TRAINING, AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. I7I 



once the strays are started they are never allowed to 

 rest, but kept on the move night and day, the men 

 taking turns with fresh horses to keep them going 

 until they will run no more. They are then easily 

 driven to the yards, and handed over, in due course, 

 to the station horse-breaker. At Toorale, on the 

 Darling, I heard of a wild stallion that gave a lot of 

 trouble. He was one of the last, and two men were 

 despatched to run him down. They had three horses 

 each, all shod, as they had stoney ground to course 

 over. When they found the horse they kept him 

 going hard all the day. Towards evening, when his 

 strength was almost spent, they got him near the 

 yard ; he fell down dead near the entrance. " We 

 broke his heart," the hunters told me. In colour the 

 wild horses vary in different parts of the country. 

 Those most generally met with are bay, brown, roan, 

 and grey. I have also heard of a mob that were all 

 piebalds. 



The stallions fight for the leadership of the mob, 

 and if two or more be found in one lot, an armed 

 neutrality, after many fights, will be maintained by 

 them. The weaker are driven from the mob ; these 

 form a lot by themselves. Thus eight or ten stallions 

 will sometimes be found running together. Some 

 after being driven out will follow at a short distance 

 until they can entice some of the mares away. In 

 this way new mobs are formed. 



