Animal activists are calling for rodeos to be banned in recent Zealand,but cowboys say bull-riding is their callingTrigger Happy and Honey Badger are being loaded into the chute as Chad Ormsby slides his feet into a battered pair of leather cowboy boots. Currently main the table, the rodeo star is eight seconds absent from being crowned national bull-riding champion of recent Zealand; but first there’s the ride.
“The first time I got on – I can still remember it now – it is just like a drug addict taking a hit, and ” said Ormsby,28, a horse trainer and former jockey from Lake Karapiro. “Somehow it gets inside your blood and you just want to do it every day if you can. I portray it as being the best drug in the world – and it’s legal.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk