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New winners showcase growing strength and depth of the campdraft circuit
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (517+ words) The third annual Ray White Rural Gracemere CQ Performance Horse Sale and Campdraft was held at Paradise Lagoons, Rockhampton last weekend, attracting an impressive line up of competitors and supporters. Former Australian Campdraft Association (ACA) 22 times Champion Open Rider, Pete…...
Not even flooding could stop Tooloombilla's bottler of a rodeo and campdraft
2+ week, 2+ day ago (169+ words) The stalwart crew that organise the annual Tooloombilla Rodeo and Campdraft were up against it this year, thanks to both the weather and events halfway across the world, but they turned on another bottler for everyone who rocked up to…...
CQ cattleman hits jackpot with bay filly, Sheza Alibi, purchased online
2+ week, 3+ day ago (798+ words) While Central Queensland cattle producer Fred Noffke has only been buying racehorses "for a bit fun" for the past five years, his online purchase of Sheza Alibi has the Australian racing industry abuzz. So good is she that there's talk…...
'Yellowbelly swimming in the chutes': Stonehenge rodeo back to bucking bulls
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (429+ words) The feed on the higher country around Stonehenge, in the middle of Queensland's Channel Country, has dried to the familiar wintery straw yellow colour, but the wide floodplain leading to the town's rodeo arena is full of green pick, an…...
QCL 90: What happened to the cattle camp kids learning the ropes?
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (516+ words) Ever since Heidi Silvester, Forest Hills Brangus, Capella, was a toddler, she has attended one particular cattle camp in central Queensland. Starting when she was only three, Heidi, who is a Year 11 boarder at the Cathedral College Rockhampton, said she…...