Tup Forge at Oxley is Ranch Bronc national champion

Oxley’s Tup Forge only started riding bucking horses at rodeos eighteen months ago, but now is the national champion, and has her sights set on the world.

Tup Forge holds the title of 2025 Australian Women's Ranch Bronc Champion. Tup works as a farm hand on Forges farm and is pictured here with with her dads horse named Fox. Pictures: Zoe Phillips

Riding a bucking horse for eight seconds at a rodeo is not for the faint of heart.

But for Oxley’s Tup Forge, it’s a sport in which to find great success, without any apprehension.

The 28-year-old was earlier this month awarded the title of 2025 Australian Women’s Ranch Bronc Champion, only 18 months after her first training.

“I saw a couple of girls doing it on Instagram, and thought that’d be a bit of fun. And I fell in love with it straight away, and entered my first rodeo not long after that,” she said.

Tup only began the sport eighteen months ago.

Since then, Tup has spent the past 12 months travelling around Australia competing in more than 20 rodeos, only failing to meet the eight-second requirement in a single event, and was awarded the national title at Dungog in New South Wales.

As a result, Tup will be taking her talents overseas to Cheyenne, Wyoming in the United States in July to compete at the World Championships, and is hoping to find some sponsors for the trip.

“My new goal is to become world champion. That would be pretty cool. I’m not actually sure (what my goal will be) after that.”

“It’s not a very well known sport, but there’s more and more girls wanting to come on board which is great. We’re sort of encouraging as many as we can at the moment.”

Tup riding her Australian Stock Horse named Done Deal with Hereford cattle.

Outside of competing, Tup spends her time working as a farm hand at her family farm at Oxley, where she has broken in a few horses, and “hopped on some rougher ones”, preparing her well for her rodeo career.

“I did some time up north for a while, and then I’ve come back here and planted my feet at home. We run a beef breeding property, so just cattle work and on horses all the time,” she said.