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KAIMANAWA HERITAGEOur Heritage – Their Future HORSES Major Milestone Equidays Results and Photos Return to the Ranges Photos from the Ranges Tour Wild Horses of the World Story from Australia How Kaimanawas Compare Readers’ Kaimanawas And their New Foals Christmas Reading Book Reviews and Excerpts Issue 9 December 2014 KAIMANAWA HERITAGEOur Heritage – Their Future HORSES In This Issue From the Chair 3 Managing Editor Kaimanawa Krazy 4 Ben Moores 021-105-5853 Sale of Wild Horses 6 [email protected] Book Reviews 7 Advertising The Story of Kozi and Red 8 Elder Jenks 09-236-4115 Major Milestone 10 [email protected] Readers’ Kaimanawas 16 Welfare An End 20 Michele Haultain 07–823–6099 A Request for Sightings 22 [email protected] Merchandise 23 Return to the Ranges 24 In Search of a Wild Horse 30 For all contact details see Page 39 Welfare Report 32 For Sale 32 SpiritRides Quin 37 Simone Frewin and Mana at Equidays About Us aimanawa Heritage Horses is a non-profit charitable society run by a volunteer group of passionate horse people, dedicated to the care and welfare of Kaimanawa Khorses in both the wild and domestic environments. We are advocates for the horses and work closely with the Department of Conservation and other interested groups on the welfare and future of the Kaimanawa horses in the wild. Prior to each muster we search for suitable homes and complete home checks to About Our Cover place as many horses as possible. We actively support our members and their domestic Photographer: Kimber Brown Kaimanawa horses through our welfare team, area representatives, magazine, education and training, Annual Shows, and Ribbon Days. ©2014 Kimber Brown Our members’ generosity, through membership and donations, is our primary funding Visit www.pipiart.co.nz to see more of source. Kimber’s photos from the ranges trip and to purchase prints. You can follow us online: Website: www.KaimanawaHeritageHorses.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/KaimanawaHeritageHorses Twitter: @kaimanawa (twitter.com/kaimanawa) 2 – Issue 9 December 2014 From the Chair nother year has nearly passed and In all, around what a year it has been for KHH. 340 people saw the horses and Early in the year we had our A nearly 100 stayed National Show and held it in association overnight for the with the Franklin A&P Show. This proved BBQ. We were to be a better way of doing it, with many very lucky to see more people seeing these great horses at around 80 horses their best. each day including Soon after this we went to Horse of the a lot of foals. Their Year, not with horses, but with all of our condition looked merchandise and promotion material to great and they do a trial for next years Stallion Challenge appeared to have competition. This event is going to be the plenty of feed. largest undertaking we have done to date. Your Committee Then it was the Muster, which after a has worked very couple of date changes got underway. hard with all the Again we would like to thank all of those extra work that the who so generously gave of time and money Stallion Challenge to enable us to carry this out. A record has created, number of horses were placed, and in and now we are general it was a great result. preparing for Horse of the Year and The number of horses we have had to our National Show uplift this year has been a little concerning again soon. – but not unexpected given the greater number of horses that have been placed The Committee’s Elder riding Tommy Waara’s TeOne from the recent musters. These horses are latest purchase ©2014 Kimber Brown all being cared for by a few of our group, is specially and this has been an expensive exercise. designed trailer For those that haven’t purchased the 2015 We are now in a position of getting these from Thoroughbred Floats to hold our Calendar you will need to be in soon as for horses worked on and finding new homes merchandise. It will enable us to get the first time it looks as if we will sell out. for them. As there is no muster next year, out more, spread the word about the We had these at Equidays and the Ranges we hope to place these horses after they are Kaimanawas and what we do, and sell our Trip, as well as on our website. brought ‘up to speed’. If you missed out merchandise. on getting a horse from the muster, please Marilyn and I for the first time took a contact us to find out about the horses we That’s all from me, have a fantastic Xmas mare and foal from the Muster and what have available. and New Year, keep safe and loving the an experience this has been. A very skinny great Kaimanawa Horses. Next on the calendar was our Stallion mare arrived with one of the youngest Challenge at Equidays. Words cannot foals, and now they are looking great. The describe how successful this was — far mare arrived looking like an ugly duckling, above our expectations. The trainees and but has transformed into a beautiful their horses not only blew us away, but looking horse. The horses may in some thousands of spectators are still talking cases seem to be the winners, but from our Elder Jenks about it. perspective we are the ones that are the luckiest. Then our Ranges trip, also a great success with a record number of people attending. Aniwell® of Robin Pharmaceuticals Ltd RD 4 Rotorua 3074 NEW ZEALAND TEL: +64 7 3624643 [email protected] www.aniwell-nz.com Antibacterial wound protection cream and total sunblock for all animals. !!!The First Aid and Sun Block Choice for Your Horse! www.KaimanawaHeritageHorses.org – 3 Kaimanawa Krazy lot has happened here since sixteen foaled in early September. Bossy had wild Kaimanawa Ponies arrived limited handling due to her very large straight from muster in May of this tummy right from the day she arrived year.A Five ponies have headed off to their off the truck from the muster. She is homes after spending a little time here in a photo taken in July 2013 with being handled. Beautiful Koha made the a little foal in the snow, and used on trip all the way South to Dunedin. Big trip the front cover of Horse & Pony. We for a horse just mustered out of the wild 40 were concerned she may foal early and days before. didn’t want to put her under any more stress. But she held out to the 10th of The six mares and five foals that are September and had a lovely big colt foal staying here for a while until we find we have called Lunar. forever homes for them have all had some handling. With Beauty, the mother of Misty, the big grey mare (she stands at ‘Spirit of Kaimanawa’ (aka. The Brat), 15.2hh), had a lovely little filly foal we Missy and Twister having been started under saddle, they have called Twister, about 2 weeks after undertook the big trip north to Equidays Bossy. Then on the 23rd of October, the long in October to meet their public. Both Podge, the smaller bay mare, surprised us awaited foal arrived. Tanesha, my daughter, handled being in the limelight like they one night by foaling without us knowing had picked out her own mare right had been doing it all their lives. Those of she was that close. Luck was on our side from the day they arrived. A pretty little you who were at Equidays would have as she had a sweet little colt foal galloping chestnut with flaxen white mane and tail. seen all Stallion Challenges doing just the around her paddock when we went out in She is only a young mare, 2½ rising 3– same. These ponies are just amazing. Since the morning. He has an ‘L’ in the centre years old. And we waited for over a month Equidays they have both been turned out of his forehead and so he has been called for her to foal. She finally foaled a perfect to be horses for a bit. The Brat is running Little Legend. Podge is quite a shy mare, little chestnut filly exactly like her mum. with the four older foals (actually yearlings but Little Legend is already showing his now) and she is loving the time being in a So that only leaves Shy Girl to foal now. cheeky inquisitive nature. herd situation. She has a very large belly but is potentially So we had three foals by the end of still a way off foaling. Shy Girl was the And now the other mares are all foaling – September. most terrified of all the horses from the what a special time of year this is. Bossy muster to arrive at our place. She struggled Bossy and Lunar Rusty and Ziggy 4 – Issue 9 December 2014 to look at us for over 10 days. Podge and Little Legend She has now become one of the quietest Beauty and Spirit mares. There were a few times I didn’t think we would get there with her. Beauty seems to not be in foal as she has fallen in love with the two colts that have arrived here recently from the 2014 muster. Both have been gelded and are out in the big paddock putting on weight behind a one wire electric fence. Fantastic, since both of them are exceptionally great at jumping.