Calgary Stampede Tickets

 
 
If horses excite you, then wear your boots and pull your saddles as the Calgary Stampede is just around the corner. Calgary Stampede tickets are ready to be sold so make sure to grab them before you miss the opportunity to be at this delightful event.
 
Calgary Stampede is a festival, rodeo and an exhibition that takes place once a year in Canada. This event spans over a period of ten days and has become The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth owing to the number of people it attracts. Millions of people come to attend the show where an exhibition of cattle along with a long line up stage shows, concerts , chuck wagon racing and exhibitions are set up to thrill the audience with the adventure it entails.
 
The Calgary Stampede is organized in a way that increases the excitement of the event by many- fold. The events taking place at the show includes parade, rodeo, rangeland derby, market, midway and exhibitions. The parade serves as the opening act and takes place on the very first Friday of the event. The organizers choose a different format every year for the parade thereby increasing the interest of the people who are present at the venue. A huge variety of marching bands, more than one hundred and fifty floats and numerous horses that have come from different parts of the world are seen throughout the parade. This parade took place for the very first time in the year 1912 and at that time a total of seventy five thousand people participated in it.
 
Rodeo is yet another feature of the Calgary Stampede. The huge exhibition of cattle has become a major reason for the event's popularity. It has huge prize money of a hundred thousand dollars to the winner. The popularity of this show can be estimated by the fact that those who cannot make it to the venue can watch it live on television as it is broadcasted by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The rodeo is divided into a number of categories including barrel racing, bull riding, tie down roping, bareback riding, steer wrestling and saddle bronc. The Rangeland Derby which is popularly known as chuck wagon racing has become one of the most popular features of the show. The prize money for the winner is more than one million dollars. A large crowd gathers around the race to cheer for its favorite racer. The exhibition at the Calgary Stampede took place for the first time in 1886. The main purpose of this exhibition is to highlight the importance of agriculture and promotes related activities.
 
Calgary Stampede tickets will enable you to be a part of an event that offers variety and has something for everyone to enjoy. People belonging to all age groups attend this show and cannot stop themselves from coming back every year.