MAN VERSUS BEAST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 September 1924, Page 9

MAN VERSUS BEAST.

Wl(!f DRAFTING CONTEST

WHIPS AND DOGS BARRED

BRISBANE, Sept. 12. Stockmen and horses tried their skill against bullocks in a drafting competition at Eslc yesterday. The competition was conducted on humane lines, neither whip nor dog boiog allowed to assist the stockmen. No beast was used more than once, and ti.i: run occupied 90 seconds. m which snerr, time the amnia’ had to be drafted over a course marked out and put through two posts representing the gat..- ox rails of a yard.

In such competitions as that conducted at- Esk, it is the skill of man and the training of the horse against the bullock, and very often the bullock wins and gets back to the mob. In the novice draft eight either beat the stockmen by getting back to camp or went through a gate in the paddock.

The horses knew their work well. There -were instances when a horse, with his shoulder pressed agaiust the neck of the beast, galloped along with him in an effort to turn him. He succeeded at times, but at others the beast kept on in dogged resolution until he got back into the mob. An adventurous fox terrier hopped in when W. Traill (on Glenore) was trying to put through his steer, and he proved a nuisance, turning the beast'just on the verge of his going through the final posts of the course. Despite the fox terrier, however, Traill won the event.