Adrian Reggie Condon Adrian Reggie Condon and his granddaughter

Portrait of Adrian Reggie Condon: Everybody says my father was the greatest horseman going, that’s where I got started. I love horses as well. My dad and my mum used to travel around from station to station doing cattle mustering. They had a horse and cart, they’d travel all around the Pilbara. When my dads would take off droving cattle they left all the ladies home. Then it was left up to my mum and her sisters to take over the horse riding, to keep the station running. They used to love riding horses. I learned to ride a horse at a station called Kooline, I was sixteen. I was always interested in riding horses, so the old man asked me if I wanted to get on a horse, “yeah, no worries”, then I got frightened - the horse was that high. The horse can feel that I’m frightened so that horse panicked and knocked me off. The old people were strict, very hard. They told me to do it; if you don’t do it, get back there and do it again. If you don’t do it, go for a walk. If you get thrown off a horse, get back on. If you don’t get back on, go back and wash the dishes. It was a very hard life.

Portrait of Adrian Reggie Condon with his granddaughter: Everybody says my father was the greatest horseman going, that’s where I got started. I love horses as well. My dad and my mum used to travel around from station to station doing cattle mustering. They had a horse and cart, they’d travel all around the Pilbara. When my dads would take off droving cattle they left all the ladies home. Then it was left up to my mum and her sisters to take over the horse riding, to keep the station running. They used to love riding horses. I learned to ride a horse at a station called Kooline, I was sixteen. I was always interested in riding horses, so the old man asked me if I wanted to get on a horse, “yeah, no worries”, then I got frightened - the horse was that high. The horse can feel that I’m frightened so that horse panicked and knocked me off. The old people were strict, very hard. They told me to do it; if you don’t do it, get back there and do it again. If you don’t do it, go for a walk. If you get thrown off a horse, get back on. If you don’t get back on, go back and wash the dishes. It was a very hard life.