Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 23
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We got home about 2PM, & had lunch, & on my suggestion that we went up to the yard to brand the calves, he said "oh dear no, they might get over heated". It was too late next day after we had branded all those calves to muster Lagoon Camp. We had 16 brood mares, & a grade Arab Stallion BEN ALIF by ALIF out of a brood mare, those mares never had a spell, but bred year after year, & each year as those yearlings were fit to wean, after getting over the branding etc., they were bred with the other young horses in the Lower Paddock at the LAGOONS. No old brood mares nor old ? to steady them. Don't know if all Arabs were naturally wild, but Ben Alifs were like brumbies in the bush, & they galloped & galloped, in the lower paddock. Taking them in from Cobra to Miriam Vale to brand on one occasion, a filly foal of a quiet old grey mare, galloped away from the mob, if we had gone after her we would have probably have had to run her down