Clinton Anderson - Outback Adventure 2 of 14

There's 300,000 to 400,000 horses running wild in these areas. Horses have now escaped. They're jumping the fence. They're going into the neighbours' property. We lost 700 head of camels out of one of the paddocks here. A broken fence does mean a lot of lost revenue. Nobody's ever gone to such a remote location, captured a 10-year-old wild stallion and decided, hey, let's see if we can tame it. A call from Ian Conway has brought me to the Red Centre of Australia for a challenge that I don't know if I can accomplish. Now it's showtime, mate. What the f***? Down Under Horsemanship's Australian Outback Adventure is brought to you by Ritchie Industries. Fresh water for life. I'm Clinton Anderson and I have a method for training horses. Getting horses to behave is simple. It's training people that's the real trick. Join me as I tackle some of the most challenging situations with problem horses and with problem owners. As you're facing me, you're looking over the top of those ranges there. Beyond that range is estimated at 10,000 head of Brumbies running wild in that area at this time. It wasn't until I got there in the middle of the Outback with Ian and he took me out and showed me the damage that's being caused to the properties, the fences, the pastures, etc. It wasn't until that happened that things really started to sink in for me. Ian was not exaggerating when he spoke to me on the phone about how this stallion and the horses are causing a lot of problems. It was exactly what it was. The horse that we're trying to catch is a really bad Brumby. And all my men that work with me have had a lot of problems trying to get that horse back into the yards. He's been a bugger of a horse. He's actually been crippling a lot of our horses out in that area and we just wanted to try and get him back into the yard. Okay fellas, Clinton has come from America to give us a hand here to catch this Brumby that we've been chasing. So I'll introduce you all to him to begin with. We've got Anselm on your side there on the left. We've got David on your right. We've got Chris Pollitt behind him. Chris is actually a doctor, he's a vet. And this is Edric. Edric, good to meet you mate. So fellas, I've got in front of us here now this is a map that was drawn by an old man and a partner of his in the years gone by. But it was also assisted by a lot of old Aboriginal men as well. So they were Aboriginal stockmen that named all this country. It will be all over this country. It covers a total area of about 5,000 square kilometres. Okay. I don't think people realise kind of how remote where we went to do this is. People talk about the outback, okay. This is like the out, out, outback. It makes the regular outback look like civilisation. When you look at it in tribal areas, this is an area that is owned by Edric's family. It's called Orumbinyi. Then you look at Anselm's family that owns all this region around here which goes into from Mareeny back to Warrirruka in this area here. And so that's the area that we'll be covering. But we'll be setting up yards in certain areas. The country itself consists of big valleys, deep valleys, red rock, big gum creeks. And it's a very hard country to get into on horses or anything like that when you're chasing horses. But the Brumbies know every inch of this country. So they've got the advantage on us. They've got the advantage on us the whole way. It wasn't the first time Ian had tried to capture this horse. So there was no room for error on this situation because he was getting smarter and smarter about not being caught. We've got two helicopters, two mustering helicopters coming in with very, very professional pilots. They're cowboys in the air. On the ground, we'll have stockmen who will be riding motorcycles and driving vehicles. We had the helicopters. We had the bull catchers. We had me on horseback. We had the rangers. We had motorbikes. We had the full barrage of equipment and personnel. We thought we'd start on this end. It's the actual western end of all these rangers. This is a mountain range here, and that's a mountain range there. So the valley is what we're going to drive him down. That's right. Actually, that was where he was last seen. So that's where we're going to have to concentrate on at this stage. But what we'll do is we'll go to Marini first and we'll set up what we call portable yards. You know what they're like, what portable yards are. They're transportable yards that are clipped together. And then we'll put in some wings. It's like a funnel. And we funnel them in on that into the yard where we hope to be able to close the gates right behind them. Our main aim is to find this Brumby and to run whatever other Brumbies there are in that area into those yards. What are the biggest points that you can give me tips, because I've never done this before to this extent? It's very fast. It's probably the fastest thing that you'll do on ground on this sort of rough terrain. There's a possibility of getting hurt, so you've got to be very careful that whatever you do, you think about what you're doing the whole time. I would like to think we've got a fighting chance again. I'm always looking for ways to challenge myself as a horseman. I'm always looking for ways to challenge the method. There's no better way to challenge it than with a wild stallion that's never been captured before, that lives out in the middle of Australia in the rankest part of the country, and, you know, run him in and capture him and train him with the method. Yeah, well, David will be a driver of a bullcatcher. I will be one. Anselm will be riding a motorcycle. Hedrick will be riding a quad. And if there's any problems with any of the stock, we've got our veterinarian here the whole time to be able to look after those things. Okay, great. Good plan. Let's get started. Okay. Create the ultimate training conditions with the Clinton Anderson Signature Series from Balin Country. The Patience Pole, conceived and designed by Clinton to teach patience and respect while protecting both horse and handler. Made with an industrial-grade bearing that never requires lubrication, the poles are attractive and require virtually no upkeep. Get the Clinton Anderson Signature Series from Balin Country. There is no other like it. I grew up around a lot of horses, cattle, camels, back at my home, and done a lot of work with them through the years. We go out on musters when we need to, for money or to get rid of livestock. A muster is a farmer will call us and he'll have stock either in the open range or in a paddock, and it's our job to move that stock, either put them into a yard or move them from paddock to paddock. Sometimes it's just a question of moving them from water to water. We have nine helicopters in total. We keep two mustering machines. It's a specialty that we do, so we find if we can keep two good guys in two good machines, we look after that part of the industry quite well here. The use of helicopters has become quite widespread in Australia. It's cost-effective. It's easier than paying multiple people on the ground. We're in and out, and we go and do the job, and then we go home. The machinery around us represents quite a large investment for us. Behind us we have the Robinson R44. We don't generally use an aircraft that size for mustering, but the R22s, their baby brother, dominates the industry these days, mainly because of its fuel efficiency. They're very sensitive. They're very manoeuvrable. They're a great helicopter for this type of operation. I don't think Robinson ever thought they'd be used for this. But, you know, they're ideally suited. They represent about a $300,000 outlay for us. They have a 2,200-hour life, so it's very important to us that they make money while they're flying. And we keep the wear and tear down. This environment out here is very demanding on these choppers. You know, before we could go find the wild brumbies, we had to do some scouting out. We had to do that from a helicopter, and I also did it on the ground as well from horseback. Riding across those big ranges on that horse out in the middle of the country was just beautiful.