This exciting rodeo features Colorado rodeo champions vs rodeo champions of the world. The National Western Stock Show is back in Denver with near-record attendance for its opening weekend. The 118th annual Stock Show opened with 107,641 attendees at the event on Saturday and Sunday. The record for first-weekend attendance was set last year with 109,978. A Colorado tradition since 1906, the part-rodeo, part-livestock show and part-fair brings hundreds of thousands of people to the National Western Complex each year for a celebration of our state’s agricultural heritage. Read more: https://www.9news.com/article/entertainment/events/national-western-stock-show/stock-show-first-weekend-attendance/73-e9ed6971-b4a1-43e9-bb1d-a0a1e3086b0f