The 40th anniversary Ramona Rodeo will host patriotic celebrations along with a variety of cowboy competitions Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 3-5.
Traditional rodeo events being featured are bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, calf roping, team roping, bull riding, barrel racing and breakaway roping.
Breakaway roping is a new event this year that has only been included in professional rodeo-sanctioned events starting in 2020, said Ramona Rodeo Production Coordinator Kayla Duba.
In December 2019, the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association announced the historic opportunity to include breakaway roping — a variation of calf roping where a calf is roped, but not thrown and tied — as an addition event that may be offered at Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association-sanctioned rodeos, she said.
“It’s a women’s roping event that has been well received all over the country,” Duba said. “We’re excited to bring it to the Ramona Rodeo arena.”
Competitors will vie for purses of up to $5,000 at each event.
Joani Georgeson, co-chair of the Ramona Rodeo Committee, said this year’s theme is “Tattoos on R-Town.” She said the theme reflects a memory that is held dear when thinking about Ramona. She compared it to a tattoo on the brain that is memorialized and never forgotten, adding that all these memories become the various tattoos.
“The different tattoos on our town brought us to where we are today,” Georgeson said. “We want to bring something good for the crowd because they need something to look forward to.”
Festivities begin Friday evening with a “Stars and Stripes Forever” salute to the nation’s military. Patrons are encouraged to wear red, white and blue that evening to coordinate with the patriotic decor.
On Saturday, the event will spotlight the late cowboy, rodeo performer and actor Casey Tibbs, a nine-time world champion saddle bronc rider.
The Ramona Rodeo was formerly called the “Casey Tibbs Roundup,” until he passed in 1990 and the rodeo lost the rights to use his name, Georgeson said.
Tibbs’ impact on Ramona’s rodeo and his contributions toward enabling rodeo to become a Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association-sanctioned event will be featured at the event. Rodeo guests are encouraged to wear purple and gold, Tibbs’ signature colors.
Sunday night’s event will be dedicated to first responders and frontline workers, including fire, law enforcement and medical personnel. Audience members will again be encouraged to wear red, white and blue to help celebrate the evening.
Ramona Rodeo festivities will include salutes to the military and first responders.
(Reed Settle/PRCA Photographer)
The difficulties of holding a large-scale event during a pandemic are being felt by rodeos around the nation — including Poway’s rodeo — which have been canceled, Georgeson said. Ramona’s rodeo was postponed last year due to COVID-19.
Ramona’s Rodeo Committee only had 10 weeks to plan this year’s event, Georgeson said, and experienced a lot of “hurry up and wait” conditions from the county.
It wasn’t until five weeks ago that the committee found out it could hold the rodeo without specific seating restrictions, she said. Rodeo guests will be free to sit in the stands in the designated VIP, preferred and general admission seating areas. They will not have to maintain 6 feet of distance since it is an outdoors event, she added.
“I’d love to have a sold out crowd,” Georgeson said. “It’s the first time we’ve had it on a holiday weekend so I never know what we’re going to get.”
However, Georgeson said patrons will be encouraged to wear masks, and handwashing and hand sanitizing stations will be set up throughout the venue.
Sideline entertainment will include mutton busting, where children ride sheep, and rodeo clown Bert Davis, who will perform dog acts with his trained rescue dogs.
The event will be held at the Fred Grand Arena in the Ramona Outdoor Community Center, 421 Aqua Lane. Prices and times vary.
General admission is $15 per adult on Friday and Sunday, and $20 per adult on Saturday; preferred seating is $25 on Friday, $40 on Saturday and $30 on Sunday; and VIP seating is $50 on Friday, $100 on Saturday and $50 on Sunday. Children 12 and under are free on Friday only.
Major sponsors include Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions stores in addition to local sponsors Ransom Bros. True Value Hardware, Diamond D Feed & Supply Co., All About Fun RV Rental, Ramona Disposal Service, and the Ramona Sentinel.
More information is available online at ramonarodeo.com.
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