• some Australian rodeo (pictured) shows have been called Bushmen's Carnivals?

Facts on topics related to Australian rodeo

Equestrianism

• Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
• British equestrian Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games at the age of 59?
• Dzhigit is a reference to a skillful and brave equestrian in the Caucasus, and the derived term "Dzhigitovka" means the special style of trick riding, which originated in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and is also popular with Russian Cossacks?
• Elgin Gould, who recommended entrepreneurs build working-class communities serviced by streetcars on the outskirts of major cities, was killed in a horseback riding accident?
• Equine Hippique Canada, Canada's official equestrian federation, describes itself as a "little known and hardly recognized" entity, despite selecting the Olympic teams?
• Sabine Ehrenfeld, the Overstock.com spokesmodel, is fluent in German, French, English, and Italian and that she is an experienced pilot and equestrian?
• tent pegging is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation?
• Van Buren State Park in Ohio has family, large group, and equestrian camping areas, the latter with manure bins and picket lines?
• escaramuza is an equestrienne display of choreographed patterns that was established as the tenth official event of charreada in 1992?

Cowboy

• sonofabitch stew is a cowboy dish made with meats and organs from a freshly killed calf?
• the oddly-named Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas refers to the town having been a prohibition settlement in the 1880s that cowboys referred to as where the "saints roost"?

Melbourne

• 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne?
• Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) Henry Wrigley (pictured) piloted the first trans-Australia flight, from Melbourne to Darwin, in 1919?
• Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
• theater producer William May was inspired to create Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience (pictured) after watching cranes constructing the Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne?
• Frank Loughran played for the Socceroos at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, scoring a goal in the first game his adopted country of Australia ever played in Olympic soccer?
• Harold Clapp's "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
• Jimmy Melbourne, who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne, was the first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level?
• new evidence has revealed that Australian artist Tom Roberts painted much of his masterpiece Shearing the Rams on location en plein air, not in his Melbourne studio?
• the original specimen of the mauve splitting waxcap, a fungus from eastern Australia, found its way from Melbourne to Budapest but disappeared during the First World War?
• the National Gallery of Victoria only purchased Australian artist Frederick McCubbin's triptych The pioneer after he reworked the painting to add a view of the city of Melbourne in the background?

Bull riding

• Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo?