How wonderful and encouraging your story is. I am up in Central Australia and have a special brumby mare. Spinifex was a very dominant & aggressive mare. I have been lucky enough to have had help from Carlos Tabanaberri (wwww.whisperingacres.com) who has helped Spinifex & me work through her issues. Have a look on his website, if you need any advice or help – he is the one. He is so gentle and knows how brumbies are very different from our domestic horses.

Goodluck with your brumby, Angie

Link now up on http://www.savethebrumbies.org

Many thanks, I’m sure readers will love to share your journey with Sakima. Jan.

Really enjoyed reading your work with eachother. Look forward to updates on progress of you both. It is always fascinating to learn more of human interaction with such a proud, wild spirit, especially when that is a Brumby spirit. Jill Pickering

Yes I love your stories about Sakima – they are truly inspiring.

He is one lucky horse!

Actually I looked at the Brumby website yesterday and decided it was time to get involved. So today I will decide on a brumby I like and pay a monthly amount and hopefully I can go there and visit.

Of course I would like to adopt one but that is hardly possible when I do not have my own property.

I have been thinking for a while how can I use my website to really help horses and other animals. The seed has been planted, thank you.

I had a look at Wirrawaypark, and although I can understand their desire to keep the breed characteristics intact, I cannot but think that the foals born on their property already have less ‘wild’ blood in them than their parents. I just wonder to what extent the brilliant Brumby brain is going to be bred out of the horse in the next few generations… it takes a very special horse to survive the wild, as you said in your blog. It makes them sharp, attentive, cautious and fair and keeps them always on the tip of their toes so to speak, qualities which are not easy to work with for us humans, but if we learn to understand them well, will ultimately be of great benefit to us in our training of the horse.

I really look forward to reading more of your blog.

I wish you and yours and naturally Sakima a wonderful festive season.

He certainly is a beautiful boy and I wish the two of you all the best!
Kind regards, Linda

I would also like to forward to Carlos Tabernaberri who did such a great workshop for us in September, he will be so interested as working with Brumbies and fear syndroms is his speciality.

I will also send you a copy of my book, The Sunflower Pony, written just before I became passionately involved with the Brumbies and started STB Inc. Geared mainly for kids but all horse lovers enjoy the stories, the first in a trilogy …