Rita and Grant's first daughter, Gai was a barrel racer whose partner Kelvin Mathews is a bulldogger and steer wrestler. Gai and Kelvin's daughter, Michelle, is a barrel racer and her partner, Nigel Dolgner, a bareback rider. The Lillyman's elder son "Budge" - the only one in the family who does not rodeo, married Thomasine Norton and they have three children, one of which, Nicola, is a barrel racer.
 
Netta, Rita and Grant's second daughter is a breakaway roper, married to former APRA President Ian Wharton who was best known as a team roper. They have a daughter, Zoe, who has competed in barrel racing and roping. The next Lillyman is Tony whose main event is steer wrestling and who runs the Richmond rodeo today. He is married to one of the Purse family, Louise, an Australian Title holder for breakaway roping. Their two sons, Casey and Joel are team ropers, breakaway ropers and steer riders.
 
The youngest, Bridget, competed as Terri Lillyman until marrying Darren Brandenberg, a bullrider who rode Chainsaw. She does team roping and breakaway roping, but it is her skill in barrel racing that brings the crowd to their feet at Kalkadoon Park. Their five-year-old daughter, Dakota, and sons Brumby and Dylan are too young yet to have expressed any interest in rodeoing themselves, but it is surely only a matter of time, as Brumby's hat bears the slogan 'Future bullrider'.
 
"Until I was 17 years old I didn't have a lot to do with rodeos. Darren came originally from Hughenden so I knew him before we met at rodeos, but I guess it was inevitable that I would marry someone from within the rodeo community.
 
"The first horse I bought was already trained, and I won my first titles on him. But I'll buy a horse if I see potential in them and think I can train them not to be barrel kickers. I will turn horses over and sell them on. The horse I have at the moment was a little rope horse, and he was the only option I had after the other one died.
 
"My grey was a beautiful horse named Blue Dog. I won on him in Mount Isa in 2000 but I only had him for a short time and then he died. He got colitis, a sort of colic, and once they get it not many horses survive. He was only 8, but you know he gave me his best shot. If he'd lived he would have been awesome.
 
"The family gets together at other times of the year apart from rodeos, but mostly one of the families will visit another one. The whole family did get together for Christmas though a couple of years ago, all of us except for Budge."