CAMPDRAFTING at the Warwick Rodeo might be sport but it is also a family reunion for twins Carol Kable and Melissa Southern.

Carol, of Rydal, near Bathurst, and Melissa, of Weengallon, were in the first eight riders in the C.G. Welding Ladies Campdraft yesterday.

They both entered two horses in the ladies, are married to campdrafters, each has three sons and their youngest sons are only one day apart in age.

All six boys have won rider classes at the Brisbane Exhibition; the oldest four are already campdrafting.

To say the Warwick Rodeo each year is a family reunion is an understatement.

The one difference yesterday was Carol received an early score on the course and Melissa's didn't.

Low scores were the order of the day early in the campdraft, with the sixth rider into camp, Springsure rider Toni O'Neill on Abdet, the first to record a score on course.

Carol scored 85 on Mary Poppins for the joint early lead, a horse ridden at home by sons Tom, 9, and Daniel 6. Her attitude is if the boys are safe on the mare, she should be too.

Her husband Nigel won the Condamine Bell Campdraft two weekends ago on Chevin Ivory and Carol reckons she just pinches his horses to compete.

"With the children, I haven't had the time to get young horses going," Carol said.

There is no one-sentence answer to why the mare is named Mary Poppins.

"I've been asked that question a thousand times," she said.

"The name just suited her, she knows what she is doing, I just sit there," Carol said.

The twins reckon competing in pony events on the show circuit is good experience for future campdrafters.

The thought that the twins, their husbands and six sons could one day all compete in the one Warwick Gold Cup is music to the ears of the twins.

"Wouldn't it be wonderful," Carol said.