THE snorting, stomping masses of bovine muscle ready to make mayhem at Saturday's Merbein Community Rodeo are, believe it or not, "the quieter ones".

Veteran rodeo stock supplier and breeder Ron Woodall has been trucking bucking bulls around the nation for half a century, but says ill-tempered animals never make the trip.

"I've got to be able to work with them ... they've got to respect me," the...