Saving the Snowy Brumbies by Kelly Wilson

Author:Kelly Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780143770589
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand
Published: 2013-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

Ballarat being ridden by eight-year-old Shanti, 34 days from the wild.

Vicki’s first ride with Zali on the arena, after three weeks of handling.

While we inspired the girls with a love of showjumping, they were equally stirred by our work with the wild horses. When Shanti wanted to save and train her very own Kaimanawa from the 2016 muster, she begged her parents to let her have a weanling. Shanti couldn’t bear the thought of the Kaimanawas going to slaughter and believed that she was capable of training a wild horse. After printing out the re-homing forms several times and leaving them around the house for her mum to find, her persistence paid off and we got a phone call to ask whether we thought the girls were capable. After a lot of consideration, we decided that both were indeed ready; the experience they could gain from taming a wild horse would teach them much more about timing and feel than any domestic horse could. We also offered to mentor them. They could have their Kaimanawas delivered to our stockyards and work on the initial handling alongside us so that we could keep an eye on them and continue to teach them everything we had learnt. Then, once the horses were ready, they could then go to their own property. It seemed like a win–win situation: it would allow Shanti and Gaia to have a similar experience taming wild horses as we had benefited from as children — Vicki had been nine when she’d tamed her first wild stallion (from Parekiore Mountain) and 12 when we’d tamed some wild Welsh stallions from further north — and would also ensure that two fewer horses went to slaughter during the upcoming muster without us overcommitting to too many horses ourselves.

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