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Foreword

X N THE immediate future, I will assume complete charge of the Baker Ranch
Rodeo. Messrs. Roy Baker and Bob Anderson have together brought this annual
event from its inception to its present success and deserve to be congratulated.
It is my earnest aim and ambition to take up their reins and make of it the biggest
and most spectacular thing of its sort in the entire world.
Next year I plan to imprnve the Baker Ranch Rodeo in every pos.sible way. There
will be bigger money prizes. The best riders in the world will be on hand to compete
for world's titles. There will be more spectacular races, more hazarc!ous stunts and a
show that will be faster and more exciting than any ever attempted heretofore.
This ranch will co-operate with the Pendleton Round-Up, Calgary Stampede,
Cheyenne Frontier Days, Chicago Rodeo, Madison Square Garden, Salinas and other
great rodeos, to bring to California and the West Coast the very finest riders and horses
in the world. Winners of events at these-. shows will be particularly invited to Baker
Ranch to participate for greater cash prizes than-ever offered here previously.
Not only do I promise greater spectacles anc! more thrills but every effort will be
bent to provide for the greater comfort of spectators. There will be three new paved
roads leading to this, ranch next year. The stadium will be enlarged, covered and
made more comfortable. Every convenience and aid to the pleasure of the man in the
audience will be anticipated and coped with.
An airport adjoining the stadium will provide a landing field for private and com-
mercial planes, placing the Baker Ranch Rodeo within five minutes of Los Angeles
and within easy flying distance of cities throughout the West and Middle West.
Suggestions for the betterment of this annual event will be appreciated. Particu-
larly do I invite ideas for a name that may become as world familiar as are such titles
as "The Pendleton Round Up" and "Calgary Stampede." Such suggestions, mailed to
me in care of Baker Ranch, Saugus, California, will be treated with every courtesy.
Here is to a bigger ancl better rodeo in 1931. I trust today's offerings pleased you
and promise that next year there will be much more in the way of thrills and excitement.
HOOT GIBSON.