SCOTT and Cara Champion have decades of experience training and breeding quarter horses.
The couple bring their experience to the Scenic Rim Agricultural Expo to show what they do to keep cattle where they need to be.
“The horsemanship demonstration will essentially be an introduction to cattle work and the basics of horsemanship,” Mr Champion said.
“We will do a series of demonstrations through the day that start off by showing a horse working the cattle.
“As we go through successive demonstrations, we show basic warm up exercises through to the demonstration on cattle again.
“There’s quite a bit going on there.”
The cattle the couple will use for the demonstration will all be Wagyu weaners.
“We will set up and arena that will be about 30 metres by 30 metres, and there will be grandstand seating and people will also be able to occupy standing room when they watch our demonstrations,” he said.
“(Cara) will be doing most of the demonstrations and I will be explaining the procedures using a microphone.”
The Champions will bring two horses to the exhibition.
“One is a young colt I rode at the NCHA Futurity this year and he showed himself very well,” he said.
“The other one will be an older horse we have been training for a number of years.
“He is more your thoroughbred type of horse, so it’s to give people an idea of how stock horses can handle the cattle as well as purebred quarter horses do.”
The Champion’s will demonstrate their skills in the hope those looking to do the same, can learn from them.
They will demonstrate what they call the ‘3C’s’ of communication with livestock which is confidence, competence and calmness.