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Yes some do but so many are damaged in training they cannot be rehabilitated.
It wrong to put a weight on a two year olds back even if that weight is only a jockey .
They are immature animals their bones are still developing .
I hope horses are slaughtered humanely as I do all animals .
Unfortunately people who work in slaughterhouses are not renown for sensitivity - how can they be killing living creatures everyday ?

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I agree with both the parts I've hi-lighted Muddy.

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I merely wanted to share photos of America's wild horses. I'm not interested in arguing with a bleeding-heart activist who thinks she knows-it-all.

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There is great controversy here abut feral horses (Brumbies) - The Man from Snowy River and all that. Whether they should be culled or not in National Parks.

New research looking at the impact of feral horses in Australia's alpine parks system has concluded that aerial culling is needed to ensure the survival of native ecosystems.

The peer-reviewed research by a group of 25 scientists found feral horses cause "widespread environmental degradation, destroy ecosystems, eliminate populations of native species and spread weeds".

They argue it can only be successfully managed by culling, as is practised with most other feral animals.

Last year, the NSW Parliament legislated to protect feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.

Professor Driscoll said other methods of controlling numbers — such as rehoming, fertility control, trapping and mustering — have all, in one way or another, proved ineffective in the long term, and expensive.

"If you're just doing trapping and mustering you can't take away enough horses, fast enough, to stop the expansion of these populations," he said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/20...vival/10771160

It lies beyond the Western Pines
Towards the sinking sun,
And not a survey mark defines
The bounds of "Brumby's Run".

On odds and ends of mountain land,
On tracks of range and rock
Where no one else can make a stand,
Old Brumby rears his stock.

A wild, unhandled lot they are
Of every shape and breed.
They venture out 'neath moon and star
Along the flats to feed;

But when the dawn makes pink the sky
And steals along the plain,
The Brumby horses turn and fly
Towards the hills again.

The traveller by the mountain-track
May hear their hoof-beats pass,
And catch a glimpse of brown and black
Dim shadows on the grass.

The eager stockhorse pricks his ears
And lifts his head on high
In wild excitement when he hears
The Brumby mob go by.

Old Brumby asks no price or fee
O'er all his wide domains:
The man who yards his stock is free
To keep them for his pains.

So, off to scour the mountain-side
With eager eyes aglow,
To strongholds where the wild mobs hide
The gully-rakers go.

A rush of horses through the trees,
A red shirt making play;
A sound of stockwhips on the breeze,
They vanish far away!

Ah, me! before our day is done
We long with bitter pain
To ride once more on Brumby's Run
And yard his mob again.

A.B. Banjo Paterson

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To see horses in the wild must be wonderful .
As a young woman I lived in Argentina out on the Pampas
The horses there are not wild but the fields are huge and the horses are beautiful .
They the descendants of the Spanish horses brought over by the conquistadors.

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They are probably the third most common animal you are likely to see in the wild in Australia - after roos and goats.

I suppose it depends where you are though but that is my experience

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Ah The Pampas. That must have been a lot of fun. As I understand it the gauchos are some of the world's best horsemen. Also, I hear that Argentina has fantastic beef. Yummy

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And you have shown the wild horses, but they may not be around for much longer if the BLM get their way. Don't you care about that?
No, I don't know it all, only from reading Ginger's articles & seeing her video's/DVD's, but if I'd lived in America I would be doing all I could to help her & her organisation to save the American wild horses from extinction.
That's my lot, can't reason with people who don't care.

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I read that there were some 400,000 wild horses in Australia .
And the government is considering shooting them .

There numbers have been reduced by the drought poor things

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/24/a...ntl/index.html

Many animals are culled in the U.K. ( eg deer ) it’s just that horses have such a special place in our hearts.
But when I look into the gentle eyes of a cow the mute ones of a sheep or the intelligent face of a pig I feel sorry for all of them .They are all living sentient animals.

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Yes it was and they are and it has !
I need to go back there at some time but lack the courage at the moment .