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SALT LAKE CITY (June 11, 2019) – The Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo presented by Zions Bank is excited to announce a special feature to the 2019 line-up of events – the Junior Days of ’47 Scholarship Challenge.

SALT LAKE CITY (May 22, 2019) – The Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo presented by Zions Bank is once again extending a qualification to compete at their $1 million rodeo to the 2019 College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR) Champions.

SALT LAKE CITY (May 3, 2019) – Another round of qualifiers have punched their tickets to the Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo presented by Zions Bank in Salt Lake City, July 19-24. The most recent groups qualified via Rodeo Corpus Christi, as well as from the Denver Rodeo All-Star event.

AUSTIN, TEXAS- World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) and the Days of ’47 Rodeo (DO47) are pleased to announce that for the first time in history the discipline of women’s breakaway roping will be featured at the Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo presented by Zions Bank. The five-day event will be held July 19-24 in Salt Lake City.

SALT LAKE CITY (April 2, 2019) – Caleb Bennett, a seven-time Wrangler NFR bareback rider, will be honored as the recipient of the 2019 Lewis Feild Bareback Riding Award at the Governor’s State of Sport Awards presented by Zions Bank and hosted by the Utah Sports Commission on April 10.

SALT LAKE CITY (June 5, 2019) – It was a busy weekend with 17 new contestants earning the opportunity to compete for a share of over $1 million at the Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo presented by Zions Bank in Salt Lake City, July 19-24. Cowboys and cowgirls earned spots based on their performance at the Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo and the World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) Titletown Stampede in Green Bay, Wis.

Photo courtesy of WCRA.

SALT LAKE CITY (May 10, 2019) – The Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo presented by Zions Bank is excited to announce an additional opportunity for timed event cowboys and cowgirls to qualify for the over $1 million Gold Medal Rodeo. This new gateway will be the Priefert Patriot Days of ’47, scheduled for July 20-21 at the Salt Lake County Equestrian Park in South Jordan, Utah. The Priefert Patriot will serve as the last chance qualifier into the Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo.

Due to athlete participation, World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) and The Days of ’47 Cowboy Games and Rodeo have mutually agreed to cancel the May 3-4 Utah Timed Event Classic (UTEC). To benefit all athletes, WCRA has given 51-100 on the leaderboard who had entered the UTEC, the opportunity for a full refund of their entry fees OR given the chance to roll their entry into the May 15-19 $500,000 WCRA Semi-Finals at the Lazy E in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Both the WCRA and Days of ’47 Cowboy Games and Rodeo

apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused athletes and fans.

SALT LAKE CITY (April 4, 2019) – A self-labeled “city boy” Garrett Lloyd of Woodland Hills, Utah, discovered the sport of rodeo a year ago and now he is all-in. The 19-year-old competed in football, wrestling, and track in high school and had some initial football scholarship offers, but a torn ACL took those offers off the table by the time he reached his senior year. Never in his wildest dreams did he think it would be a rodeo scholarship that would provide him an avenue to attend college, but that is exactly what is happening.

SALT LAKE CITY (March 26, 2019) – The Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo presented by Zions Bank in Salt Lake City has become a must stop on the summer rodeo schedule for contestants from the junior high level all the way to the pros of the sport. Not only does the $1 million-plus purse make it attractive but so does the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals awarded to the top three, setting this rodeo apart from any other rodeo in the world.