Yards and yards of flags and buntings are
coming out of the boxes and are being raised
to the rafters at the Will Rogers Coliseum.
Next week, the Fort Worth Livestock Show and
Rodeo comes to town.
Next October, decorations will be going up for
a brand new major livestock event for
the Coliseum.
The Appaloosa Horse Club's World Championship
show is coming to Fort Worth after being held
in Oklahoma City for the past 16 years.
Any time that you take a major horse show out
of a city with Oklahoma City's reputation
for hosting horse shows, it's like I said, a
very substantial coup for the city.
The stock show pulls thousands of people and
millions of dollars into the area.
The Appaloosa World Championship is expected to
do the same.
An official from the Appaloosa Club says it was
the new equestrian center with its
892 horse stalls that convinced club members to
switch from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth.
Joe Kelly says the new state-of-the-art
equestrian center with its horse stalls and
arenas is
such an incredible drawing card.
He just doesn't have to sell Fort Worth like he
used to.
All the major horse associations, they know
about the center.
They've all heard about it and they look
forward to hearing from the people from Fort Worth.
By 1990, Fort Worth expects to be hosting the
championship shows for three of the four
major western horse breeds.
Marion Conner, Channel 5 News, Fort Worth.