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HUB Event #2 -- Steer Wrestling SPEED STRENGTH & SKILL Steer wrestling is probably the most excit- attempting to direct the animal toward the ing event in the rodeo arena. When a man wrestler and his horse, drops from a galloping horse onto the steer, . Look closely and you will see that as the stops the steer, and throws him to the ground, steer is released from the chute he has a length spectators have seen skill overcome heavily of rope tied around his neck. The rope is as weighted odds. . long as the headstart allowed the steer and is The secret is this: As the cowboy catches tied together with a piece of light string that up to the steer he reaches with his right hand, breaks when the steer runs to the end of it. grabs the right horn in the crook of his elbow. This releases the barrier across the dogging At the same time his left hand pushes down on box. If the steer wrestler leaves the dogging the other horn while his horse veers off to the box before the barrier is released he breaks left. The cowboy's heels drop ahead of him barrier and receives a 10 second penalty added and at a 45 degree angle to the path the steer is to his final time, taking. The cowboy digs in his heels, twists the steer's head and pulls it toward the centre of a left hand turn. As the steer stops, his rear having having swung around, the cowboy grabs the animal's animal's nose with his left hand and, with this sensitive hold, throws the steer onto its side. There are two cowboys on horseback in this contest, although only one has paid the entry fee and must wrestle the steer. The second cowboy is called the " Hazer" and it is his job to assist the wrestler by running running his horse to the far side of the steer and For Advance Tickets And Information Please Phone 905-623-9998 or 1-800-861-0418 n Alison White The ambassador for Ontario's 1996 Rodeo Championships is a Rotary Australian exchange student. Even though she's never roped a calf and hasn't hasn't lived in Ontario very long, seventeen-year- old Allison White is fully prepared for her duties as rodeo ambassador. "My job is to speak on behalf of the Rotary and Kinsmen Clubs, promote Clarington and the rodeo and over 50 corporate sponsors" She',ll promote the event on radio and television television talk shows and appear at rodeo functions. Allison White is from the small town of Riverton, in South Australia -- population 900. She arrived in Clarington back in January on a year-long Rotary exchange program. This past summer, Alison got a real sense of Canada's size when she took a cross-country bus tour with 80 other exchange students. The tour took her to the Calgary Stampede as well at the famous west Edmonton Mall. If there's one thing Alison loves, it's shopping. shopping. And if she were shopping for a cowboy, she'd outfit him Australian style. Australian cowboys wear a "drizbone" or big oilskin jacket, moleskin pants, round-toed boots, a blue chambray shirt, and a unique flat-brimmed hat the Australians call an Akubra. "It's a special hat; they hang the corks from it to keep the flies away," says Allison. Dick Snider, Public Relations representative for the Rodeo Association Association agrees. It's definitely not the clothes that make the cowboy. "It isn't what you wear, or even what you think. It's in your attitude," attitude," Snider says. "Cowboys are the same all around the world. They're the friendliest people anywhere." anywhere." o RODEO CHAMPIONS There's only one jean and shirt endorsed by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the Canadian Pro Rodeo Association: Wrangler® TM durabni°y! < comfort The Western Original!' and fit. ras to the Rodeo and Take Your Best Shot We re looking for the best photo from this year s Ontario Rodeo Championships. There are plenty of prizes to be won and the Best Photo will appear in The Canadian Statesman. Look for more details about the Rodeo Photo Contest