Sponsor a Horse Become Part of Their Story Every horse at Where the Wild Horses Run is available for sponsorship. Sponsorship isn't about how much you can give. Whether it's a few dollars or something more each month, every contribution helps us provide our horses with the safe and secure future they deserve. Choose the horse who captures your heart and contribute whatever you can afford each month towards their ongoing care. As a sponsor, you'll receive a monthly email update about your chosen horse, including news about how they're doing, what's been happening in their world and, where possible, new photos and updates from the sanctuary. For our wild mobs, these updates will respect our commitment to minimal human interference while still allowing sponsors to follow their lives from a distance. Where Does My Sponsorship Go? Your sponsorship helps us meet the real, ongoing costs involved in providing a safe home for our horses, including: Fencing and property maintenance Hard feed and supplements Hay and supplementary feeding Hoof care Veterinary care Horse husbandry and welfare expenses Infrastructure needed to safely manage the horses Other essential costs associated with their ongoing care No amount is too small. A $5 contribution helps. A $10 contribution helps. A $20 contribution helps. When many people come together, small monthly contributions can make an enormous difference. One Horse Can Have Many Sponsors Our sponsorship program isn't about "owning" a horse. Each horse can have multiple sponsors, allowing our community to come together to support their care. The horses remain under the care of Where the Wild Horses Run, and sponsorship does not provide ownership or decision-making rights. What it does provide is something pretty special: the opportunity to become part of that horse's journey. Help Us Create More Safe Places Our work doesn't end with the horses already here. There are more brumbies needing somewhere to go, and one of the biggest limitations we face is something very simple: Land. We are currently fundraising to secure additional land, which would allow us to expand our sanctuary and increase the number of brumbies we can safely rescue and provide with long-term sanctuary. Our vision is to create large, appropriate spaces where family groups and mobs can remain together and, where suitable, live with minimal human interference. Every additional acre represents the potential to say "yes" when another horse needs somewhere safe to go. Help Us Build a New Round Yard We are also fundraising for a new round yard. A safe, purpose-built round yard will give us an appropriate environment to work gently with the horses who require handling, rehabilitation and trust-building. For horses like Prince and some of our newer arrivals, this type of infrastructure is incredibly valuable. It allows us to work patiently and safely while respecting each horse's individual needs and giving them the time they need to build confidence. There Are So Many Ways to Help You don't have to rescue a horse yourself to change the life of one. Sponsor a horse. Help us buy more land. Contribute towards our round yard. Donate towards feed, fencing or care. Share our story. Every person who gets behind Where the Wild Horses Run becomes part of something bigger — creating a future where more brumbies have somewhere safe to go when they need it most. Because ultimately, our goal is simple: More land. More safety. More second chances. Wild. Safe. Free. Forever.

Meet Our Brumbies

Every Horse Has a Story

At Where the Wild Horses Run, every horse who comes through our gates has a story.

Some were trapped and removed from Kosciuszko National Park. Some were rehomed with the very best intentions, only for circumstances to change. Some were found alone as foals. Others passed through sales or simply reached a point where they had nowhere else to go.

They are all different, and that's why we don't believe in a one-size-fits-all approach.

For some, sanctuary means learning to trust people. For others, it means something completely different — having the space and freedom to live as naturally and as wildly as possible.

Here are the horses who make Where the Wild Horses Run what it is today.

Whiskey's Mob

Whiskey • Mystery • Lainey

80 acres. One family. Wild and free.

Whiskey is our magnificent big roan stallion. He was trapped in Kosciuszko National Park in 2025 before being rehomed.

Alongside him came Mystery, a beautiful mare who was carrying a very special little secret — she was in foal.

Mystery later gave birth to Lainey, who is now around 11 months old.

Today, Whiskey, Mystery and Lainey live together as a family in an 80-acre paddock, where we deliberately keep human interaction to a minimum.

They don't need to become riding horses or pets. They don't need to perform for anyone.

Our goal for this little family is simply to give them the opportunity to maintain their natural bonds and live with the space, safety and freedom they deserve.

Wild. Safe. Free. Together.

Thor's Mob

Thor • Bacardi • Maybel

Then there's Thor — our striking black stallion with a mob and story of his own.

Thor was also trapped in Kosciuszko National Park in 2025. He was initially rehomed on his own before his owner at the time received two more brumby mares, Bacardi and Maybel.

The three are now together as their own little mob.

Both Bacardi and Maybel are expecting foals this year, so Thor's family is about to get a little bigger!

They now have another 80-acre paddock to call home, where they can roam together with minimal human interference and simply enjoy being horses.

And as for Thor...

We may just have another surprise coming for him soon.

Watch this space.

Nutmeg & Destiny

Two Little Girls Who Found Their Way to Safety

Nutmeg's story is remarkable.

As a foal in 2024, she wandered out of the park and onto private property alone, desperately looking for a mare to feed from.

Thankfully, she found some wonderful humans instead.

They took her in, bottle-raised her and gave her the care she needed to survive.

Then, incredibly, around 12 months later, Destiny wandered onto the very same property under remarkably similar circumstances — young, alone and with no mum or mob in sight.

Once again, the property owners stepped in.

Unfortunately, they weren't in a position to keep the girls permanently, so Nutmeg and Destiny eventually came to Where the Wild Horses Run.

Today they have security, companionship and a permanent place to call home.

Kunama & Hope

From the Sale Yard to a Forever Home

We don't know everything about Kunama and Hope's lives before they came to us.

What we do know is that somehow these two beautiful brumbies ended up at a sale and were both quite skinny.

Sometimes you don't need to know every chapter of a horse's past to know that you want to change the ending.

So we purchased them and brought them home.

Hope is a gorgeous peppercorn filly, currently around 11 months old, with her whole life ahead of her.

Kunama is approximately six years old and is expecting a beautiful foal within the next few months.

They now share their paddock with Nutmeg and Destiny, where the four girls have companionship, space and, most importantly, a forever home.

Prince

The Boy Who Started It All

Before there was Where the Wild Horses Run, there was Prince.

Prince is a Brumby × Whaler who was born in captivity, but unfortunately his early life wasn't easy.

By the time we found him at the auctions, he had experienced a difficult start and carried significant fear and mistrust with him.

We brought him home — and in many ways, Prince became the horse who started this entire journey.

We work with him patiently and consistently, allowing him to progress at his own pace.

There is no deadline.

There is no expectation that he has to become anything other than himself.

Our hope is that, with time, patience and kindness, Prince will learn that humans can be safe and that he never has to be afraid of losing his home again.

Prince started something much bigger than himself — and because of him, many more horses now have somewhere to go.

Our Victorian Alpine Boys

Our Newest Brumbies

Two of our latest additions are beautiful pinto boys born to Victorian Alpine Brumby mares who were trapped approximately three years ago.

The boys had been living in a loving home, but unfortunately circumstances changed and they could no longer remain there permanently.

That's something we believe is incredibly important to talk about.

Sometimes good people find themselves in situations where they can no longer keep a horse. It doesn't necessarily mean that anyone failed — but it does mean those horses need somewhere safe to go.

These two boys have now joined our family.

We are working with them each day, building trust and getting to know their individual personalities.

Their next chapter has only just begun.

Slate

Our KNP Blue Roan

Slate is our personal horse and a very special member of the Where the Wild Horses Run family.

He is a stunning two-year-old Kosciuszko National Park blue roan brumby.

While Slate is personally owned rather than one of our sanctuary rescues, he's very much part of everyday life here and part of the family that inspired our love for these incredible horses.

And Not Every Horse Here Is a Brumby...

Our gates aren't only open to wild horses.

We also share our home with a rescued Thoroughbred and Stock Horse.

Both had reached the later stages of their lives and no longer had the careers they'd once had.

But we believe a horse's value doesn't disappear when its working life ends.

They didn't need another job.

They needed love, security, good food, companionship and somewhere safe to grow old.

And that's exactly what they found here.

This Is Their Home

Some of our horses will learn to be handled.

Some may eventually enjoy working alongside people.

Some will raise their foals.

And some will remain as wild as we can responsibly allow them to be.

That's okay.

Success isn't measured by whether we can put a halter on every horse.

Sometimes success is watching a once-frightened horse relax.

Sometimes it's watching a foal grow up beside its mother.

Sometimes it's seeing a stallion standing peacefully with his family.

And sometimes it's simply knowing that a horse who once had nowhere to go will never have to wonder where home is again.

These are more than rescue horses.

They are the reason Where the Wild Horses Run exists.