Elite Open and WPRA Finals at the Elite Western Arena
The Elite Western Arena in Mount Pleasant hosts the Elite Open and WPRA Finals barrel race from Tuesday, November 10 through Sunday, November 15, 2026, six days of timed runs under cover, just minutes from the property.
Elite Open and WPRA Finals · Barrel Racing
Elite Western Arena · 938 County Road 1655, Mount Pleasant, TX
A multi-day barrel race that closes out the arena's competitive calendar, with Elite Open and WPRA divisions running under a covered arena. Check the arena's site for the full daily schedule and entry details.
If the acreage at County Road 1070 has you thinking about horses, this is the week to watch. The Elite Western Arena, a longtime Titus County barrel racing and roping facility at 938 County Road 1655, runs its year-end Elite Open and WPRA Finals from November 10 through 15, 2026. The event draws timed-event competitors from across the region for six days of barrel racing, and it is the arena's biggest late-season date. WPRA is the Women's Professional Rodeo Association, and this finals event is a chance to see the discipline at its competitive best without leaving Titus County.
The arena
The Elite Western Arena is a covered, climate-controlled equestrian facility with a 120 by 300 foot arena floor and roughly a thousand seats, which means the finals run in working conditions no matter what November weather does. The arena hosts barrel races, team ropings, ranch sorting, rodeos, and youth events through the year, and it keeps a regular Tuesday night barrel series called Turn N Burn during its active seasons. For anyone evaluating the property as future horse country, a midweek visit to a Turn N Burn Tuesday or a full week at the finals is a direct look at the equestrian economy that already exists just down the road.
The drive from the property
County Road 1655 runs through the country northeast of Mount Pleasant, a few minutes from County Road 1070 by way of local farm roads. The arena sits far enough out that the drive is all pasture and fence line, and close enough that a multiday event is easy to sample: come for an afternoon of finals one day, then come back for the weekend draws, or just drive by on a Tuesday to see the practice runs. For horse people, the useful fact is simple: one of the busier covered equestrian arenas in the region is a neighbor.
The property itself is set up for the same crowd that fills this arena. Three horse stalls, a large round pen, the arena, good perimeter fencing, and an agricultural exemption in place make it a working equestrian property, and an event like the Elite Open and WPRA Finals is a reminder of how much full-time horse activity revolves around Mount Pleasant. Whether you are buying for horses now or later, the local infrastructure is already here.
Plan a visit
Walk the barns, then catch a run at the arena.
See the stalls, the round pen, and the arena on this side of Mount Pleasant, then spend an afternoon watching how the county uses the arena down the road.
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