With hard working, loving parents and two older brothers. Kenney comes from very humble beginnings, born and raised in small town, USA, in southwest Missouri. Hampton Pro Rodeo is ready to RIDE ON into the future! With 33 years experience in the Rodeo Business they may be new to PRCA but are NOT new to Rodeo. In 2019 the Hampton’s embarked on a lifelong goal and joined the PRCA. Jay (20) is an undergraduate student at UARK majoring in Poultry Science who has established his own set of bucking mares and is focused on raising the next generation of Hampton Pro Rodeo’s equine athlete’s. (25) is a PharmD student with one year left in pharmacy school and has a passion for bucking bulls. The Hampton’s have two son’s who are also heavily involved with rodeo. Wife Gina is a former competitor and also a former Miss Rodeo Arkansas who traded a saddle for the announcer’s stand and became IPRA ’s Rodeo Secretary of the Year a record 18 times and secretaried 4 IFR’s. Rodeo runs deep in the Hampton Household. Aside from the animals, Hampton also prides himself in hiring quality personnel and putting on a fast paced, family oriented show. The most prolific of these animals is a Saddle Bronc Horse named “Drama Queen” fire branded #134 who herself alone is credited with 6 of the aforementioned awards. Hampton animal athletes have also brought home Bucking Stock of the IFR awards 12 times over the Years. The rest of the stats can speak for themselves: 21 Bucking Stock of the Year Winners, which include 3 Bareback Horse Titles, 7 Saddle Bronc Horse Titles and 11 Bucking Bull of the Year Titles. In 1998 Hampton was recognized as IPRA’s Stock Contractor of the Year which is a title that he has now been awarded a record 21 times. Hampton Rodeo has had much success within the rodeo industry having won awards too numerous to mention individually. His rodeos gained recognition by rough stock cowboys who liked his stock and timed event cowboys who appreciated the time and effort Hampton put into keeping even sets of timed event cattle. Hampton began booking rodeos regionally and became a member of the International Professional Rodeo Association. In a series of events that followed Hampton found himself holding the reins to his own stock contracting business and he hasn’t looked back since. Having no bucking stock of his own, he hired a local stock contractor to put on the rodeos. He grew up roping calves and steers and built a small indoor arena to practice in, but before long, he was hosting small jackpots and rodeos there. The annual event reflects a time when the XIT Ranch stretched across 3 million acres of Texas Panhandle prairies.įor information, call 80 or visit Hampton was fresh out of high school in when his stock contracting business began to take flight. Tickets are $10 Thursday, $15 Friday and $20 Saturday. nightly dances are Cameran Nelson on Thursday, Bart Crow on Friday and Cody Johnson on Saturday. at the arena.īands performing for the 9 p.m. down Denrock Avenue the fiddlers contest at noon at Rita Blanca Lake Picnic Pavilion the annual Mud Bogs at the old KOA campground near the arena and the "world's largest free barbecue" from 4 to 6 p.m. at Dalhart Senior Citizens Center, 610 Denrock Ave. On Saturday, events include the XIT Breakfast and Brunch at 8 a.m. Thursday at United Supermarket, 1601 Tennessee Blvd. Fifth St., through Saturday the Joe Nisbett XIT FK and one-mile run Saturday and more.Ī free chicken leg feed begins at 4 p.m. The fun continues around town with work from featured artist Roylynn Evans at XIT Museum, 108 E. nightly through Saturday at the rodeo arena, 1219 Farm-to-Market Road 281.Īdmission is $10 adults and $5 for children ages 5 to 12 on Friday and Saturday children 12 and younger are free Thursday with a donation of Pop Tarts or peanut butter for Snack Pak 4 Kids. Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association competition takes place at 7 p.m. Action continues through Saturday at the 79th annual XIT Rodeo and Reunion in Dalhart.
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