Homestead Championship Rodeo
- About
2019 will mark the 70th year of the annual Homestead Championship Rodeo, a tradition that grew out of a group of seventeen founding members who wanted to showcase this unique western sporting event. It is one of the oldest annual professional sporting events in South Florida and the only PRCA Rodeo in Miami-Dade County. Our rodeo is one of nearly 600 sanctioned annually by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). The PRCA is the largest and oldest rodeo-sanctioning body in the world; ensuring that every event is managed with fairness and competence and that the livestock used is healthy and cared for to the highest standards.
- History
- The first ever Homestead Rodeo was held at Municipal Park on November 11, 1949. On February 1, 1952, the Homestead Rodeo Association was formed by seventeen original members; local businessmen who shared a love of horses and the excitement of the sport of rodeo. The new HRA presented its first rodeo in March of 1952. In November of 1952, the first rodeo was held in a new permanent rodeo arena; which was a five-acre tract just southeast of the ball fields leased from South Dade Farms. The HRA struggled to finance the rodeo through the early fifties, with members financing the organization out of their own pockets. In the mid-fifties, they decided to hold the rodeo only once a year & things began to prosper. The rodeo had now become a major event in the sleepy agricultural town of Homestead. The South Dade News Leader newspaper would publish a special rodeo section each year.
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