This place is so big... today's mission was to find three horses in a 20000+ acre paddock... we went out last night and couldn't find them and so 5 riders went out today. We left at 8am and got back at 12noon. After two hours riding we eventually found a mob of horses, and luck would have it two of the three horses were there. We swiftly caught one and vaccinated it, but had no joy at all in catching the other horse. We tried for over half an hour with no real su...

Early start this morning as the guys got organised to head out to Canteen Creek. Went out early on a standardbred who I thought was Con but it turned out it was Rollie. He went really well, getting the hang of going softly and slowly. Came back and swapped back onto Pluto. Again another great ride on this ride trouper. We then started vaccinating 20 horses for tetanus. This went extremely smoothly. Had a great chat to a couple of Italian/Germans. Interesting jou...

Meet Pluto. He's my new mustering horse. Rode him for the first time this morning. He was all good. I've handed Codys reins over to Dave for the next muster as he needs something super safe - which Cody is now that he has stopped bucking. Pluto was out on the last muster and is good to go. Gets a little nervous around choppers and vehicles but nothing dirty or dangerous in him. Handles a stock whip being craxked over head though. He's also smaller for me to get o...

Today was a bit of a relaxing one. Getting much better with dealing with the heat. We had a guest (Dave) and a new woofer (Hemi) arrive last night so horse riding it was. Pulled in three Standardbreds and Nettys little paint. Took quite a bit of time to get organised and head out but we got there in the end.Headed down the river and while walking everything was good. We decided to do a little quiet trot - well Dave took off at a flat trot, I was on Maddie (I thin...

What a day. Started off with a droving experience. So the animals that were processed in the yard with the wild bulls needed to head out to pasture. So we rounded up all the cattle from around the house and drove them down to the cattle yards. We then released the yarded ones and mixed them together. We then drove them north - all went well. We had two guests with us - one being an 86yr old man John and his wife Ann. (I need to send her pics once I'm back home). ...