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Tin Horse Highway, Kulin, Western Australia
Some of the many weird and wacky creations featuring a horse theme along what has become known as the Tin Horse Highway, to the west
of Kulin, Western Australia
Soon after the Kulin Race Day was commenced as an annual event, the idea of tin horses to promote the race day held at Jilakin was
devised. The first tin horses appeared in 1994, and they have proved to be such a tourist drawcard, that the numbers grow every
year.
For around fifteen kilometres east of Kulin, novelty horses have been made from junk and displayed in paddocks alongside the road.
With a wide verge in most places, I was able to stop and pull off the road to photograph a number of their weird and wonderful creations when passing traffic, which was mainly road trains carting grain, allowed. This is known as the Tin Horse Highway, and new statues are still being added. There are further horses to the west of Kulin, known as West Kulin Tin Horses, but that was not on my route.
Old motor cycle and quad cycle have been used in this display at left of "Horsome Fun" with horses Tom and Hick horsing around.
Below
left is a horse driven chariot, entitled "Ben Horse - A Charlton Horston Epic"
Above left, a horse has bucked the rider off, with only the legs showing indicating the rider has gone head first ino the dam bank.
Above
right is a horse in an exercise bike, :Ex-horse-izing".
A horse with tracks above left.
Tennis player "Fillypoosis" above
right.
"Ned's Horse, Ned Kelly style above left.
Rock and Roll to the Juke box above right.
A "grand-horse" above left.
Celebrating 21 years of Kulin Race Days at Jilakin (2015) above right.
A dart throwing horse above left.
Joggin' to Jilakin Rock, above right.
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