Ride at Stampede Rodeo
Ride at Stampede Rodeo
By: Marilyn Morphis
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Posted by editor Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
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2 responses 0 comments This coming Friday and Saturday evenings, May 5 and 6, the Tehachapi Dust ‘n Diamonds Equestrian Drill Team will again perform at the annual Kern County Sheriff Reserve Stampede Rodeo held at the Kern County Fair Grounds.
The Diamonds annually perform at the Stampede Rodeo and consider it their kick-off for their drill season every year. They will be performing one of two drills that they have perfected in preparation for the three Western States Equestrian Drill Team Association competitions that they will be attending throughout the drill season in June, July and September in Reno, Los Angeles and Santa Rosa.
The Diamonds will be dressed in pink to honor a Wrangler Jeans promotion this year called “Tuff Enough to Wear Pink” in which Wrangler Jeans will donate a dollar toward breast cancer research for everyone showing up at the Stampede Rodeo wearing pink.
Also, the Diamonds will be performing to the song “Streets of Bakersfield” in honor of the memory of the late Buck Owens and all the contributions he made to Kern County, country music and rodeo. The Diamonds go back far enough in Kern County rodeo history that they rode at the same rodeo when it was named the Buck Owens Stampede Days Rodeo.
Dust ‘n Diamonds consists of a wide variety of talented riders. In the front flag line is the current Junior Miss Rodeo Tehachapi, Brooke Sander carrying one of two American flags; current rodeo queen contestant, Taylor Osdale, carrying the team flag; and R.I.S.E. coordinator, Terri Sturn, carrying the California flag. The team rides under the leadership of drill master Shawna Stillman and assistant drill master Lori Sander.
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