Noorinbee

[Corowa]

Name: Noorinbee
Species: Brumby
Gender: Mare
Age: 6 years old

Appearance: Noorinbee is out of Thoroughbred stock and so is long-legged and lightly-built. The mare has a plain head, but a good, sloping shoulder and powerful hindquarters.

While she is long through the back and slightly narrow through the chest, Noorinbee can easily outrun most ordinary bush brumbies over short distances.

Since Noorinbee is herring-gutted, the mare is hard to condition and is usually quite ribby, even when she was being regularly fed chaff. Having been broken in much too early, the mare has developed windgalls on her hind fetlocks, and this sometimes leads to unsoundness and strain.

Noorinbee is a light dapple grey, with two hind socks and a wide stripe.

Personality: Noorinbee is a skittish horse, prone to shying badly. The mare was captured by stockmen when she was only a yearling, in one of the big, High Country brumby drives, and was sold at the Cooma sale.

Her breaking in, consisted of being roped, hobbled and thrown. For a while, Noorinbee was used for mustering, but she managed to escape in a bad flood, and since then, is terrified of the sound and sight of a flooded river.

She is also very frightened of stockmen, and it only takes the slightest sound of the stockwhip for the mare to break out in a lather. The mare is constantly bothered by the thought of capture, and won’t go within one-hundred yards of a hut or man.

Noorinbee is an energetic and highly-strung young mare. The mare particularly enjoys the companionship of other horses, and often spends her time chasing some other young brumby through the snowgums until both thoroughly worn out, and there is nothing more to do, than settle down to the serious business of grazing.

History: Born from a grey mare of good station stock, and a scrubby brumby stallion. Captured by stockmen when only a yearling. Sold down by Cooma to a couple of stockmen to be used for mustering. Broken in as a two-year-old and ridden hard over many miles of rough country.

In a bad flood, the fences were washed downstream, and more than a few of the stock and pack horses escaped. Noorinbee was only recently broken in, and somehow, the mare missed out on the big round-up of the other stock horses, and made it back to the high plains.

Genes: Ee/Aa/GG
Extra Comments: Noorinbee means ‘north’