The National Western Stock Show is back in town.

Running through January 25^, the stock show began as a livestock and horse show in 1906. Over 100 years later, the stock show has endless amounts of events to go to, from rodeo to horse shows, and livestock shows.

Attend the event, and you may even get the chance to support a fellow Mustang.

Senior Austin Grazier competes in mounted shooting.

“I was on my first horse when I was four,” Grazier said. “When I turned 12 I was allowed to start competing with a gun, and I have been competing ever since.”

Grazier is the 2014 Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association AQHA Youth World Champion and took 4th overall at the 2015 NWSS Competition. This is his second year competing at the stock show and first year being a part of the Wild West Show.

Mounted Shooting is a competition made up of 4-6 stages.

The competitor must run through the pattern of 10 balloons as fast and accurately as he/she can. The times of each stage are added and the competitor with the fastest time wins.

However, for each balloon missed, a five-second penalty is added to the combined time.  Accuracy and speed are the name of the game.

Abby Menard, a sophomore, competes in Western Pleasure and Horsemanship. She has been riding since she was six. After riding English and jumping horses, she was looking for a change and switched to Western.

The hardest part about western pleasure and horsemanship “is having to sit still the entire time,” Menard said.

This is her first year showing in the stock show.

Mikaela Hawley participates in Westernaires.  She has been a part of Westernaires for eight years and is on the Red team.

“It is the highest team that you can reach,” Hawley said, “and you have to be asked and go through training to make it to that team.”

Hawley rides in high-speed precision mounted drill teams. One of which she and other riders run at each other in the dark, only wearing lights. This is her second year performing at the stock show, and she plans to perform next year.