No trip to NRG Stadium for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is complete without watching the mutton bustin' competition. Up late on a school night, 15 tiny tykes hit the stadium dirt atop a sheep ...

Jul. 15—Cooper McCarty of Mounds showed a lot of grit at Friday's mutton busting competition at Muskogee's Party Like it's 1776 celebration. You can see it all over his face and teeth. Mutton busting ...

Ten-year-old Texan Marlie McDonald has retired from mutton busting, having outgrown the sport. But in her time she could outride the best of them. Marlie’s exploits in the arena are documented in the ...

One of the most popular, and comical, events at the Greeley Stampede rodeo is the mutton bustin’. Each year the Greeley Stampede organization gets hundreds — yes hundreds — of names of kids ages 5-7 ...

GRIDLEY — Hold on to your muttons, and hold them tight. Cowboy and cowgirl trainees held on for dear life Saturday for a classic Mutton Bustin’ during the Bulls and Broncs rodeo, hosted by Rockin M ...

CHEYENNE — It’s never too early to get kids started in the rodeo world. At least that seemed to be the prevailing thought among the adults Tuesday evening at the Archer Complex arena. This ...

Twelve more intrepid mutton busters “rode the wool” Friday evening during the rain-delayed Dick Stull Memorial PRCA Rodeo. Some were quite successful, some less so, and one or two tried to combine ...

WHAT: Mutton Bustin’, rodeo event in which youngsters compete to see who can stay on a sheep the longest. WHEN: New Mexico State Fair Rodeo, 6:45 Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday. State fair hours are 10 ...

Children must be 5 or 6 years old to compete in mutton bustin' at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Credit: Photo by RodeoHouston The rules of the eight-second ride are simple: hold on for dear ...

Kids went for a wild ride — not at the carnival, but on sheep — during the Clark County Fair’s Mutton Bustin’ rodeo earlier this week. Kids ride sheep and hold on for as long as they can to win a ...

SAN ANTONIO — It isn't February in the Alamo City with going rodeo-in', and it isn't the rodeo in the Alamo City without Mutton Bustin'! Despite having never ridden a sheep beforehand, 7-year-old ...

The Tucson Rodeo this year is having an unusually hard time recruiting its youngest riders. Mutton busters, kids ages 4 to 6, start La Fiesta de los Vaqueros' pre-rodeo events, which begin at 12:30 ...