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In the NSW southern highlands, Horse Aid is working to ‘un-soldier’ former defence personnel and ‘un-race’ thoroughbreds
Scott Brodie and Mel Baker stand in the middle of the indoor training ring on a horse farm in the New South Wales southern highlands. A magnificent black gelding and former racehorse, Treble Clef, canters around the rails, stopping now and then, pricking its ears and regarding them quizzically.
Brodie, a 60-year-old former horse trainer and chief riding instructor with the NSW mounted police, speaks softly to both the animal and Baker, a medically discharged former Royal Australian Navy chaplain.
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