00:00 I'm Maureen and I run Cleverview Brumby Rescue with Paul, my husband, and we have here,
00:06 Falkor, he's a 30 year old Brumby Stallion that's only been out of the Cosasca National Park
00:11 since the 31st of the 5th month last year and Monty who has been out of the park for coming
00:19 on to eight months and he's a five year old. They've both been gelded now, both have homes to go to.
00:27 When we bring the horses here we pay, transport them from
00:35 Blowering in New South Wales up here to Queensland. The horses are trapped in the Cosasca National Park
00:40 by the National Parks themselves, we do not go and trap them. They're transported up here
00:48 as a two-day trip, they are overnighted in Gwendoowindy where they have feed, water, rest and everything
00:54 like that. Then they're brought here unloaded and then we continue them with getting them
01:00 vetted, all their checking, feeding them. All this comes out of our pocket. The horses themselves
01:10 when we rehome them they are gelded, branded and microchipped. If you can see here on Falkor
01:16 he has our registered brand and the K is a K to give him a lifetime traceability of being a genuine
01:23 Kosciuszko Brumby which is really really important for us to make sure that these horses have a
01:28 lifetime traceability of where they came from and their origination and their genetical background.
01:33 The genetics of these horses is dating, it's been proven to date back to pre-Australian white
01:41 settlement and some of the breeds that have come, some of the bloodlines coming out in these genetics
01:47 is extinct breeds of horses that no longer can we get in order to help with our genetic basis for
01:56 the equine industry of today that has been deficient with lion breeding. These horses,
02:03 their temperaments, you just can't buy them anymore. They're just absolutely amazing and
02:07 as you can see by Falkor being over 30 years old even though he's had very little handling
02:14 whatsoever he is happy to stand here with us now. You know he's no longer scared or terrified,
02:21 he's comfortable with the fact that we're in his yard and there is absolutely zero aggression
02:27 in these horses. We've had over 400 horses here and we've had probably 70% of those have been
02:36 herd stallions anywhere from you know five to 30 years of age and I've never had one dangerous one
02:44 in the whole lot that we've had here. We've got 10 year old herd stallions that are
02:50 trick riding with kids and we've got 14 year old stallions that are going out now and doing pony
02:57 club jumping with children. They are just absolutely amazing, we just we just can't be
03:03 more prouder of them and we really hope the equine industry takes a hold of this and
03:07 support us. We're trying to save as many as we can.
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