violet skuthorpe was an outstanding lady roughrider, who in 1938, was invited to join the mccoy's wild west show in america and she (then 15) toured there along with her mother and brother lance, 19. also travelling with the show were three other australians, art creasy, jack watson and ron mcphee. violet was billed as the "world's champion lady buckjump rider" after the american tour. kitty gill, gladys gill and beryl riley were other notable lady roughriders. in 1947 the arra decided that women competitors should have their stirrups tied. it is estimated that there were about 20 to 25 women who regularly competing in about 1944 to 1951. later more there were more women competing as rodeos became more popular. nowadays the women's events consist of barrel racing, breakaway roping and steer undecorating. marie edwards won the abcra all-round cowgirl a record five times from 1988 to 1994.