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Updated: June 27, 2025
We spent our time crawling after sheep, and a camp-horse would be about as much use to us as side-pockets to a pig. We had expected Sandy to rush the fellow off the place at once, and we couldn't understand how it was that he took so much interest in him. Perhaps the fever-racked drover and the old camp-horse appealed to him in a way incomprehensible to us.
A camp-horse is a horse which has been especially trained for cutting out cattle on a cattle-camp. Working on the face of the camp means taking cattle which have been cut out from the man who is doing this particular job, and driving them away to the second mob. The Branded Warragul By noon the cattle were in two mobs, clean-skins and branded.
Mick was riding a bright chestnut gelding with high wither and an intelligent head, whose name was Hermes and who was reputed to be a famous camp-horse. Signalling to his boys to be ready, Mick rode straight into the mob of cattle. Almost at once he saw an unbranded steer and pointed his whip towards it. The horse did the rest.
So they go into the cutting-out camp with a zest, and toil all day edging lumbering bullocks out of the mob, but as soon as a bad rider gets on them and begins to haul their mouths about, their nerves overcome them, and they get awkward and frightened. A horse that is a crack camp-horse in one man's hands may be a hopeless brute in the hands of another.
I've rode that horse a thousand miles. I wouldn't sell him, only I'm a bit hard up. Sellin' him now to get the money to go home." "Hoo auld is he?" "Seven." "Is he a guid horrse on a camp?" asked M'Gregor. "No better camp-horse in Queensland," said the drover. "You can chuck the reins on his neck, an' he'll cut out a beast by himself." M'Gregor's action in this matter puzzled us.
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