Grande Prairie Stompede
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The Grande Prairie Stompede is an agricultural event held typically at the end of May every year at Evergreen Park in Grande Prairie. Recent years have seen above 30,000 people attending during the 5 days of Stompede. Events held at Stompede include: Rodeo
, Pony Chuckwagon Racing, thoroughbred Chuckwagon Racing
and usually a midway.
Rodeo
Rodeo is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States,...
, Pony Chuckwagon Racing, thoroughbred Chuckwagon Racing
Chuckwagon racing
Chuckwagon racing is an equestrian rodeo sport in which drivers in a chuckwagon led by a team of Thoroughbred horses race around a track. The sport is most popular in the Prairie Provinces of Canada, where the World Professional Chuckwagon Association and the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon...
and usually a midway.