Why Rudi McEwin put figure-skating on ice and cantered into campdrafting

When Rudi McEwin opens her wardrobe, she sees a sugar-plum fairy ice-skating costume side by side with dirt-stained, faded, blue jeans and well-worn, button-up collared shirts that she wears campdrafting.

The costume is a child's pink leotard and reminds her of the years when she would pull her hair up into a bun, stick on fake eyelashes and paint her face with makeup.

It's a different look from her style while campdrafting — a unique Australian sport involving a horse and rider working to manoeuvre cattle around a set course in under 40 seconds.

"I do feel like a different person," Rudi, from Adelaide, says.

"If you looked at me at a campdraft covered in dust with dirt across my face, you wouldn't necessarily marry that with the prim and proper little figure-skating girl.

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Article written by: Victoria Ellis