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Fort Worth Stock Show
The Stock Show is the place to enjoy plenty of fun and family entertainment. The Moos Brothers, the official Fort Worth Stock Show Ambassadors, are promoting them with zest. From the educational exhibits to the livestock barns or the ever-popular midway rides, there?s something for everyone. Stock Show added the sport of team roping to the PRCA event line up. It was held off-site until accommodations could be made in the Coliseum for the 2007 Stock Show.
Easily identified by their attire, Hoss Moos insists on a cowboy hat while Elwood Moos prefers a gimme cap. These Tarrant County natives are fun-loving bulls that will devote their lives to promoting the Stock Show.
In 1896, First Stock Show takes place in March on the banks of Marine Creek in North Fort Worth, while the second show coincided with the National Livestock Exchange Convention meeting.
In 1904 Bill Pickett, “The Dusky Demon” invented bulldogging act at the Stock Show. 1916 saw the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show, held in the Coliseum during Stock Show with the performance by their beloved “the first cowgirl”.
1918 had another addition of the rodeo that was added to the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show. Opening day of the rodeo was the unquestioned highlight of the year for thousands of people. Stock Show adopted Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show as official name. The Northside Coliseum hosted the first indoor rodeo event as “strictly a contest”; events include ladies’ bucking bronco, junior steer riding, men’s steer riding and bucking bronco.
After almost fifty decades, special entertainment at the rodeo included an unusual riding team of Zippy riding a Scottish Sheepdog. The animals were owned and trained by Tom Lucia of Weatherford. Finally in 1987 the Stock Show adopted Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show as official name and a year later Will Rogers Equestrian Center opened. In 1996 the Stock Show celebrated its Centennial Anniversary. Charlie & Kit Moncrief Building was opened which included the 1,100 seat W.R. Watt Arena. The bronze statue John Justin and “Baby Blue” was also erected this year and the Stock Show had a record paid Rodeo attendance of 152,989.
Stock Show now has an expanded schedule of 23 days that features its new Ranching Heritage Weekend. A record 951,000 visitors attend the show. Records were established with over 24,000 head of livestock entered and 14 livestock sales that generated $4,322,675.

Get ready for the biggest Rodeo and Live Stock show of the year. Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is back again this year with twenty three days full of excitement. Like every year, this year will be no less entertaining. In fact this year’s lineup of events, are doubled as compared to what the show offered to its attendees in its previous editions. This year the show will be featuring numerous live musical performances by many renowned musicians, as well as all the excitement that the rodeo championship has to offer. In addition to that, the show also features numerous live stock exhibits that are also perfectly suitable for younger audience as well. All of this also comes with extremely delicious food and abundant shopping space in case you’re looking to buy something. Everyday Rodeo Roadhouse at the Round Up Inn will staging highly entertaining live musical performances. The concerts will feature live covers of some of the greatest hits as well as new material performed by the bands. Rodeo Roadhouse helps you get your groove on, and listen to some fine tunes as you enjoy your stay at the Stock Show and Rodeo.
This year will mark show’s 115 th anniversary. The history of Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo goes all the way back to 1896 when it was staged for the very first time in Northern region of Fort Worth around the banks of Marine Creek. With the parade, the show was opened for the very first time on October 12 of that year. A few years after, as the success of the show grew, it started to attract significant number of attendees every year which is why many of the local commercial merchants became interested in advertise with the show. Almost after four years of its formation, the show’s name was changed to Texas Fat Stock Show in 1901. By that time, Stock Show has established itself as a major rodeo event of the year in that region and started attracting huge number of participants as well. And in 1904, the show also featured the Bulldogging techniques of Bill Pickett, the inventor of Bulldogging. By 1908, the show became headquartered at the Northside Coliseum, which was regarded at the most dynamic live stock pavilion in the region.
Offering state of the art facilities, the coliseum became the premium live stock show hosting venue of the entire western hemisphere. Apart from that, in the same year, the show was also renamed to the National Feeders and Breeders Show. By 1911, the popularity of the show went national, which is why it attracted the attention of that time’s United States president Theodore Roosevelt, who attended the show as the guest of honor. And also in that year, Hereford Breed of cattle was exhibited for the first time at the show as well. The show is also famous for staging the indoor cowboy riding contest for the first time, when it was held as a part of the show for the first time in 1917. 1946 marked the golden or 50 th anniversary of the show and in that year the show was moved to Will Rogers Memorial Complex. The show completed a century as a well celebrated stock and rodeo show in 1996 when it celebrated its 100 th anniversary. Show’s 100 years of history advocated its excellence and growing popularity amongst the people. That year Fort Worth Stock and Rodeo show accomplished the feat of attracting 152,989 paid visitors to show, setting a record for itself. Also in 1996, the show was moved to Charlie & Kit Moncrief Building.
With every passing year, the show is just getting better and better at providing the most level of entertainment that the one can acquire from such a show. So experience for yourself for why the show has been a success for more than a century now, by getting your Fort Worth Stock Show tickets today.