ALAMOSA – For the second straight year, Monte Vista will be hosting a Bullfighters Only event on July 8 at 7 p.m. at the Ski-Hi Stampede rodeo grounds.
This year there will be nine bullfighters. They will compete in three pools of three fighters with the winner of each pool advancing to the championship round.
This year’s field features only one Colorado bullfighter in Colton Orcutt of Kersey. The rest of the field includes Alex McWilliams of Paso Robles, Calif., Cole Bates of Sky Valley, Calif., Colt Carlisle of San Saba, Texas, Connor Larrivee of Calgary, Alberta, Luke Ballard of Haviland, Nev., Tucker Lane of Oak Grove, Mo., Tyler Mansell of Caldwell, Idaho, and Weston Rutkowski of Haskell, Texas.
There are two judges as in regular rodeo and they will grade the bullfighter on a scale of 1-25 points, and the bull’s performance will also be graded on the same scale.
