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Dusty hooves churn the russet earth of a sprawling station yard in remote Western Australia, where a tightly clustered mob of horses stands within intricate white-railed paddocks. The mid-morning sunlight bathes the landscape in warm ochre tones, highlighting the rich browns and chestnuts of the horses against the sparse, golden grasslands stretching toward a horizon punctuated by scattered eucalyptus trees. Precision-engineered steel yards create a geometric contrast with the organic wilderness, revealing the calculated infrastructure essential to pastoral management in this unforgiving landscape. Sophisticated livestock infrastructure surrounds the herd - white metal fencing segmenting the space, robust shelters offering shade, and carefully designed movement pathways enabling efficient stock handling. The horses, a mix of working station breeds, cluster together with the instinctive proximity of animals accustomed to close quarters, their muscular bodies reflecting generations of adaptation to the harsh Australian interior. Wispy clouds drift across a cerulean sky, suggesting the early stages of a typically clear continental day, while the surrounding vegetation speaks to the resilient ecosystem of Western Australia's agricultural heartland.