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[RC] [Endurance Riding: News] Arab sheikh backs wild horses forendurance - Endurance.Netphoto: horsetalk.co.nz Could Australia's wild horses be about to take the endurance world by storm? Thirteen wild horses from Western Australia have been plucked from the wilderness, and, in a tale reminiscent of "My Fair Lady", now find themselves living in air-conditioned comfort in Dubai with personal grooms. Their mission is to make their mark in the sport of endurance in what will be an interesting tussle between the survival-of-the-fittest law of natural selection and the selective breeding of horse owners. The whole exercise had its roots in a website built by Broome woman Libby Lovegrove to alert the world to the plight of horses in the broad expanses of the Kimberley. [More ...] -- Posted By Endurance.Net to Endurance Riding: News at 6/27/2008 09:50:00 AM
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