The next go-round has finally come around for professional rodeo fans on the Grand Strand.

There will be buckin’ broncs, rank bulls, buckles, boots and chutes when the cowboys, cowgirls and rodeo clowns converge on Horry County for two days of roping and riding in June.

The Coastal Cowboy Pro Rodeo will be the first pro rodeo in Horry County in a decade, according to Michael Holmes, one of the organizers for the events slated for June 6-7 in the arena at the Lyman family farm at 5693 Westmoreland Road near Conway.

Gates will open at 5:30 p.m. each day, with the pageantry getting underway at 7:30 p.m., and competition beginning at 8 p.m. nightly.

The two-night stand will include competition in all of the rough-stock events — bull riding, bronc riding and bareback riding — and a variety of timed events to include team roping, calf roping and steer wrestling, as well as barrel racing and break-away roping for cowgirls. They’ll be competing for pride, points and cash prizes.

Bull riding is one of the most popular rodeo events, and the most dangerous, Holmes said.

“They’re on an animal that weighs almost 2,000 pounds,” he said. And that’s an animal that rides herd, and doesn’t like to be ridden.

It’s a rough and tumble sport.

“They’re athletes, not participants,” Holmes said, noting it takes a special breed to cowboy up and withstand the rigors of the rodeo circuits.

Holmes said the Coastal Cowboy Rodeo will add $10,000 to the purse, over and above standard participation outlays, in order to attract some of the better competitors for the events sanctioned by the Southern Rodeo Association and International Pro Rodeo Association.

Every point earned in competition counts in the bid for championship buckles awarded by the sanctioning bodies.

Local rodeo organizers will also feed the participants, providing a premium experience they don’t always get on the southern rodeo circuit.