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LINCOLN — Shania Down- ing, 16, daughter of Shane and Angelina Downing, of Farmington, concludes her stint as Lincoln Riding Club Junior Queen this week by helping preside over the 2021 Lincoln Rodeo. Shania will be a sopho- more at Farmington High School. Shania aspires to become an Equine Nutri- tionist when she grows up. Her horse Ace was born and raised on the family farm; he is a 13-year-old American Quarter Horse bay gelding whom she puts all her trust in. Shania has numerous interests which include running barrels, poles, roping and the sport of rodeo as well as a member of the Arkansas Fillies Drill Team. She has been actively involved in Future Farmers of America, Family Career and Community Leaders of America, and National Junior Honor Society. Shania is highly active in her church, Cowboy Corner Post Church of Siloam Springs. "I believe that when you put your faith in God you can achieve anything you set your mind to," Shania said. As Miss Lincoln Riding Club Junior Rodeo Queen, she has endeavored to repre- sent in her words, "the great sport of rodeo and all the dedication it takes to become a great competitor." "Rodeo is a true American sport that teaches values such as integrity, respect and hard work. These are the same values that my parents raised me with," Shania said. Throughout her reign as LRC Junior Queen, Shania tried to share these values and educate the younger generation how important it is to be dedicated to their goals and dreams. LRC recently congrat- ulated Shaina on being selected as sophomore class secretary and thanked her for all her hard work helping promote rodeo. 2B Enterprise-Leader Wednesday, August 11, 2021 R o d e o Welcome to the 68 th Annual Lincoln Rodeo! Washington County Farmers Mutual I N S U R A N C E Company FARM • HOME LIABILITY Fayetteville, AR 479-442-2612 washingtonins.net SERVING ARKANSAS SINCE 1922 Queen's Reign Wraps Up LINCOLN — Elaina Knight, 20, daughter of Ron and Donna Knight, of Van Buren, concludes her year-long reign as Lincoln Riding Club Queen by presiding over the 68th annual Lincoln Rodeo this week. According to her bio, this cowgirl's in a sprint to become a patrol officer for the Crawford County Sher- iff 's Office. Elaina was a former Old Fort Days Dandie and has been riding horses most of her life. Elaina did not start competing until she was 14 years old on her 17-year-old short one-eyed paint named Kate. Elaina has two other horses as well. Dudley is the horse she uses for queening competitions and Diva is the mount that she runs barrels on. With so many irons in the fire, this cowgirl's needed a little help along the way and her dad, Ron Knight, quietly makes a lot of contributions behind the scenes in her rodeo career. According to Elainia, he likes to call himself her PR man, a role that required improving his photography skills. "Let's just say he wasn't t h e b e s t p h o t o g ra p h e r before I started competing in rodeo pageants and we are still learning," Elaina stated in a Father's Day trib- ute posted on social media in June. She credits her dad as always being one to help her with the horses and if she forgets to do something he's quick on the follow-up, doing what she's overlooked. She gratefully acknowledged benefitting from a personal manager who works for free. Elaina has won multiple local barrel racing series awards. In 2018, she won Reserve Champion in West- ern Pleasure for Crawford County. In 2019, Elaina was first runner-up for Arkansas State Fair Livestock Queen and won Miss Congeniality. Elaina has held two other titles so far which were 2016 Miss Teen Holiday and 2019 Miss North Franklin County. W h e n E l a i n a i s n o t working or riding horses she loves to go hiking and working out. In high school Elaina received the Arkan- sas Scholars Scholarship, The Pointer Pride Scholar- ship, and was inducted into the National High School Scholars. Elaina's dad was a professional cowboy in his day so rodeo has always been a huge part of Elaina's life. Junior Queen Takes One More Ride MARK HUMPHREY ENTERPRISE-LEADER Shania Downing, 16, daughter of Shane and Angelina Downing of Farmington, won the 2020 Lincoln Riding Club junior queen title and will help preside over the 68th annual Lincoln Rodeo. Princess Completes Dream Season LINCOLN — Paisley Teague, 8, daughter of Andy and Tonya Teague, of Siloam Springs, always wanted to be in a rodeo and her dream came true a year ago. Paisley won the 2020 Lincoln Riding Club Prin- cess title at last year's rodeo and will help preside over the 68th annual Lincoln Rodeo Thursday through Saturday at the LRC Arena, one mile west of town, as she completes her dream season. Paisley attends Siloam Springs schools and will be a fourth grader this fall. When Paisley grows up, she aspires to be a school nurse. Paisley's horse is named Jazz and he is 23 years old. She has been riding Jazz for five years now. Paisley competes in Siloam Springs Riding Club play days and Element Christ Riders play days where she won Reserve C h a m p i o n A l l -A r o u n d for two years. Paisley is extremely active other than just riding. She enjoys travel softball with her team, the Prospects 8 & under. Paisley also enjoys dance, basketball and was extremely excited to try volleyball last year. She was chosen to play in the Arkansas State Soft- ball Tournament. Paisley is an ambassador for the Arkansas Children's Hospital and enjoys promoting having healthier children in Arkan- sas. Paisley enjoys rodeo because they can all go as a family together. MARK HUMPHREY ENTERPRISE-LEADER Paisley Teague, 9, daughter of Andy and Tonya Teague of Siloam Springs, won the 2020 Lincoln Riding Club princess title and will help preside over the rodeo. MARK HUMPHREY ENTERPRISE-LEADER Elaina Knight, 20, daughter of Ron and Donna Knight of Van Buren, won the 2020 Lincoln Riding Club queen title and will preside over the Lincoln Rodeo. 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Pres- ident Jimmy Jetton and vice president Mike Madewell have years of experience running the Lincoln Rodeo and developed a tremen- dous amount of hands-on expertise in organizing and conducting the show. This week, rodeo fans and the community bene- fit from all the hard work they put in as the Lincoln Rodeo combines rip-roar- ing rodeo action along with side-splitting comedy from rodeo clown Ty "Stormin' Norman" Stewart to keep fans entertained. Veteran announcer Brandon Wren will emcee the rodeo. "This year we've done quite a few upgrades. We've spent $9,000 to put new lights in the arena. It's a lot brighter in here. It will be like daylight out here in comparison to the way it has been," Jetton said. "We try every year to make a few more improvements to keep us going." Those looking for photo opportunities can get into prime position to capture unique rodeo moments with junior cowboys all duded up along with adorable junior cowgirls displaying their finest hats, boots, spurs and smiles during the 2021 Lil' Mister and Lil' Miss contest ongoing throughout the week. Fans of all ages can further hone their social skills by attending the street dance at the Lincoln Square dancing to live music by the Boston Mountain Playboys from 8 to 11 p.m. on Wednesday. Concessions are available to curb the appetite and whet the whistle. Even old-timers amble out onto the street to shake a leg at the street dance and everywhere one looks folks can be seen generally having a good time. Thursday night is "Family Night" and kids ages 6-10 get in for $3 while military and first responders pay only $5 by showing proper identifi- cation. General admission tick- ets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids 6-10 on Friday and Saturday. Ages five and under are free. O n T h u r s d a y, r o d e o competition erupts in the Lincoln Riding Club arena with stock provided by Big Horn Rodeo Company, of Lamar, Oklahoma. The rodeo is sanctioned by American Cowboys Rodeo Associa- tion and the International Professional Rodeo Asso- ciation with money earned during the event counting in the standings for both associations. Events include: steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle bronc, team roping, bareback riding, cowgirls barrel racing, calf roping and cowgirls breakaway roping. Rodeo competitive events for junior cowboys and cowgirls are junior barrels, 15 and under and peewee barrels, 8 and under. Young- sters can also participate in a calf scramble and nightly mutton busting beginning at 7 p.m. followed by the stickhorse grand entry at 7:30 p.m. Each nightly rodeo perfor- mance begins with a grand entry at 8 p.m. A negative coggins is required for horses participating in the grand entry. New for 2021 are nightly trick riding and trick shoot- ing performances by Sophie Duch. The grand entry kicks off the rodeo again at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday. Satur- day also has a parade start- ing at the Lincoln Riding Club Arena just west of town on U.S. 62 with parad- ers lining up at 4 p.m. The parade begins at 4:30 p.m. traveling into town and around the town square, which is two blocks north of U.S. 62 downtown and can be reached by turning onto Main Street. By Mark Humphrey ENTERPRISE-LEADER MARK HUMPHREY ENTERPRISE-LEADER Abbott Pitts, son of Seth and Alyssa Pitts, entertains himself during a recent Lincoln Riding Club Play Day. This week's 68th annual Lincoln Rodeo is a family friendly event featuring rodeo performances Thursday through Friday at the LRC Arena one mile west of town on U.S. 62 plus a bunch of other rodeo related activities including Wednesday's street dance on the Lincoln Square downtown and the 2021 royalty pageant ongoing throughout the week. 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