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Clowns, bulls a hit with rodeo fans
Feb 12, 2012 (Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Boots, shiny belt buckles and hats were the appropriate dress for both participants and spectators Saturday at the Lone Star Rodeo.
"She's had her outfit ready for two days," Maria Leach of Bowling Green said of her 6-year-old daughter, Kaylee Pedigo.
Kaylee was decked out in a pink shirt with fringe in a "V" on the front, pink boots and her cowboy hat.
Kaylee said her favorites at the rodeo are the clowns.
"The one who makes the chickens," she said.
The clown put a fake concoction in a fake microwave and came out with a real live chicken that had the audience in stitches.
The clowns are an integral part of the rodeo, keeping the audience entertained before competition starts and between events.
Four-year-old Gavin Sears of Auburn was sitting on the lap of his mom, Angie, watching bareback bronc riding, grimacing when one of the horses fell down while it was bucking.
The clowns amused Gavin, but it was the main event that he was really waiting for.
"Where are the bulls?" he asked.
Ethan Burden, 11, of Morgantown, had much the same question.
Ethan said that was the main reason he came to the rodeo again this year.
His dad, Tim Burden, said it's a good family event. He brought along two daughters and one of their friends.
"He had a really good time last year," Burden said of Ethan and the decision to return.
The matinee was well-attended, with nearly all of the 2,075 bleacher seats and 300 chairs taken. Because so many people were in attendance, it took a while for the crowd to take their seats. Some were still jockeying for parking when it started.
"But this is really the only time of the year that we have this issue," facility manager Tim Jones said of the lack of parking.
For many of the other meetings, horse shows and other activities that are hosted at Western Kentucky University's L.D. Brown Agricultural Exposition Center, the parking is more than adequate, Jones said.
WKU agriculture student Cory Wallace of Hopkinsville was taking tickets at the door. Wallace, a junior, said it's his third rodeo to work.
"I really like how much everybody gets so into it," Wallace said. "It's almost like a basketball game."
-- The rodeo continues today with a 2 p.m. performance.
___ (c)2012 the Daily News (Bowling Green, Ky.) Visit the Daily News (Bowling
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