From 1924 to 1937 children of British seamen that had been killed or wounded during World War I were brought over, trained at Flock House, and placed on farms in New Zealand, to start a new life.
One of the four horses that eventually returned New Zealand out of the 10,000 that were sent overseas, she was the mount of a former principal of the training school, Colonel Charles Guy Powles.
When she died in 1934, Powles erected a memorial for her near by Flock House and this subsequently came to informally be seen as a tribute to all of New Zealand's war horses.
[2][3] Following the First World War, Edward Newman, Member of Parliament for Rangitikei, proposed that sheep farmers in New Zealand should acknowledge a "debt" to the British Royal and Mercantile Navy.
[4] In early 2010 the site was used to host Camp A Low Hum, an alternative music festival over Wellington Anniversary Weekend.