Mini-bulls are usually Dexter, Lowline or Zebus and must conform to an industry height specification of no more than 122cm high. Responding to the growth of popularity in miniature bull riding on the circuit for junior competitors aged 6-14 years of age, the Lamonts picked up three new bucking boys from the Malanda High School Lowline stud while they were in town. Leslie and Rebecca started breeding rodeo bulls six years ago and their team of 43 bovine athletes now supply the big Mareeba Rodeo and the Great Northern Bullriding Series, including the event’s Atherton 2022 final last weekend.Įstablished stars like “Blackjack”, grandson of American star and three-time Professional Bull Riders (PBR) World Champion Bull “Little Yellow Jacket” and the never successfully ridden “Springloaded”, have recently been joined by some new squad members. A bit of bush auto-electric work soon had the crisis resolved and their team of bulls delivered in time. With just a couple of hours left to get their winch working properly and their team of bucking bulls loaded, shifted, unloaded and penned up ready for their night's work, it was action stations for the Lamont contracting team.īut as an ex-rodeo competitor himself, with his own “cupboard full of ABCRA All-Round Cowboy buckles” at home, Leslie is used to the pressure involved in the sport.

Unfortunately, their road train’s electric winch on the ramp of their double decker crates had chosen that moment to chuck it in. The superior cattle facilities at Malanda, meant they had unloaded and rested their bulls there before carting them on to Atherton for Saturday’s event. Leslie and Rebecca Lamont of the 106,000 hectare Hyde Park Station, 220km south of Charters Towers were flat out at the Malanda Showgrounds, feeding, watering and getting ready to reload the stars of that night's show.

Raising bulls for bull riding