Queenslander Kurt Shephard crowned PBR Australian Champion

Queensland Country Life

Mareeba's Kurt Shephard emerged as the new PBR Australian Champion, finishing the season with an aggregate of 2,263.33 points and claimed the coveted $100,000 championship cheque.

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00:00This is running! Come on, come on!

00:15A lot of hard work in during the week this year for it to pay off.

00:19It's pretty cool.

00:20Last year I was coming here to watch Lockie and Bo

00:23and see Lockie's last ride.

00:25I was sitting there when Boston got called out to win.

00:32It was weird, I said to myself, that's going to be me next year.

00:35I just kept visualising that for it to finally happen.

00:39It was pretty awesome.

00:40Number one, my wife had a little boy born

00:42and lucky that I've had her to really look after him

00:46and allow me to keep training

00:48and keep being able to put in the effort and go away on weekends

00:51to chase this dream.

00:53Yeah, and then all her family too helping her

00:56and then all mine for their support since day one.

01:00It's been long.

01:02It's not just this year, I guess.

01:05It's been a lot of years that have led up to something like this.

01:08It's pretty cool.

01:09It's been a long time.

01:10It was a long time.

01:11It's been a long time.

01:12Two weeks later.

01:13It was a long time.

01:14Thank you so much.

01:15It has been a long time.

01:16And so this week we'll have to wait a while.

01:17.

01:19It's the first time you want it to be youtube.

01:22It's been a long time ago.

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