Where THE WILD HORSES are ]

摘要

All the Aboriginal students perched on the steel fence around the dusty arena want to ride a piebald horse called Allan.A three-year-old desert brumby, he's steady and surefooted, with just the right amount of spunk to test new riding skills; he's also the unlikely poster boy for a unique learning program. "Before we started offering the Certificate II in rural operations, most of these kids didn't have a good attendance record," says horseman and mentor Chris Barr, a teacher at the Ntaria School in Central Australia. "Now it's up by 500 per cent and the horses are a big part of that."