Will Rogers Memorial Center Archives

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Industry Updates

Horses found refuge at Will Rogers Memorial Center after severe storms in Oklahoma

Barn crews at Will Rogers Memorial Center prepped 600 stalls in 48 hours for American Paint Horse Association early arrivals from Tulsa. “Help! We need to arrange an early check-in […]

Current News

NCHA Location Conversation: Members to Weigh In On Possible Investment

At the 2022 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Convention, the NCHA announced that the City of Weatherford had approached the association with an idea. Since then, NCHA has been carrying […]

Current News

Will Rogers Memorial Center Promotes New Events Manager

Throughout the year Will Rogers Memorial Center is home to many premier equestrian events including the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity, the National Reined Cow Horse Association Worlds Greatest Horseman, […]

Other News

Cattle Escape Will Rogers Complex, Enter Fort Worth Cultural District

A group of loose cattle that escaped from holding pens at Will Rogers Memorial Center Tuesday night entered the city of Fort Worth's Cultural District, officials say.

Reined Cow Horse News

Spectators Allowed at 2020 Snaffle Bit Futurity

Spectators will be allowed at the 2020 National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) Snaffle Bit Futurity. There will be social distance and capacity restrictions.

Cutting News

NCHA Hall of Famer John Tolbert Dies at age 64

John Tolbert, 64, died Tuesday morning in his sleep at home in Greenville, Texas, friends of the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Hall of Famer confirmed. Before induction into the […]

Features

Will Rogers Memorial Center a Shrine to Love and Friendship

Progress being what it is, a new arena was a long overdue need for a city of Fort Worth growing out of its blue jeans. Fortunately for the Western performance […]

Features

Two of a Kind: Will Rogers and His Horses

Over the last 100 years, there really is no equal to Will Rogers when you calculate the sum of his parts as a stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, humorist […]

Joe Heim and Docs Okie Quixote at the 1984 Super Stakes

Features

Docs Okie Quixote a Superfly Gent if there ever was one

If anybody had any doubts about Docs Okie Quixote, the National Cutting Horse Futurity Association Futurity champion only months earlier, those were all erased when he followed it up with […]

Cutting News

Ron Malone was an Attorney by Day, Cowboy Forever

In the archives of Ron Malone’s most excellent adventure called life is a treatise authored for the Santa Clara Law Review by a young up-and-comer with 40 years of lawyering […]