"It was a very successful weekend," Mr Hukins said. "We had a lot of support from the town and were able to welcome a lot of people that haven't campdrafted here before."

The Candelo Showground was a hive of activity on Saturday and Sunday with about 600 individual rides scheduled for the weekend, where Mr Hukins said there were enormous numbers of visitors and spectators enjoying the competition.

"We had incredible feedback, particularly about the Showground, because it's a wonderful natural amphitheatre and no matter where you're sat you get a wonderful view of the campdrafting," he said.

"Everything we heard [from visitors] was positive right across the board."

He also praised the riders who enjoyed the weekend, which ran injury free.

"The standard of campdrafting was very high as far as we were concerned," Mr Hukins said. "We didn't have any incidents for the weekend.

"We had the first aid guys on the hill, but there were no major concerns and all the cattle went back with no injuries too, so we were very pleased with the outcome for the whole weekend."

The challenge in the arena was varied too with a variety of cattle donated by local farmers.

"Some are dairy heifers and some are beef cattle and they have a very different temperament, so you can get big differences in how they behave which added a wonderful challenge.

"We're very fortunate to have terrific support from our farmers who donated the cattle for the weekend and we're grateful."

A huge number of campdraft events have been cancelled this year with Mr Hukins saying 80 per cent of the state was deep in drought, but the Far South Coast had luckily received some rain relief to be able to hold the event.

"Everyone is doing it tough, so it was nice to put on an event for people to get away for the weekend, relax and have a good time."

Visiting rider Warwick Lawrence took out both the Open and the Novice crowns from the weekend and Mr Hukins said it put him in good stead for the riders' next campdraft competition in a few weeks.

With the influx of visitors and entries, the committee are now excited to plan for 2020.

"As the president, it makes your job easy when you've got a tremendous committee behind you, the cattle donors and this community that supports you wholly and solely, it's very gratifying," Mr Hukins said.

"We just want to thank all the sponsors and cattle donors for making the campdraft possible, but also to the volunteers, everyone in the yards and the entrants, there are just too many people to mention."