Application deadline

Full applications for royalty are due October 31, 2025.

Tryout dates

Garfield County Fairgrounds
Mondays, November 3, 10 and 17, 2025
6 – 8 p.m.
Tentative tryout schedule subject to change

Contestants set up their horses, grooming products, and tack in assigned areas
● Welcome to contestants, their families, friends & spectators
● Introduction of coordinators, Fair Board members, and judges
● General announcements and schedule procedures
● Contestant introductions
● Written test will be taken at the beginning of the contest. Each contestant will be escorted to the judges, one at a time, for their interviews, speeches, and questions. Once they have finished, they will be allowed to return and complete their written test.
● Personal interview
● Speeches
● Impromptu questions (2-3 minutes maximum)
● Horsemanship (one-handed control of horse required)
● Group grooming, location specified later
● Pattern
● Hot lap
● Flag carrying

During any part of the contest, parents/guardians and other adults are spectators only and contestants need to ask judges if they need parental assistance. Parents/guardians are to remain in the grandstands or horse trailers until notified or until permission is granted from the judges.

Sincerely,
The Garfield Board of County Commissioners
The Garfield County Fair & Rodeo Fair Board members
The Garfield County staff