Champions Ride Rodeo, Home on the Range

Links of Interest:

Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation www.medora.com
City of Beach www.beachnd.com
North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame www.northdakotacowboy.com
Dickinson Chamber of Commerce www.dickinsonchamber.org
Fraternal Order of Eagles www.foe.com

Calling all rodeo fans, cowboys, cowpokes, buckaroos, city-slickers and everyone else! If you want to see the best saddle-bronc match in North Dakota, come on down and join the fun at the Champions Ride Match Rodeo at Sentinel Butte on August 8, 2010 at 1:00 P.M MDT.

For 54 years the Match has been a premiere event with top ranked professional cowboys who are invited to ride the toughest saddle broncs in the region. Some fans claim the Match is a pre-show of the Wrangler National Finals saddle-bronc riding. In fact, since the first rodeo, every world champion, except one, has competed at the Champions Ride Match Rodeo.

The real reason behind the Champions Ride Match Rodeo? To raise money and awareness for the troubled, neglected, abused and disadvantaged boys and girls that call Home On The Range “home.” While the children are at Home On The Range, the professional staff teach the children socially acceptable skills, help them work through problems and issues of concern, and show them how to make choices that will positively impact their lives. Their program goal is simple – help the child and family, so they can be reunited as a strong and healthy family unit.

So make your plans for August 8, 2010. Bring your blankets and lawn chairs, sit back and enjoy a premiere saddle-bronc match. It all happens at the HOTR rodeo arena. Take Exit #7 on I-94, west of Medora, N. Dak. For more information,
Call for tickets, 701-872-3745

Special weekend combo tickets: for tickets to Medora Musical and Champions Ride Match, call 1-800-MEDORA1 or www.medora.com

Results and photographs from the 2005 Champion's Ride Rodeo. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
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It’s wild! It’s wooly! It’s western! Home On The Range has been sponsoring this unique fundraiser for over 45 years and it is going strong! The invitational Saddle Bronc Match is a premiere event that features twenty of the top professional cowboys mounted on some of pro rodeo’s toughest stock from contractors in the United States and Canada. It is truly entertainment at its finest, and many have ranked it right up there with a performance of the saddle bronc riding at the National Finals Rodeo! In fact, every world champion saddle bronc rider except one has ridden at Champions Ride.

Annually, on the first Sunday in August, spectators gather in the natural amphitheater to watch “champions ride” to benefit the children who call the ranch home. The rustic arena is nestled on the grounds of HOTR in the serene beauty of western North Dakota. Fans are truly “up close and personal” with many of the rodeo personalities they follow on TV. Champion's Ride gives them a great opportunity to get autographs and meet many of their cowboy heroes.

The Ranch and the Rodeo have grown up together and it would be nearly impossible to separate the two and the strong western heritage they share. In 2000, Champion's Ride was honored with the prestigious Special Achievement Award from the ND Cowboy Hall of Fame and was inducted into its ranks – only the third such event to have been honored in this way.

The rodeo itself is truly a class act, but more importantly, it brings people to Home On The Range, to see the working ranch dedicated to helping homeless, troubled and neglected children. The children themselves are on-hand to give tours and share the colorful history of the facility.

Champion's Ride is an affordable quality entertainment event for all ages. There is even a special priced family ticket! All proceeds from the event go to support the children that call Home On The Range home.