Vale
Acres Destiny
4.2.1993 - 15.8.2018
Rest In Peace
Eidsvold Charity Cattle Drive 2018
Josehpine Anderson and her daughter, Isabel just chilling out on a ride.
Recently Josephine Anderson and her daughter, Isabel, spent the
last week of the Easter holidays participating in the six day Eidsvold
Charity Cattle Drive. This ride raised $30,000 for services: RFDS,
Care Flight and Bundaberg Rotary Lodge.
We drove 500 weaners riding our horses approximately 90
kilometres from Glencoe to Eidsvold Saleyards over six days. It was
a wonderful experience, doing it like it was done many years ago.
We camped under the stars and enjoyed camp oven dinners, while
listening to drovers tell their stories.
There were two drovers, Mr Ned Neumann and Mr Ron Bligh, who
were well known in the Burnett area, along with Mr David White,
who were conducting the whole drive. The event was to rekindle the
history of Martin Snelling, who in 1926 lit campfires for hundreds of
miles along the stock routes to Eidsvold.
Cattle from Camboon Station had taken the long journey on this
track to the Eidsvold Saleyards, many years ago. The countryside
was lovely and on average we covered 15-20 kms a day in the saddle.
Camping under the glorious stars at night and a full belly of deli-
cious camp oven food kept us content, but we were happy to come
home and have a long hot shower.
Acres Destiny (IMP) was laid to rest this week 15.8.2018 .
The little black horse was one of the most prolific sires ever to
grace the shores of this country.
Imported for the sport of Cutting it wasn’t long before he hit the
Campdraft arena as a sire, from there as they say the rest is
history.
A true legend of the horse world.
Acres leaves behind in excess of 1,334 registered QUARTER
HORSE progeny to continue his legacy.
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10 • The Australian Quarter Horse Magazine • September • October • 2018