From Phar Lap to Makybe Diva, Garryowen to Picasso, and Our Solo to Peppermint Grove, Australians adore their horses with unrivaled passion. Be it a pony club mount, an Australian Stock Horse descendant of the mighty Waler or a Snowy Mountains brumby, such is our love for the horse, we have virtually granted him honorary native status. In the short time that the horse has called Australia home, he's thrived to make the great southern land one of the world's most revered horse breeding destinations. Our homebred gallopers clean up from Ascot to Dubai and Hong Kong. Sheiks from the Middle East haunt Australian Arabian studs for the world's finest Arab horses. Australian Stock Horses have been exported across the globe, while our tough wiry thoroughbreds - the sort that never say die - have delivered Australia countless joyous Olympic gold medal moments. This comprehensive, beautiful book rattles to the pounding of hooves, exploring the much-loved Australian Light Horse, the all-Australian sports of campdrafting, polocrosse, bush polo and picnic racing, the evolution of the Australian Stock Horse, plus a look at that armchair of the saddle family, the Stock Saddle.