Rodeo

waterfront of no lesser place than old New York City.

Longshoremen turn and stare at the unusual sight of Hoppy in California in their gala silver-studded Rodeo shaft, Riding down the broad, dirty streets, studying the warehouse fronts as they ride along.

Our train heads west in less than two hours, California.

We haven't much time to be paying social calls on your old girlfriend.

Ah, that's mighty nice of you, but we're leaving in less than two hours.

Our train is...

Oh, what? We've been with the Great West Rodeo at Madison Square Garden.

So close today.

That happens all the time.

Rodeo's a bad place for that.

Whoa.

The rodeo.

That's the difference you're making out there.

Now, the New Zealand – I never know how to say this because Winston Peters says – He says Rodeo, doesn't he? I always thought it was Rodeo.

But anyway, the season has begun without any signs of Winston Peters so far.

And it comes as there's a spotlight on the Rodeo or Rodeo industry and proposed changes to animal welfare codes.

That's right.

So the rodeo, as I say it, season kicked off in Winchester in South Canterbury, followed by a second event in Methven over the last weekend.

And boy, I've been hearing this for many years now around animal welfare codes and just protecting the animals, right? There's been some code changes?

They're looking at some code changes.

They're holding the rodeo in it now.

Oh.

or Rodeo, as they call it in Anaheim, Azusa, and

Cucamonga.

But, Don, isn't it wonderful to be broadcasting here from the city auditorium with an audience of 3,500 people?

Yeah.

Rodeo has been, I mean, everything really.

I played other high school sports, but little tiny town in Idaho, Chalice.

My dad rode bulls and my mom, she was the, well, she did all the events in high school, but she was also the queen and like very small town, small, you know, like everybody did every event anyway.

And the drive home sucked.

And I've thought about it for a week.

And I've not watched Rodeo the next week and been like mad.

But it was until a year or two ago when I started looking back at Manifar.

mind.

Winksy here, we were discussing last night, we had quickly caught up, you spent 30 years on the board and you were part of the early group that brought the Rectangle Rodeo Ring to Bolin in Queensland and you're the Southwest Rodeo President.

You're a bull rider, a pick-up.

you rode Juvenile Draft and you had a great horse, I believe, and his name was Michael, and you're a champion rider.

There might not be a few phone calls I could confidently make.

But no...

The main reason we were so fond of keeping Rodeo and Camp Duff going, we relied heavily on sponsorship and support to keep our health services active.

And the Flying Doctor's always been a very, very big part of southwest Queensland or western Queensland, saved a number of lives.