{"id":462723,"date":"2026-09-13T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462723\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:18:08","slug":"san-diego-rodeo-to-return-to-petco-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462723\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Rodeo to Return to Petco Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; The San Diego Rodeo will return to Petco Park during Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend this January for the fourth year, despite ongoing concerns about animal welfare and a 2026 event that saw some sponsors back away from the event.<br \/>The rodeo, presented in partnership with Outriders Present and Finest Collective, is scheduled from Friday, Jan. 15, through Sunday, Jan. 17. It will feature the world&#8217;s top rodeo athletes competing for $750,000 in prize money, culminating in Championship Sunday, when the winners are crowned.<br \/>Following the rodeo each night, there will be a drone show. Saturday will feature a DJ party with line dancing in Gallagher Square, and Sunday will feature a country concert at the same location.<br \/>Tickets for the rodeo and concert go on sale to the public Friday, Sept. 18, at 10 a.m. at <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.padres.com\/rodeo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.padres.com\/rodeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; The San Diego Rodeo will return to Petco Park during Martin Luther King Jr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[28582,70913,44043,63329,74,76,75,15432,14594],"class_list":["post-462723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-gallagher-square","tag-mlk","tag-petco-park","tag-rodeo","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-tickets","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}