Saving The Snowy Brumbies

Download or read book Saving the Snowy Brumbies written by Kelly Wilson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year thousands of Australia’s legendary Brumbies are aerially culled or captured and sold for slaughter to manage the world’s largest population of wild horses. When the Wilson Sisters hear of government plans to cull 90 per cent of the Snowy Mountain Brumbies, they eagerly sign up for the Australian Brumby Challenge to learn more about these iconic horses’ desperate plight. Assigned ponies so small that even the slaughterhouses have rejected them, Vicki, Kelly and Amanda realise their Brumbies' future lies with much younger riders. Will these Brumbies embrace the many changes ahead of them, and can the sisters find children they trust to ride recently wild ponies? The sequel to the best-selling books For the Love of Horses, Stallion Challenges and Mustang Ride.

Download or read book Taming the Wild written by Kelly Wilson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Kaimanawas set her on a journey of self-discovery, teaching her not only the language of horses, but the powerful impact they can have on our lives. In Taming the Wild, Kelly Wilson shares her training philosophies for creating happy horses that love their lives among humans. From learning how to read a horse’s body language to taming a horse and starting it under saddle, this book is the ultimate how-to guide for everyday people training their own horse, whether wild or domestic. It is also the personal, uplifting story of the 24 wild horses Kelly helped save from slaughter during the 2018 Kaimanawa muster, and the experience of mentoring 10 riders as they tamed their very first horses. Full of breathtaking photography, Taming the Wild will educate and inspire novice and experienced riders alike, or anyone who wants to better understand the wild ways of these exquisite creatures.

Download or read book For the Love of Horses written by Kelly Wilson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sisters and an unforgettable journey to tame New Zealand’s Kaimanawa horses For the Love of Horses is a heartfelt story about a life familiar to many young Kiwis who love horses – the trials and tears of Pony Club, the joy of riding bareback, and the pressures of adolescence and competitive showjumping. It is also the story of an unlikely childhood dream coming true. Every year in the wilderness of the Central Plateau, wild Kaimanawa horses are rounded up and sent to the slaughterhouse. It’s upsetting, but what else can be done? The Wilson sisters decide something could be done. They saw future champions behind the fiery eyes and beneath the shaggy coats. In this touching book, Kelly Wilson tells the true story of how they embarked on a courageous journey to train horses that most people believed were untrainable.

Download or read book Wilson Sisters Adventures 1: Shyla, the Snowy Brumby written by Kelly Wilson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Nina help the Wilson sisters tame a wild Brumby into a child’s dream pony? All 10-year-old Nina has ever dreamed of is working with ponies. When the renowned horsewoman Kelly Wilson invites her to help tame a wild pony for the Australian Brumby Challenge, Nina has to pinch herself to believe it. She and Shyla swiftly form a close bond, but all the time Nina knows that the little Brumby is destined for auction, and the dream pony she has worked so hard to train will go to another child. Nina’s wild pony adventure will take her to Australia's Snowy Mountains and back – but will she get the chance to have a wild Brumby of her own? From the author of the bestselling Showtym Adventures, this novel is inspired by the Wilson sisters’ exciting true experiences with wild horses.

Download or read book Showtym Adventures 7: Jackamo, the Supreme Champion written by Kelly Wilson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventh Showtym Adventure, it's a race against time for Vicki to find and train a brand new pony for the show season. Should she go for experience, or for potential? When Vicki’s multi-champion pony is injured, she is devastated. It's the beginning of the show season and the 14-year-old must find a replacement quickly — but no pony comes close to the one she has lost. Then Vicki sees beautiful and inexperienced Jackamo. She senses he has star quality, and chooses him over proven ponies with years of show-ring success. With so little time, will she be able to transform Jackamo into a winner? Or has she risked everything on the wrong pony? In a turn of events they didn’t see coming, Vicki, Kelly and Amanda face heartbreak and difficult decisions about the future in this story inspired by the Wilson Sisters’ early years.

Download or read book Stallion Challenges written by Kelly Wilson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling book For the Love of Horses, comes an epic new journey to rescue wild Kaimanawa horses from the biennial cull. Follow television stars Vicki, Kelly and Amanda Wilson on their quest to train 10 wild, difficult and sometimes dangerous Kaimanawas for competition in the first national Stallion Challenges. Can the Wilsons change these horses' fate? Share the heartbreak, the pain, the elation and the success as they take on their greatest challenge yet. - See more at: http://www.randomhouse.co.nz/books/kelly-wilson/stallion-challenges-9781775538349.aspx#sthash.zDdw0feS.dpuf

Download or read book Wilson Sisters Adventures 2: Thunder, the Yearling Colt written by Kelly Wilson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Nina tame a wild Kaimanawa colt from wild to mild? Ever since she helped Kelly Wilson train a wild Brumby, twelve-year-old Nina has dreamed of taming a wild pony of her very own. When she learns that 300 of New Zealand's wild horses face slaughter in an upcoming muster, she and her sister Lily sign up for the Wild Kaimanawa Workshop to tame a colt each – in just one month – and bring it home. From Kentucky, USA, to wild New Zealand beaches, the girls embark on an exciting challenge. Only one will get the colt they hope for, and the other will star in a television show documenting the wild horses’ journey. Which will it be? From the author of the bestselling Showtym Adventures series , the second novel in the Wilson Sisters Adventures follows Kelly Wilson and Nina Sutherland's adventures with wild horses, and is inspired by true events. Read them all! Wilson Sisters Adentures 1: Shyla, the Snowy Brumby