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Ollie Dale/Virtually Famous To Film Kaimanawa Horses Muster

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 5:24PM

By Beckie Wright

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Ollie Dale, photographer and film-maker of Virtually Famous has been invited to film this year’s muster of the Kaimanawa horses. Ollie has been asked to film the muster for the Kaimanawa Heritage Horses Trust, so that they have their own footage for web and social media use, and for any other projects that may happen in the future.

Ollie has donated three days plus editing time to the trust, so that they may spend their limited budget on the necessities. The opportunity to film the muster is rare, and highly regulated with just Ollie and a small crew from Country Calendar.

For the first time in 21 years the annual muster of the Kaimanawa horses has been brought forward by a month to the end of April, so the Kaimanawa Heritage Horses people have been caught on the back foot, with only two weeks left to home over one hundred horses. The muster occurs every two years in order to maintain a safe and sustainable level of horses in the area, and is a joint effort between DoC, the New Zealand Army and the Kaimanawa Heritage Horses Trust. The iconic wild horses of the Central Plateau have had an enormous publicity boost through the inaugural KHH Stallion Challenges, not to mention the hugely popular television series following the Wilson sisters’ journey with their muster horses, Keeping up with the Kaimanawas. But even so it is going to be extremely difficult to find enough suitable homes in such a tight timeframe; as of March 14, not a single application for rehoming had been received.

“People often leave their applications until the last minute,” says Simone Frewin of KHH. “This can make things extremely difficult if they need time to make changes to their facilities. Every muster, we have people who miss out because of this. Not only are they disappointed, but it inevitably means a horse loses its life for the sake of someone getting organised a couple of weeks earlier.”

For anyone wishing to find out more about the muster and how to apply to home one of the horses, please visit the website at https://kaimanawaheritagehorses.org/

For more information on Ollie Dale and Virtually Famous, please go to http://virtuallyfamous.co.nz .