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On an early summer day in 2001, Mandy Retzlaff received the phone call that she and her family had been dreading. Her farmhouse in northern Zimbabwe had been decimated as a result of an furious mob of Robert Mugabe's battle veterans, who was simply tasked with generating white farmers off their homes. In just a few short days and nights, forty-five of Mandy's neighbours narrowly escaped with their lives and made a decision to leave Zimbabwe behind. These individuals would forge a fresh life overseas, safe from the recriminations of Mugabe's warmongers - yet, as they fled, they kept so much behind, not least the cherished pets and farm animals to which they had dedicated their lives. Mandy recognized that her life, and this of her family, had changed permanently. As her friend fled Zimbabwe, she had only 1 parting need. "We are in need of your help," she said. "It's our horses. Something must be achieved about our horses." It was in this second that Mandy, along with her spouse, Pat, made the decision not to reduce into fear but to attain away and help. Over the following weeks, they rescued several 104 horses from the assault of the home invasions and, in a single case, quite literally from the jaws of lions. Because they moved over the Zimbabwean countryside, seeking ever more remote enclaves of security for a herd of horses, it became clear: it was not only the family who have been rescuing the horses, however the horses who have been rescuing the family. One Hundred or so and Four Horses is the storyplot of an idyllic presence torn apart, and a story of extraordinary bonds - a love of the land, the effectiveness of a family group, and the connection between man and the most majestic of pets or animals, the horse.
