that most people never get to see.
Enjoy!
