Record attempt to train 70 brumbies in seven days transforms horses and humans

On a remote cattle station, horse trainer Joe Hughes is attempting to train 70 wild brumbies in seven days, in what he said would be a world first.

It started after a phone conversation late last year with the Campbell family on Mundrabilla Station, on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia.

The wild brumbies were chasing cattle off the water, and after a dry year the Campbells had started carting water for their stock.

A long way from his home on his own station in far western New South Wales, Mr Hughes had to make a decision.

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Article written by: Nathan Morris