CAMPDRAFTING: As riders eye off the start of second round action in the Warwick Rodeo and Campdraft today, Nebo rider Pete Comiskey is convinced of one thing, "the cattle at this year's event are the best he has seen”.

He started off in the two major drafts in Warwick with an average score of 88.2 from five head.

In his first six of 15 runs in round 1 of the two major drafts, he had two scores of 88 and one of 87 in the Black Toyota Canning Downs Campdraft and two of 89 and one of 87 in the Pryde's EasiFeed Warwick Gold Cup.

Two of his top scores, 89 in the cup and 88 in the Canning Downs, were on 12-year-old mare Reba, owned by Lisa Ryan, of Mackay.

Out of his 15 entries, he has qualified six horses for round 2 of the Canning Downs and five for the cup second round.

Of all his second round horses, he rates the two rides on Harry as two of his best chances for glory. He scored 89 in both drafts on Harry after going down in a run-off on the same horse in the recent Condamine Bell Campdraft. Harry is owned by Ken and Christina Tagg, of Ebor.

Comiskey lives on Westpoint Station at Nebo in north Queensland and has five wins in Warwick, the Warwick Gold Cup in 2005 and two successes in the Canning Downs and Frasers Livestock Stallion drafts.

He has been coming to Warwick since 1986 and early in the Gold Cup tipped a rider might need three 91s to win after high scores were needed to win at Condamine and Chinchilla in the lead-up drafts.

Ninety was the score of the leading bunch in the Gold Cup rounds.

"These are the best cattle I have drafted which makes for a more even contest,” he said.

"The Warwick surface is as good as ever.”

Comiskey rode Paris to equal second in the Grandfather Clock Campdraft at Chinchilla behind his brother Steve.

He remembers coming to Warwick for the first time at age eight.

"My father Peter competed in Warwick from 1964 to the early 2010s and is here to support us,” he said.