COWBOYS TO MOO-VE TRAFFIC IN RARE FORM.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Motorists traveling through downtown Lancaster this morning will encounter an usual sight: a cattle drive. Twenty steers herded by about 35 cowboys will amble amble a slower, non-racing version of pace gait in horses. broken amble has many characteristics of the amble but there are four beats to the gait with each foot contacting the ground independently. Called also single-foot. down Lancaster Boulevard starting at 10:30 a.m. in a promotion for this weekend's Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association Showdown rodeo at the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. . The cowboys include local equestrians, rodeo competitors, Antelope Valley Fair board members and even Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. . The drive starts in the Lancaster City Hall parking lot, runs east on Lancaster Boulevard, then north on Division Street to the fairgrounds. The boulevard and side streets will be closed to other traffic in segments as the cattle and riders move along, sheriff's Sgt. Gus Risinger said. ``We expect it to be over by 11:30 a.m.,'' Risinger said. Rodeo events started Friday evening and resume tonight at 7:30 p.m. Also going on today are a chili cook-off, with judging starting at 2:30 p.m., a horseshoe pitching contest, salsa competition and dance contest. The dance contest preliminary round begins at 4 p.m., with the finals during a 10 p.m. county-western dance following the rodeo. Miss Rodeo Lancaster will be crowned before the rodeo. |
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