UPBEAT COUNTRY MUSIC We're the Wilson sisters. We live and breathe horses ` we ride them, train them, show them... and fall off them. Vicki's the oldest. She's what we call the talent, because she's good at everything. Vicki took all the bravery in the family. I love extreme. Fast, little bit dangerous, little bit scared. Kelly ` she's like our media rep. And smile! She's the girly one ` the princess. If something's going to go wrong and I'm involved, it's drama times five. And then there's me, Amanda ` I'm the baby of the family. Amanda's always been the mischief-maker. I'm the entertainer, if you will. ALL LAUGH (EXCLAIMS) We're unorthodox,... competitive... I got it! I got it. That was me hitting it. That was me. There were two shots. ...and don't hold back. The hell is wrong with you? Oh my goodness. Me and my sisters are on our wildest ride yet, training Kaimanawa horses to compete in NZ's first ever Wild Stallion Challenges in just 150 days. It is probably one of the most terrifying things I've done. It's gonna be a wild ride. 'Tonight ` there are dangerous encounters,... Urgh. Why'd you do that? '...crappy conditions... This mud is... urgh! '...and doomed ambitions.' You can't do the challenge. Incredibly disappointed. SPIRITED MUSIC Ready, Vicki? Our wild horses have finally arrived in Whangarei. They're at the stockyards 2 K's down the road. Here. OK, here's the halters. How many do you have? Seven. Today we're handling them for the first time, which is exciting but scary. Who knows how they'll react. Halters, brushes, ropes. OK. Done. We don't have any yards at home that are high enough or sturdy enough to contain wild horses, and we can't bring them back to the farm until they're handled more. OK. Amanda, you make and feed the hay. Kelly, you grab the halters. CHATTER Into a drum, Amanda. I know. Keep moving. As usual, Vicki's the first one in, separating the Kaimanawas into pairs before we get our hands on them. Good boy. We want them to get used to us sharing their space. But why is it only me and Kelly mucking out? They need to move. You just got to let 'em run. Hmm, he's just` They've got to learn to relax. Good boys. < These are definitely the two most active. Good boys. Hey, Amanda, your horse is bleeding. Is it? > Whoa. It's got a huge hole in his head. He wasn't bleeding when he came off the truck. I haven't` I saw him. It seems one of my boys, who I've named Hoff, has already been in the wars. We're gonna have to clip it and see how bad it is. Good boy. (SNIGGERS) Good luck trying to do that with a wild horse. It's my first time handling wild horses, and to be honest, I'm shit scared of them. (LAUGHS) The problem is I've got to do a lot more work on him to get him to a point where I can treat his injury. Good boy, eh. 'I'm keen to gain his trust face to face.' VICKI: Wow, that's good, Amanda. > He's probably gonna bite me. He's probably gonna bite you? > Aww, look at you. > Wow. > Good boy. It's really special the first time you touch a horse's face, especially a wild one, and I am the first one to touch one! He's got a snotty nose, conjunctivitis. I'd say he's getting an infection. That's not good. (NEIGHS, STIRS ABRUPTLY) Oh God! Ooh! (LAUGHS) Oh God! You're such a chicken! (LAUGHS) Yeah, well, he came at me. I wasn't even close to him. He just launched at you. (LAUGHS) If you had held your ground, he actually backed off. If I held my ground, I would be on the ground. You can` You can, like, wave your arms and get them to stop. But horses like Hoff, he was coming at me not to scare me; he was coming at me to attack me. Standing your ground with a horse like Hoff is asking for trouble. 'Death more like.' OK. Let's` Let's bond` Let's bond through the fence. Good boy. This is much safer. He doesn't want to be your friend right now, Amanda. > Yes, he does. He just doesn't know it. Oi, what are you doing, you crazy cat? (SNORTS GENTLY) You can't bite me from here. Good boy. Don't bite me. (LAUGHS) > Oh! The horse has definitely won round one. Amanda's a bit of a wuss, I think. Uh, but he's been kicked in the head overnight, and I think he's got a massive headache. But we can't treat him or handle him until he calms down and Amanda can get a halter on him. Vicki's little pony, Doc, is looking pretty upset too. Kelly, this is the one that was head-nodding in the muster, eh? Yeah, noddy. Oh, he's` > He's the stress-related one. That's` That's why he can't` That's why he can't cope. He switches off. Touching them hands on, it's about the feel, the touch and them becoming aware that we're part of them. You're gonna get brushed so much, little man. Good boy. There you go. It's a pretty one, a nice white halter. Eww. Oh, mine's got lice. < Eww! He's crawling! Yeah. We're gonna have to lice-treat them all. We found lice on a few of them, and if we take them home and they touch our other horses, we've got 50 horses up there and we don't want them all catching lice. We don't have 50 horses. We do. We don't. Yes, we do. No, we don't. You're a little fighter. You're quite cute. I like your attitude. 'While Vicki's acing it,...' Look at you. '...me and Kelly aren't exactly living the dream.' (NEIGHS) Oi! Oi! Don't run away from them, Kelly. You have to hold your ground. BREEZY MUSIC Put the blue barrel in your arms. Don't hop up on rails, Kelly. Every time you hop up on a rail, they get away with it. You have to stand your ground. They're lead stallions, they've` they've led, you know, big herds and fought heaps of fights. You can tell by the scars that are on some of these stallions that they've, you know, been in some serious battles. Vicki's over us wimping out, so simply steps in and finishes the job. Absolutely perfect. Vicki took all the bravery in the family and left me and Kelly with nothing. VICKI: Yep, keep going. She's got to find it. Hello. Yep. You've got to pretend you're not scared. (SIGHS) Yeah, well... We're not all Vicki Wilson. Come on. Kelly's terrified. I'm not terrified. I just don't want to rush him. You're not rushing him, Kelly. I've handled wild horses before, but I always try and avoid all the dangerous stuff. Um, so in comparison to the others, I have quite a lot to prove, and I'm sure my way will be quite different from Vicki's. Hello. < Every single one of my horses haltered, and you don't have any. It's all right. Amanda doesn't have one of hers haltered either. 'Yep, rub it in.' Come on. Good boy. Come on. I saved an extra horse from slaughter at the muster, a greyer named Tullock. It's cute. He just looks like a Clydie. Right now he's the first one to give me success. At least these ones, their first instinct isn't to kick or bite me. There's a good boy. I like this boy. Good boy. Whoa. There we go. Whoa. GENTLE MUSIC What do you think, Argo? Life's a bit scary having hands on for the first time? Good boy. He's got two stars. Two wheels on his head means something special. This one is probably more special needs than anything. (LAUGHS) Argo has the biggest baby head in the world. I've got my suspicions that Argo's quite young, younger than we think. To compete in the challenge, he needs to be at least 3. Uh, we won't know until we can age his teeth and have a look. Good boy. He'll be cool in the challenge, I reckon... He'll be amazing. ...cos you'd be able to compete him cos he's big. 'There's no way I'd be putting my hand in amongst all those wild teeth. 'But Vicki? She's right in there.' Oh my goodness! What? Argh! There's no permanent teeth there. If he's as young as I think he is, it could change everything. UPBEAT MUSIC Back, back. If it's time to transform your bathroom... And left hand down. ...or your outdoors,... Keep coming, keep coming. Keep coming. Stop. ...everything you need is at Mitre 10 MEGA. 1 UPBEAT MUSIC To compete in NZ's first Wild Stallion Challenge, we've been randomly allocated our horses. But it looks like Vicki's lucked out ` one of her horses is totally stressed and the other is basically a toddler. Those first two in the corners are 'baby' babies. Could be rising 3, which means he's 2 now. I can't believe this is happening. I'm gutted. Worst news ever. He has to be 3 to compete in the challenge, and it's halved my chances. Look at that ` not one permanent tooth in there. Whoa, slowly. Are you sure? Holy sh`! Holy shit, all right. It's just a baby. You have no idea. Kelly, that means he can't compete in the challenge. No. That's really unfair. I'm really disappointed. 'We won't know for sure if Argo's out of the competition until the dentist has the final say. 'But right now I'm stoked, because my special through-the-fence training method 'seems to be paying off.' I think he'll think it's my finger, probably. Here. MUFFLED: Can I catch conjunctivitis off him? Amanda's a little bit of a loose cannon. She kind of does what she wants most of the time. Ahh! Get the nails off! I've been riding since I was really young, same as Kelly and Vicki. We are all quite adventurous. I guess it goes back to us not having a lot of money when we were younger, so we had to create our own, sort of, fun. And we explored everywhere. We'd just go off into the bush and come back a few hours later. Yeah, had a pretty cool childhood. We like exciting stuff, and we like challenges, and we like being able to better ourselves and beat each other, especially me and Kelly. We always fight it out. We always want to win. But I've started beating Vicki lately. She doesn't like it, but I have. So that's pretty fun. Amanda's a very talented rider, but she's a real comedian as well. And let's just say she likes her sleep. (GROANS) I just wanna go back to bed. (YAWNS) Boy, I'm so tired. SPLAT! SAWDUST RUSTLES (SNORES) (YAWNS) OK, so I'm a little work-challenged, but I usually come up with the best ideas around here. This time, though, it's Kelly who's come up with a plan to keep Vicki in the running if her horse is too young. RINGING TONE Who are you calling? Elder from Kaimanawa about the horses. About the horses? MAN: Hello. Hi, Elder. It's Kelly. 'But I'm not exactly rapt with her idea.' If his bones won't cope with the workload,... Yep. ...would the committee make a decision on swapping out Tullock, perhaps, to` for Vicki to use it as a challenge horse? 'I guess it makes sense for Vicki to take Tullock because he's an extra stallion. 'But so far, he's my favourite.' He could buck or rear or bolt forward. He's got the whole right thing. He's not worried. He's my wild stallion. He's the one that I trust the most. We'll send it out around the committee and see what reaction we get there. Then we'll play it from there. OK, that sounds great. 'I'm keen to let the dentist confirm Argo's age before we do anything drastic, thanks, Kelly. 'For me and Vicki, thought, it's back to work. It's our business to train horses.' BELL JINGLES 'And small event days like this means our young showjumpers can learn to strut their stuff.' Clear eight. Last fence on 12. We don't showjump for fame or anything else. We showjump because we love it. It's the partnership you have with the horses and the amount of trust that you can get with the horse. 'We'd compete in at least 30 different events a year. It cuts into our weekends, I'll tell ya.' Kelly is at home working her beloved stallion. BOTH LAUGH I think she's in love with that horse. Eh? If you get real flash, I'll take you to the beach. Does that sound like a good plan? She does have a life away from horses, whereas... Our` ...we kinda don't. Horses are our life. Yep, 24/7. Although if the size of Elder's massive dreadlock is anything to go by, our princess is going to be there for quite a while. It's just thick enough to be like an extra leg. Kelly's not taking him to the stallion challenge, but she's still got to tame him, and she likes things to look pretty. Ah! You got it. (CHUCKLES) Look. Oh, that's so disgusting. Look at it. Me and Vicki are leaving the clean-cut world of showjumping to head back and get our hands dirty. Vicki! VICKI: Kelly? > He's doing so good. Aww. Well done. > Eating out of your hand is really like an acceptance thing. It's kind of like, 'Hey, I'm relaxed. I can cope with this.' Elder has been pretty` pretty amazing. We, um, thought he'd be obviously a lot slower cos he's so old. (WHINNIES) What we can do in 24 hours is unbelievable, and... he looks like he's enjoying it, which is the whole point. Oh, I love that moment. We could be besties, you and me. (SNORTS) We could have many, many, many grand adventures. Hey, hey, hey. Good boy. Vicki may have haltered her second stallion, Doc, but she certainly hasn't won him over. Good boy. You have to learn to come off the rope. Good man. Doc's still pawing the ground. He hasn't calmed down since day one. We're not sure if it's all the recent changes or if there's something more going on. Physically, he could have eyesight issues, have toothache, infections. Mentally, he could just be totally crazy... just like my boy Hoff. I'm gonna keep one leg up in case he runs. That's how scared I am of you. They can snap at any moment, and I don't trust him at all, and I feel like my life is in danger and I've not worked with a horse like this. At this stage, he's, kind of, winning the battle, and I'm terrified of him. You know, stallions fight in the wild. They fight to kill, and I don't want to die. I'm too valuable. (LAUGHS) I'm gonna park the Hoff burger for now and move on to my other stallion, Nikau. Sometimes I forget that they're wild and I touch them like a... urgh! Well, he's wild. He'll remind you. It's just because I didn't touch his neck first and work my way up. It's easier down here. > I'm just so scared of you. (WHINNIES GRUFFLY) Ooh! Don't. Just slow down. And if you're slow, he can get used to it. > He's just being silly. Don't. Look, that's what's on you. Hmm. > Yeah. (LAUGHS) He's biting it. OK? That is what I'm putting on you, so stop being a silly billy. Don't. You can't move your hand away. > Yeah, I also don't want to get bitten. Maybe he's not a morning person. > 'He's a feisty fella.' Whoa! 'But Nikau doesn't scare me like Hoff does. 'I'm taking Vicki's advice to be brave and get him on a rope.' STIRRING MUSIC (WHINNIES) OK, good boy! I did it. Come here. Good boy. Here. Good boy. (WHINNIES) He doesn't know what to do, so he just bites his rope. (CHUCKLES) Yeah. Kelly, that's the first time he's eaten out of my hands. KELLY: Amanda, that's amazing. That's almost unbelievable. 'Wow. A minute ago, he was trying to eat me. This is a much better source of fibre.' Yeah, he's getting angry at` (SNORTS MENACINGLY, WHINNIES) What the`? Why'd he do that? < SNIGGERING Now the bond is gone, mate. See, it's when they do that that all my confidence goes boom, and I wanna cry. Don't do that. That was not very nice. I'm shaking really lots. Yep. Don't! Don't! UPBEAT MUSIC Tyres may all look the same, but they can vary greatly in how they perform. Some will even save you fuel. Fuel-efficient tyres are made from a different compound, so they roll along the road more easily. It works like this ` using the same energy, the car with fuel-efficient tyres travels further. When driving, that means your car will use less energy to push itself along. It's like saving up to 15c a litre every time you drive. Ask about Energywise-approved tyres. They meet Energywise criteria for both fuel efficiency and braking in the wet, so you know they'll save you fuel and money and perform when safety really counts. Here's a tip ` check your tyres are correctly inflated. It's safer and will save you fuel. If everyone used fuel-efficient tyres, we'd reduce our C02 emissions and save the country $130 million in fuel every year. VICKI: Can I get you girls to muck out one yard each? This mud is... urgh! The mud at the yards is grossing us all out. The horses' hooves get soft and they can get nasty abscesses. KELLY: It's showers for the next three days and then rain for four days straight. > We need to get them home before that. Yeah, they can't stay in these yards. > We're feeling the pressure to get them to the farm, because the longer they stay here, the more they stress, especially if they're in pain. You have to move your feet. You're too heavy for me to knock. (COOS) The trouble is we've got to be able to handle them first, and we've got a few problem horses. You don't like grass? Everybody secretly likes grass. I'm continuing with Argo until I'm sure he's too young. And I want to try and convince him to lead today. That'd be awesome. No, there's no exit. (SNORTS) My horsey's trying to leave me. Good boy. No exit. Nope. It sucks, doesn't it? No! Vicki's horse is still pretty feisty, so she's bringing out her secret weapon. But there's no telling if Argo will be best mates with the trained palomino or a fight will break out. Let him talk to it. INTRIGUING MUSIC Yep, that's fine. Just hold his head. Hold his head so he doesn't kick it. Good boy. There you go. So if you just shut the gate now... Ooh. A breakthrough, finally. There's no one size that fits all, and Argo, Doc ` they're different horses. With Doc, I'm lot quieter, a lot calmer in my approach so that he understands I'm his leader. This is called progress. (SNORTS) Good boy. DISTANT WHINNYING They need to know the rules and the boundaries. They need to know that life's OK. One by one, we're getting our hands on our wild boys. But we have to risk the trust we've gained to get them on the truck. That's us. The weather's packing in, so we've got no choice but to get them out of this mud and up to our farm. I think we get Hoff right now. Trust Vicki to start with loading Hoff first. He's the most difficult of all. He's crazy, but he's not running and attacking, though. If you drop that in the mud, they won't know. We can go backwards. WATER SPLASHING WOMAN: Good boy. HELPER: Good boy. Let's hope they won't back into each other. Put some rails up. HORSES WHINNY VICKI: Hold him. Yep, hold. Hold him. Yep. Hold. Settle down. Ooh! PANICKED WHINNYING You're such... a drama queen. It's too much for me. I'm sticking to the fence. But Kelly, she's finally growing some balls. I don't like it when you do that! Good boy. Look at you. I like you. Sometimes I hate how good Vicki is at this whole horse thing. Good boy. Oh my goodness. Aren't you special? But others aren't playing ball, so Vicki's bringing back her trained horse to show them how it's done. What we're wanting to do, girls, is get him to accept us. So, Texas is fantastic for this, because he does tell the other horses off. SOFT WHINNYING Good boy. And again. Good boy. Again. Good boy. Again. SPLOSH! Good. There. You just learned something. I'll tell you what I'm learning ` patience. It takes a few hours to load all the wild horses. Isn't this cool? We've got so much fun stuff lined up for these Kaimanawas. It's gonna be amazing to show them a different side to life. Every day is gonna be filled with fun and exciting things for them and us. 'Next time ` life's a beach...' It is amazing what they're allowing us to do. '...until the balls drop.' Nikau doesn't want his balls chopped off. There's a puncture from one of his teeth. 'And the boys bite back.' But he's terrifying! (IMITATE HORSE GROWL)