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Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. is honored to welcome Justin and Sarah Sunbury, who have graciously stepped up and offered to run our Old Timers Reunion! This event is a traditional highlight of the World’s Oldest Rodeo® week, which runs from June 29 through July 5, 2026.
Justin and Sarah Sunbury, your Old Timers Reunion hosts! Photo courtesy of the Sunbury family.
This year we will be trying something new! We are inviting old timers (anyone who competed in the Prescott Rodeo), honorary champions, and rodeo queens of the 6’s. Anyone who won at the Prescott rodeo in any year ending in 6 will be honored and recognized during the lunch and Sunday matinee rodeo performance on July 5th.
Date: Sunday, July 5th, 2026
Time: Doors open at 11:30 am; lunch is from 12:00 to 1:00 pm; rodeo is 1:30 pm
Place: Prescott Frontier Days
Freeman Building
840 Rodeo Drive, #D
Price: No cost for lunch to old timer/champion and 1 guest; option to buy additional rodeo ticket for $40
The Old Timers Reunion was created in 1983 by World’s Oldest Rodeo legend Danny Freeman to honor and recognize former champions and royalty during one performance of the rodeo. Old Timers were defined as cowboys who competed at the Prescott rodeo in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. The first year it was limited to those who lived in Yavapai County or close by in Wickenburg or New River. Eleven came and enjoyed themselves and spread the word around, five years later twenty-six showed in 1987. In 1988 the invitation was opened to the world if they participated in the Prescott rodeo with an original cutoff date of 1950. The list started from known contestants to over a hundred names; the current requirements are the contestants must have participated in the Prescott rodeo forty years or more in the past.
Rodeo family enjoys the popular 2025 Old Timers Reunion. Photo courtesy of Blushing Cactus Photography.
If you were a competitor in the Prescott rodeo or won during the years ending in 6’s (1956, 1966, 1976, 86, 96, 06, 16, 26) and have not received an email or mailed letter, please email Justin at justinsunbury@gmail.com
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