“Love at first sight.” Leslie Scott's dream to save two wild horses was precarious because it could be taken away at any stage. | carolynannewebb
Leslie Scott had heard rumours of wild horses living near her home in the central Victorian town of Clunes. She’d been tracking their manure and hoof prints for weeks.“My heart was racing,” she recalls.Leslie ScottIn a new memoir of her personal quest to bring the animals to safety, Scott documents how, over the next six months, she gained the horses’ trust and started a one-woman mission to give them a new home.
The animals – a small, wary dark-grey mare and a sweet-natured bay colt – bolted when Scott and her Jack Russell terrier Gizmo first crept towards them. Scott feared hunters would shoot them, or that farmers or bushwalkers would report them to authorities who might have culled them as feral animals, or caught them and sold them to an uncertain future.
By February last year, the thirsty horses broke into a nearby farm to drink from a trough, and with the help of friends and the farmer, Scott fenced them in. It was Valentine’s Day.Credit:Eight months later, at Scott’s property, Lucy gave birth to a foal, Quincy. The three horses now live with Scott and her policeman husband, David — and with Scott’s four other horses, on the outskirts of Clunes.
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