WA Mounted Police take on Brumby Heritage

Posted on 12th March 2010

     

An offspring of  rescued wild horses in WA has been officially handed over to the WA Mounted Police by Wadi Farm owners, Katherine and Kevin Waddington. Katherine and Kevin are members of the Outback Heritage Horse Association of WA (a member group of ABA) who have been actively involved in rescuing many old bloodline brumbies from station properties in Western Australia.
Moonlight's dam and her sire's ancestors were once "unwanted" and deemed "surplus to requirements" in the outback. Her dam, Earaheedy Lorna, was rescued in 2005 and her sire, Redgum Malachi, is 3rd generation domestically bred from rescued stock. 
Moonlight was donated to the WA Mounted Police before she was born, but she had to pass all the relevant tests to make the grade, as a yearling. Katherine recounts Moonlight’s reception with the WA Mounted Police:

“Moonlight actually went up to the Maylands Barracks 3 weeks ago, for all her physical and temperament tests, which she passed with flying colours. The head vet Warwick Vale and Senior Sergeant Glen Potter, the Officer in Charge of the Mounted Section, were both "very impressed" with her physical and mental demeanour. Glen raves about her temperament, how calm she is, etc.

All the Mounted Section love her and she has 3 stablehands to share the caring for her. She will spend most of her time at Herne Hill, where WAMP have 44 acres, in between groundwork over the next few years. WAMP's training regime these days includes no shoeing and not putting any horse under saddle until it's at least 4-5 years of age, which appealed to us a great deal.

WAMP are going back to using part draught horses. They actually used to use big greys from the Wiluna area, many decades ago, so it's great that Moonlight has been able to go "full circle". The Police up north, in the early 1900's, also leased her ancestors from their original breeder, to hunt for escaped convicts, etc.”

   

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