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Wrangler ProRodeo Tour expands to 26 cities in 2008 The Wrangler ProRodeo Tour is expanding from 21 to 26 elite events for the 2008 season, including three of the top four prize money rodeos sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association -- Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days, San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo and the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo. The 26 rodeos in this year's lineup combined to offer prize money of nearly $8.3 million in 2007 and will project at something closer to $9 million in 2008, without taking into account the highly-successful Ariat Playoffs series at season's end, which this year paid out $1.62 million to the contestants who qualified. For the third consecutive year, the Wrangle ProRodeo Tour will begin at the SandHills Stock Show & Rodeo in Odessa, Texas, Jan. 4-12. It will be followed by the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Jan. 12-27; the Black Hills Stock Show Rodeo, in Rapid City, S.D., Jan. 31-Feb. 3 and the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Feb. 1-16. The Wrangler ProRodeo Tour again concludes with the Dodge City (Kan.) Round-Up, in early August. Contestants choose which 15 of the 26 rodeos they want to have counted toward their Wrangler ProRodeo Tour standings and the top 35 finishers in each event qualify for the first round of the four-tiered Ariat Playoffs, along with the winners of the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Pocatello, Idaho, in March. |
| 2008 Wrangler ProRodeo Tour Regular Season | |||
| Tour Event | Start Date | Location | Rodeo Website |
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| Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo | Fri, Jan. 4 | Odessa, TX | Website |
| National Western Stock Show | Sat, Jan. 12 | Denver, CO | Website |
| Blackhills Stock Show Rodeo | Thu, Jan. 31 | Rapid City, SD | Website |
| San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo | Fri, Feb. 1 | San Antonio, TX | Website |
| San Angelo Rodeo | Thu, Feb. 21 | San Angelo, TX | Website |
| Rodeo Austin | Mon, Mar. 3 | Austin, TX | Website |
| Laughlin River Stampede | Thu, Mar. 27 | Laughlin, NV | Website |
| Grand National Rodeo Horse & Stock Show | Fri, Apr. 4 | San Francisco, CA | Website |
| Clark County Fair and Rodeo | Thu, Apr. 10 | Logandale, NV | Website |
| Red Bluff Round-Up | Fri, Apr. 18 | Red Bluff, CA | Website |
| Buc Days ProRodeo | Thu, Apr. 24 | Corpus Christi, TX | Website |
| Clovis Rodeo | Fri, Apr. 25 | Clovis, CA | Website |
| Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo | Fri, May. 2 | Guymon, OK | Website |
| Redding Rodeo | Thu, May. 15 | Redding, CA | Website |
| Reno Rodeo | Thu, Jun. 19 | Reno, NV | Website |
| Worlds Oldest Rodeo | Mon, Jun. 30 | Prescott, AZ | Website |
| Rodeo of the Ozarks | Tue, Jul. 1 | Springdale, AR | Website |
| Cody Stampede | Tue, Jul. 1 | Cody, WY | Website |
| St. Paul Rodeo | Wed, Jul. 2 | St. Paul, OR | Website |
| 4th of July Youth Celebration & PRCA ProRodeo | Sat, Jul. 5 | Window Rock, AZ | Website |
| Dinosaur Roundup | Wed, Jul. 9 | Vernal, UT | |
| Snake River Stampede | Tue, Jul. 15 | Nampa, ID | Website |
| California Rodeo Salinas | Thu, Jul. 17 | Salinas, CA | Website |
| Days of 47 Rodeo | Fri, Jul. 18 | Salt Lake City, UT | Website |
| Cheyenne Frontier Days | Fri, Jul. 18 | Cheyenne, WY | Website |
| Dodge City Round-Up | Wed, Jul. 30 | Dodge City, KS | Website |
