There will be plenty of trickery during the specialty acts at this year’s Golden Spike Rodeo at the Box Elder County Fair as three experienced riders will put on a heart-pounding show. Haley Proctor and Madison Mac-Donald-Thomas, the duo behind Magic in Motion, are both top-notch equestrian athletes who will have audiences on the edge of their seats as they ride in the most unconventional ways at breakneck speeds—hanging sideways from their legs, dismounting and spring-boarding from the ground back to their mounts, Roman riding, or leaping through rings of fire standing tall on their steeds. MacDonald-Thomas has more than 24 years of experience performing across Canada, the United States and Mexico at world-famous events and rodeos. She began at age four when she got a pony. She competed in five events in junior high and high School rodeo, and made the Alberta Team competing at the Wrangler Jr. National Finals Rodeo and National High School Rodeo Finals. She was awarded Rookie of the Year and Canadian Reserve Pole Bending Champion honors. She has been selected as National Finals Rodeo contract act 10 times, and performed at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas beginning at age 18. She has also been named a top five contract acts in the PRCA five times. MacDonald-Thomas also competes as a WPRA barrel racer and in team roping.

Haley Proctor began trick riding at the age of four after begging her uncle—four-time NFR contract act Shawn Brackett—to teach her the trade. She did her first show when she was five and performed in her first PRCA rodeo at age 6, “and I never looked back,” Proctor said. “I was hooked!” Her passion for trick riding and performing grew when she had the opportunity to travel with the Great American Wild West Show to some of the greatest rodeo venues in the country. Proctor was nominated as top five PRCA Dress Act of the Year five times, was the 2007 World Champion Trick Rider, competed in the 2016 North American Trick Riding Championships in Las Vegas, and played a role and performed stunt work in the films Cowgirls and Angels, and Cowgirls and Angels 2: Dakota’s Summer.

Joining the fun will be 18-year-old Olivia Leininger, who has been trick riding since she was 13 after seeing a performance at a rodeo near her hometown.