![]() ![]() In 1930 Warwick, Queensland added the American-style contests of clowns, ropers and trick riders to its programme to promote more public interest. īushmen's Carnivals, the Australian equivalents of American rodeos, originated in Northern New South Wales in the 1920s and were well established by the 1930s. Following the success of the rodeo events at the Melbourne show the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales (NSW) planned an international rodeo for its 1935 Sydney Royal Easter Show and continued to invite international cowboys to its show. Melbourne staged a Wild West Show in 1934 which hired top Australian riders as well as a number of visiting cowboys. ĭuring 1927 a rodeo organised in Adelaide, South Australia attracted an estimated 50,000 spectators. Bullock and bareback riders were still permitted to use two hands at this stage. The equipment used by early roughriders consisted of a poley saddle or exercise pad, without stirrups or a crupper and a chest rein that ran from the girth to the rider's hand, leaving him without any control of the buckjumper's head. By 1930 the Great Depression left only a few of these travelling shows on the road. The travelling rodeos provided displays of riding bucking horses and bullocks, whipcracking, performing dogs and ponies and rope-spinning. In 1908 the Australian Buckjumpers Limited were formed and featured celebrated roughriders including Waite, Jack Dempster, Fred Morton and Cecil Miller. These shows increased the popularity of roughriding throughout much of Australia. Proprietors such as Thorpe McConville, plus the outstanding buckjump riders Lance Skuthorpe, Australian Indigenous roughrider Billy Waite, the Gill family, Bibby Bros and Colin McLeod ran travelling roughriding shows. They then toured England, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa and South America. Wirth's Wild West Show travelled Australia until the banks' crash in 1893. ĭuring the 1890s there were many Australian and some international Wild West shows travelling the country. The National Agricultural Society of Victoria ran one of the earliest recorded events in 1888, when a roughriding competition was held at their annual show. This competition arose from the stockman's skill in capturing feral or wild cattle. These events included competitions for roughriding and bullock-throwing which was accomplished by riding up to bullock, grabbing its tail and throwing it off balance and then tying its legs. Newspaper reports recorded public roughriding events that took place in Victoria during the 1880s. ![]() The term buck-jumping, as a regular activity involving horses, was in use in Australia by 1855. Rodeos have long been a popular competitor and spectator sport in Australia, but were not run on an organised basis until the 1880s. Photo taken shortly before Alan regained his seat and went on to make the required time. Alan Wood on the great bucking mare, Curio.
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