61st Stock Show and Rodeo

Nursing sophomore Jennifer McClean rides the mechanical bull during the Wild West Rodeo Roundup Feb. 10 in the Fiesta Room of Loftin.



Agriculture science sophomores Jason Brister and of Palo Alto College identify the different pig meats for Sage Sale, 14, of Nueces County during the swine skillathon Feb. 9 at the 61st Annual Stock Show and Rodeo. 18 students of agriculture Instructor Weldon Riggs at Palo Alto College volunteered to help run the skillathon, which tested youth through age 18 on their knowledge of pigs, awarding the most skilled senior a $12,000 scholarship.





Powe Acosta and her sister Carmen ride Power Feb. 6 at the fair grounds of the 61st Annual Stock Show and Rodeo, in the parking lot of the AT&T Center.

Clark Toalson, 13, washes his cow Lindsey Feb. 6 in Cattle Barn 2 at the 61st Annual Stock Show and Rodeo, in the parking lot of the At&T Center. After drying her with a hair dryer, Toalson will enter Lindsey into the American Brangus show.

Ashley Bennet and Trey Russel kiss on the ferris wheel at the fair grounds of San Antonio's 61st Annual Stock Show and Rodeo Feb. 6, at the AT&T Center parking lot. Bennet and Russel came to see the rodeo from Ingleside, Texas.