Lac La Biche welcomes rodeo afternoon

Rob McKinley Aug 29, 2021 8:44 AM
Junior steer rider Ryder Jackson-Cardinal from Kikino earned 70 points and top spot in the junior steer riding heat.▲
A moment of silence was held at the beginning of Saturday's rodeo for McDonald Rodeo patriarch Robbie McDonald. Image Rob McKinley▲
Cowboy Brayden Anderson from Beaver Lake comes out of the chute on Flat Broke in the novice horse-riding category. Image Rob McKinley Image Rob McKinley▲
Horses and riders — some ready for the next event, some just watching from a comfy high seat waited near the rodeo gates.▲
Bullfighter Ricky Ticky Wanchuk is a long-time crowd favourite. The 70-year old rodeo regular works with his son Casey to churn up the laughs while the hooves churn up the dirt.▲
Lac La Biche's Kacen Nowicki, a new rider this year, scored a 68 on his junior steer ride.▲
Team ropers Colby Bowers and Walker Balan from Bonnyville take aim.▲
Tony Squair and Darwin Routhier chase the steer from the chute in the team roping event▲
Junior steer rider Rocky Squair from Clyde hands on tight.▲
Junior steer rider down. Zachary Cardinal from Beaver Lake falls under the buck of his active draw in Saturday's junior steer riding event.▲
Mini bronc rider Rocky Squair was a busy cowboy on Saturday. The Clyde cowboy was in the mini-bronc and junior steer riding events. Other members of the Squair clan were in other rodeo events as well.▲
Rich Lake's Colten Vazeau took his mini-bronc ride down the arena for a qualifying 8 second ride.▲
Hallie Bedwell from Lloydminster gets the lasso circling in the breakaway roping event. The new event was only included in the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association's women's events in 2018.▲
Breakaway roper Hallie Bedwell's toss just misses the steer.▲
Ricky Ticky and Casey Wanchuk 'examine' the man who wrecked Ricky's cowboy hat during a comedy break at Saturday's LLB Rodeo.▲
Hold On. Buffalo Lake's Ryan McDonald and his draw Cajun Chrome get a jump out of the gates.▲
We said, hold on. McDonald takes a moment to compose after getting bucked off Cajun Chrome in his first go-round of the saddle bronc event on Saturday.▲
One jumped, one dumped. Lonnie Dunn from Big Lakes, Sasktchewan tasted some Lac La Biche dirt in his first go-round of the saddle bronc event on Saturday.▲
Rodeo helpers watch the action from the high seats during Saturday's Lac La Biche Rodeo at the LLB Agriculture Grounds.▲
Dustin Lega from Newbrook rode McDonald stock favourite Bad Blood for a good ride in front of the stands.▲
Lac La Biche bronc rider Matt Stronach gets turned upside down ... then kicked to the dirt by his horse Cajun during Saturday afternoon's rodeo. Stronach was OK after the rough dismount.▲
The faces in the crowd show the audible gasps as the drop-kick from the horse sent Stronach another five feet away. ▲

The Billy McDonald Summer rodeo series kicked-off with the Lac La Biche opener on Saturday. It was the first sanctioned rodeo to rough-up the dirt at the Lac La Biche Ag Grounds in more than a year.

 

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