DENTON — Mules will be jumping and horses trotting during the second day of the Horse and Mule Days at Denton Farm Park.

About 8,000 people are expected to attend the fourth annual event. According to Karen Miller, one of the event’s coordinators, some 5,000 people attended last year.

Miller said that events like mule jumping attract more and more participants each year.

“It’s extraordinary,” she said. “People don’t get to see stuff like this every day.”

According to Miller, people have visited the event from all over the East Coast and as far away as Arkansas.

The festivities began Friday and will continue today until 7 p.m. Visitors will see plowing, harrowing and dragging demonstrations, as well as corn shucking, cross-cut saw contests and sawmilling.

The highlight of the day will be the mule, donkey and draft horse show, beginning at 1 p.m. Twenty-eight classes will participate in the show.

Admission is $5 for adults; $3 for children younger than 12; free for preschoolers.