Breaker Morant Drive

Breaker Morant Drive is a 500-metre drive or walk that surrounds the oval in Kitchener Park, off Conadilly Street in Gunnedah. Harry Harbord Morant was born in Bideford, Devon, England in 1865 and migrated to Australia at the age of 19. They say Harry worked in Queensland and northern New South Wales as a drover and horse breaker, rumour has it he was known as 'the breaker' because of his occupation and he is said to have broken wild horses and feminine hearts with equal skill! Morant worked for a period on Pullaming Station near Gunnedah during the 1890s and local legend recalls that he rode horses over the jumps on Kitchener Park, among them a mighty horse 'The Rattler' who was owned by local businessman R.R. Prichard. 'The Rattler' was broken in by Morant and for several years the horse held the Australian high jump record. in 2002, a plaque commemorating Gunnedah's role in the Boer War was unveiled in Kitchener Park to mark the 100th anniversary of the execution of Morant and Handcock.