2020 Brumby 1oz SilverAccording to tradition, when soldier and pastoralist James Brumby was transferred from Sydney to Van Diemens Land in 1801, he was forced to release a number of horses into the bush. Known as Brumbys horses and later as brumbies, the word came to mean wild horses. Mobs of brumbies that most famously roam the Australian Alps today are descended from lost, abandoned or escaped horses that in many cases belonged to early British settlers like Brumby.