Ancient City Pro Rodeo brings household enjoyable to sellout crowd throughout St. Augustine debut

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The Ancient City Pro Rodeo made its debut in St. Augustine this previous weekend, drawing massive crowds and promoting out each days of the occasion.

The rodeo provided a wide range of conventional rodeo occasions and loads of family-friendly actions.

Jade Kitaif, second-generation common supervisor of J.C. Kitaif Pro Rodeos, stated the occasion featured all of the traditional rodeo competitions comparable to bareback using, steer wrestling, and crew roping.

“We really pride ourselves, we’ve been in the rodeo business for 27 years, putting on rodeos all across the southeast,” Kitaif stated. She added that most of the bull riders competing have been to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, highlighting the excessive stage of expertise current.

Dan Laubacker, president of Ancient City Land Management, expressed amazement on the turnout.

“With what we saw with this first response last night, it was just — it blew our minds. Like I said, last night was a dream. It was something we never expected,” he stated.

Laubacker additionally shared the imaginative and prescient behind the property internet hosting the rodeo, which they bought in 2020. “We want to take this agricultural property and really kind of transform it into a kind of an epicenter of agricultural and event-type communities. Our big thing is we’re really family-oriented.”

The Ancient City Pro Rodeo weekend provided a singular mix of conventional rodeo pleasure and group enjoyable, making it a memorable expertise for attendees of all ages.