From unwanted station horse to Anzac Day educator — the story of Mick Batchelor's Deets

Mick Batchelor was travelling through the outback a few years back when he chanced upon a truckload of horses at a rodeo at Tibooburra in Far West New South Wales.

Mr Batchelor, a stock contractor, naturally took a closer look.

To his surprise, he learned that they had come from Naryilco Station in Queensland's Channel Country.

And, to his horror, that they were on route to a knackery in South Australia.

"They were all work horses and hadn't been used for a while and had been out on a river paddock in a real big drought year of 2017," he said.

Cattle company S Kidman & Co. had recently sold the station to Gina Reinhart's Hancock Agriculture and was getting rid of excess horses.

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Article written by: Tim Lee