Bell Rodeo

A good crowd was on hand to appreciate the efforts of the competitors.

Snow Timms Bulls and Barry Halls broncs certainly held the upper hand and kept putting the riders down. Bareback made a welcome return and exciting display for Bell.

Numbers were down in the open bullride (12), 15 for the juvenile bulls, the barrel racers were up to 23, 13 in the saddle broncs, 7 in the bareback.

There was plenty of action from the rough stock provided by local supporters.

Timm’s bulls seemed to own the ring andtook their own time to leave the arena.

Chinchilla Melon Rodeo

Went to the Rodeo – I’d say it was a success… full crowd, running to time, good action

44 open bull riders,

21 novice bulls,

9 junior bull,

20 barrel racers,

28 saddle broncs

The result for the night was :- Bulls and Broncs up and Cowboys down.

Stock provided by Campbell Frahm, Stuart Timms and Rick Knudsen had the crowd in awe (even Kimberley and Alistair from Creek to Coast) and the cowboys holding onto the seats of their pants. the Bull fighters were definitely getting plenty of exercise. It looked as if a couple of bulls were asking the question “DO YOU WANNA HAVE A GO! COME ON! YOU WANT SOME OF THIS? “ They showed who’s the boss!

Aaron Ryan as M.C. with his anecdotes, commentary and interaction with Organiser Danny Gleeson kept the crowd entertained. Volunteers were to the fore on the day too.

Danny Connolly took out the open bull ride.

Will try to catch up at Bell on the 27th. bye

Tori Darke… delicious, Larry Cann….. out of breath, Pink is the New Black, Brian Duggan Bulls….. vicious, CMC horses….. high flyers going shake rattle and roll and the limestone cowboy had the kids and mothers laughing.

The 3500 in the crowd certainly got their money’s worth and were entertained from the poddy rides, barrel races right through to the bulls.Using Larry’s term of hamburger – there was no hamburger in the arena, but they were trying their best to make mince meat of the riders.

The new siting looks good for future expansion and the area allowed the broncs to wind up.