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Teaching a Horse to Play Together
Egan "The Man
I'll teach you to play with me horse.
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Summer in the High Country: Beauty and Danger
Elyne Mitchell
Every summer, men returned to the High Country. Every summer they came with their wide horned red and white cattle, their dogs and their pack horses. To man the high country was a pasture, a summer home, a relief from the heat of the plains. It was a place of beauty, and a source of income. To most of the bush creatures the wallabies, wombats, possums and kangaroos, man was a nuisance, an intruder. But to the wild brumbies the arrival of Man meant the arrival of danger.
[Narrating]
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The Legend of Thowra the Silver Brumby
Elyne Mitchell
For years to come men around campfires, women at country shows, children in schools will tell stories of a great silver brumby seen galloping on windpacked snow. Of a ghost horse drinking at the Crackenback River. Of a horse that everyone thought was dead appearing in a blizzard at Dead Horse Gap and vanishing again. Of the wild stallion cry that could only be Thowra's. But no human really knows where the son of Bel Bel roams. Thowra, the greatest brumby of them all.
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A Foal's Journey into the World
Elyne Mitchell
By morning the storm had blown itself out and in the calm light of dawn, Bel Bel emerged from her shelter to coax her young creamy foal into the vastness of his new world. The creamy, with the silver mane and tail. Thowra would not be able to hide in the gray green of the bush like the other brumbies. He would have to rely on his speed and cunning and all the knowledge and wisdom that Bel Bel his mother could pass on to him.
[Narrating]
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Tales of the Silver Brumby Unfold
Elyne Mitchell
As the cold nights and the first frosts marked the ending of summer the men began to muster their cattle and with them went the immediate danger. And with them went more stories about the mystical silver brumby and more tales of his deeds and his daring.
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The Strength of Yarraman in the Herd
Elyne Mitchell
Yarraman was the finest, strongest stallion of all the herds of the high country. He was the King of the Cascade brumbies and now, just when he was needed, he was here to protect his handsome, but still foolish, son and his favorite mare.
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Struggle for Supremacy Among Majestic Stallions
Elyne Mitchell
It would not be a fight to the death for both were magnificent stallions in the prime of their lives. It would be a fight for supremacy, a fight to stay on in the Cascades as King, or leave as the vanquished never to return.
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The Arrival of Yarraman, the Mighty Stallion
Elyne Mitchell
Bel Bel led Thowra back to the territory of their own herd and the protection of the mighty stallion Yarraman. Yarraman was the finest, strongest stallion of all the herds of the high country. He was the King of the Cascade brumbies and now, just when he was needed, he was here to protect his handsome, but still foolish, son and his favorite mare.
[Narrating]
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A Brumby's Loyalty to His Herd
Elyne Mitchell
The Man went too, without his precious Golden. But Thowra knew he'd be back to get her. Especially now she was in foal to him. Unlike the other brumbies, Golden was not used to the harsh conditions of winter in the high country. Especially for her sake Thowra kept his small herd moving in search of better pastures.
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Searching for Creamy Cooley
Egan "The Man
Where's little creamy, Cooley?
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Egan's Inquiry About the Capture Count
Egan "The Man
How many did we get Murray?
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The Value of Two Hundred
Egan "The Man
Two hundred.
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Feeling of Being Watched in Nature
Egan "The Man
Let's just go and have a look around? Ever get the feeling you're being watched Echo?
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A Legacy of Strength and Sacrifice
Elyne Mitchell
They fought on and on and as the darkness raced from the shadows of the setting sun, it took with it the strength of the older Yarraman, lord of the Cascade brumbies. As Thowra looked on he knew this would be his proud father's final battle. The Brolga was at his peak and his stamina could not be matched. Thowra also knew that one day the mountains would ring loud with his cries and the earth would carry his blood as he fought to win back a kingdom.
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Confrontation with the Silver Brumby
Egan "The Man
I've got your daughter now, silver devil!
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Return to the Herd's Protection
Elyne Mitchell
Bel Bel led Thowra back to the territory of their own herd and the protection of the mighty stallion Yarraman.
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A Reunion with the Silver Horse
Egan "The Man
She came back to me, silver horse!
[laughing]
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The Birth of Thowra, the Wind Brumby
Elyne Mitchell
It was on a night very like this, not so very long ago. It was one of the wildest spring nights that there has ever been. No possums stirred, no wombats left their holes. Only a few kangaroos, their last shelter destroyed, were braving the fury of the storm. And Bel Bel, a wild mountain brumby beautiful and wise, who was preparing to give birth to a foal. There was something mysterious and exciting in the wind. Something important was about to happen. Thowra she named him, for Thowra means wind. She named him for the wild wind in which he was born.
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A Long Anticipation for Darcy
Egan "The Man
I've been waiting for you, Darcy.
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The Nature of Stallion Confrontations
Elyne Mitchell
It was quite usual for one stallion to defeat another. Defeat yes. But not kill. But Yarraman was too great a horse to simply be defeated, so The Brolga had left him to die.
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Longing for Home and Connection
Egan "The Man
Golden. Home, Echo, home!
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Dismissal of Unwanted Attention
Egan "The Man
Just ignore him.
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Thowra's Journey into Dangerous Territory
Elyne Mitchell
It wasn't long before Thowra decided to put his new knowledge into practice. He began to track some strange horses. He kept well hidden as he followed the hoof marks towards the grazing grounds of a fierce, gray stallion known as The Brolga. Because he'd always been by her side, Bel Bel had not yet taught Thowra the danger of trespassing onto the territory of another herd. Especially not that of The Brolga. The Brolga would never be as fast as the wind, nor would he be as graceful a dancer as the bird for whom he was named. But he was already showing signs of what he would be, an ugly determined fighter, never resting till he got what he wanted.
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Golden's Instincts Amidst Change
Elyne Mitchell
When the good weather returned no one realized that Golden, having been with men all her life till Thowra captured her, was lacking in the instinct to take the stirrings of her unborn foal calmly. At the last moment Golden left the herd to seek the comfort and protection of her old master.
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The Brolga's Gesture of Respect
Elyne Mitchell
And it was The Brolga who bowed to the youth and grace of Thowra relinquishing his place to the younger son of brave Yarraman.
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Legends of the Mighty Wild Stallion
Elyne Mitchell
Now shut out all other sounds, and concentrate. Concentrate on the wind. Listen. Not for the sound of the wind, but for what you hear on the wind. Listen closely. There's been talk about Thowra for a long time now. Some say he lives. Some say he never existed. Some say he's a ghost. But always there are tales of the mighty wild stallion. The great palomino Brumby. King of all the Cascade brumbies.
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The Pursuit of Thowra's Freedom
Elyne Mitchell
Thanks to Bel Bel, Thowra escaped from his first encounter with Man. But it certainly wasn't to be his last. Thowra didn't realize that he'd become a challenge, a prize, to be pursued and attained at all costs.
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Determined to Pursue His Target
Egan "The Man
I’ll get you! I swear! I will get you!
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Fence Repair and Cattle Safety Concern
Elyne Mitchell
Jock?
Jock
Yeah.
Elyne Mitchell
Is everything all right?
Jock
You had a break in the fence down the track a bit. Me and Egan stuck some dead branches in it. Should hold it for a while. We were worried you wouldn't find the break, what with Tom being away and that. You could've lost quite a few cattle. What we did should home em I reckon, at least till they arrive anyway.
Elyne Mitchell
Would you like to come in?
Jock
No, thanks anyway. Best be gettin ourselves home, I reckon. If you need us at all you call alright?
Elyne Mitchell
Okay, Jock.
Jock
Okay, go in, go in.
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The High Country's Intruder: Man and Nature
Elyne Mitchell
Every summer, men returned to the High Country. Every summer they came with their wide horned red and white cattle, their dogs and their pack horses. To man the high country was a pasture, a summer home, a relief from the heat of the plains. It was a place of beauty, and a source of income. To most of the bush creatures the wallabies, wombats, possums and kangaroos, man was a nuisance, an intruder. But to the wild brumbies the arrival of Man meant the arrival of danger.
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