{"id":315577,"date":"2026-08-06T22:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315577\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:30:46","slug":"rodeo-queens-help-open-sikeston-jaycee-bootheel-rodeo-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315577\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodeo queens help open Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">SIKESTON \u2014 Four rodeo queens representing communities across Missouri are taking part in the 74th Annual Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo, which continues through Saturday, Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Miss Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo Madison Fetters of Sikeston; Junior Miss Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo Hailey Yeager of Farmington; Miss Teen Rodeo Missouri Miley Phillips of East Prairie; and Miss Rodeo Missouri Madison Goetz of Springfield opened Rodeo Week on Aug. 1 by riding in the parade from the Sikeston Kindergarten Center to downtown Sikeston. The parade was followed by the first round of mutton bustin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Yeager, who is in her first year competing for a queen title, said fellow queens and rodeo participants have helped her learn the role. <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">For Fetters, the rodeo carries personal meaning because she grew up attending it each year. She said the rodeo includes barrel racing, bull riding, roping and bucking-horse events during four nightly performances. Mutton bustin\u2019 is also held each night, with finals set for Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIKESTON \u2014 Four rodeo queens representing communities across Missouri are taking part in the 74th Annual Sikeston Jaycee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,370,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-315577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}