Family side of sport to the fore at Warwick Rodeo
HORSE POWER with Gerard Walsh
IT'S one day until the start of the Melbourne Cup of campdrafting and most famous rodeo in Australia.
The first action is at 6am Monday in the campdrafting.
There will be around 2000 horse-and-rider combinations in action in first rounds.
The four national campdraft associations will battle it out for supremacy on Thursday with the best lady rider added this year to make six per association for the challenge.
There is free admission to the showgrounds for the first three days of action and plenty of shady vantage points around the grounds to watch.
Three hundred volunteers will be helping out, what an outstanding effort by the people who make it happen,
Family side of rodeo
THE first of the rodeo action will be on Thursday night with round 1 of the Warwick Rodeo APRA National Finals.
The other rounds are on Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon.
One of the combinations in team roping will be Warwick father-and-son Jeff and Kobe Miller.
Both are ranked in the top 15, Jeff has won many Australian Professional Rodeo Association open titles and Kobe is a junior title winner.
In team roping, the key is just to get a catch and a score.
The other Warwick rider in timed events is Mitch Eastwell in the rope and tie.
He has form in the national finals after winning round 2 last year.
