Snowy Brumby Horsemanship

06/06/2026

Our SBH Brumbies are on a Serrated Tussock W**d management trial at the Bannister Angus Stud near Goulburn.
Thank you to the manager of the property and with guidance from his Agronomist for this trial. He had seen the work our brumbies had done on our own land for 10 years and after we ran some small trials at home they jumped at the chance to see if this could work in a commercial agricultural context.
This paddock had been sprayed in the past however the tussock had built up a resistance to spray. The paddock is being used to graze cattle however they do not touch the tussock.
The brumbies have been there for 2 weeks now and are already eating it down to small stubs. Plus the whole mob has put on condition after a big summer of training and ride work.
Thank you to all who have commented on our trial so far and shared our posts. This is what we need to give the wild brums left a chance to be valued and not classed as a 'feral' animal with no use.

04/06/2026

Good job Barney and Rusty!
Grateful for all our SBH mob, including our incredible work dogs who never stop wanting to please.

04/06/2026

A wintery day visit to our Snowy Brumby mob at their serrated tussock w**d management trial near Goulburn.
Yep Snowy Brumbies eat this evasive w**d and are the solution to help with its management. We just have to stop shooting them all.
At this cattle station they have spent thousands plus for years on trying to spray it but it built up a residual instead.
Our Snowy Brumby Horsemanship mob has just came in and has started to knock it down already. They will be there for 4 months for the trial and we will be documenting and creating a report on this to be presented to the government and the agriculture industry.
Thank you to the Bannister estate for the trial and also to our SBH Charity for supporting.
But most of all thank you to our very special SBH Brumby Mob. We miss you but you'll be back to your Snowy River to begin work again for tours, ride teaching in Spring.

31/05/2026

First day of winter and that's a wrap up for our riding and horsemanship lessons, and training tours here at SBH us until October.
It's been a massive season and we thank all our mob, and especially our SBH Brumbies. They are all now out into their winter reserves and enjoying the peace of their family mobs.
Yes we are gutted about the Helicopter shoot about to begin in the park. As such we are offering our advice and guidance on any who wish to take on a brumby mob. It's a huge commitment and we know very well the difficulties. So please give us a call for free advice on 0483 283 078.
Over winter we are training off site at properties who have brumbies, plus running our Serrated Tussock W**d Program.
Best of winter to all.

30/05/2026

Thank you to Tracey who visited recently and is setting up a 'Man From Snowy River, Brumby' photography tour next year.
Please PM us for more information.

27/05/2026

Brumby Sammy doing what she does best. Representing her mob and proving she is far from being a 'feral animal'.
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21/05/2026

From wild to tamed, then tamed to trained and now living the best of life together as a small mob in a high country home.
Snowy Brumbies Gypsy, Saki and Looney came walking up and followed everywhere we walked loving the interaction again. They will be given a trim and worm which we do twice a year.
And for all those who criticized us who refuse to do the hard yards and train a once wild horse, we don't care what you think, we care that all SBH brumbies for life are cared for.
And for no cost we give any who ask for advice and assistance with their training for a brumby. And we thank our charity for raising the money for us to develop a Snowy Brumby video training program in the near future. Pm or call us on 0483 283 078 anytime.

18/05/2026

A brief visit to our tamed and trained Snowy Brumbies who live the perfect life on beautiful mountain land near Goulburn.
This week we watched with huge sadness and frustration another documentary showcasing Brumbies through the 'rehoming' process being so called 'saved' and dumped into paddocks.
We know in a couple of years those Brumbies will have hooves that long they can't move without pain. They will be starving as they over breed and run out of feed. And none have the opportunity to be given veterinary assistance as they can't be managed.
Stop the naivety they don't live wild and free once trapped. And even in the park they have a tough life. Instead know that a once wild horse can live free and with their mob, but they can also be cared for.
And they never forget the touch of a kind hand that trained them through.

13/05/2026

The evidence is clear. Snowy Brumbies are the environmental solution to managing the evasive w**d Serrated Tussock.
We have been taking photos and documenting the management and eradication of Serrated Tussock by Snowy Brumbies for a couple of years now. Even our local council w**d inspector has taken photos and approves wholeheartedly not to use harmful chemicals and wants to learn more about this. We have just been contracted by a nearby cattle station to do their first trial of 12 brumbies on a piece of land they can no longer control this w**d even after spending thousands of dollars spraying. We will keep you post on this trial with photos and evidence, but if there is any student out there wanting to do a research paper on this we need you!
And for all those who state ‘horses don’t eat tussock, or that they must be starving’ we can also give you evidence and vet reports to say our brumbies are in the best of health, even after 10 years of choosing to eat the tussock.
If you have rode in the alpine areas where these wild horses are from you would have seen the similarities of the natural grasses up there with this w**d here in domestic land. We believe the Snowy Brumby has adapted over 60 plus years to eat this harsh grass as part of their diet to manage their intake of high energy feed in the wetter valleys. And we have watched our brumbies here who live a similar life do the same for many years.
And now as the Government and National Parks are hell bent on eradicating the Snowy Brumby they may be that stupid to make extinct a environmental miracle that the brumby can do for the devastating Serrated Tussock degradation of grazing lands.
And as we led our 3 year old brumby c**t called ‘Snowy’ off his paddock of green grass and onto Serrated Tussock, he demanded to stop and eat some!
Come on NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service start opening your mind and learn.

13/05/2026

Alpine Wild dogs not Dingoes. We saw these big predators nearly a metre tall with paw prints in the mud as big as our hand. We have had a mate had some attack a tied up horse at night in camp.
But if you want to think they are Dingoes, go out into the park and sit down next to a Brumby carcass and see if you are still an expert of what a Dingo looks like and how they behave. May we suggest you may want to learn how to crack a whip.