After the riding, there will be a contest in the lassoing and tying down of wild steers, for which a prize of a silver hatband and spurs will be given by Don Andres Picardo, your host.

Also there will be the riding of bulls; and the prize for the most skillful rider will be a silver-mounted quirto of beautiful design.
"Immediately after these various contests"-- Dade could see the tensing of interest among his listeners then--"there will be a contest with riatas between Don Jose Pacheco and Senor Jack Allen, an Americano vaquero from Texas.

As the prize for this contest, Don Andres offers Solano, a gelding, four years of age and unbroken.

But Don Andres makes this condition: that the winner shall lasso his prize in this corral, and ride him before you all.

If he should chance to be thrown, then the prize shall be forfeited to the other contestant, who will also be required to ride the horse before you all.