Displaying early in his career an interest and skill with stud livestock, Wesfarmers accelerated his training by sending Preston to the heart of the Australian sheep industry, to the F.S.Falkiner & Sons family property in the Riverina area of New South Wales, owners of the famed Boonoke, Wanganella and Wanganella Estate studs, for a two-year apprenticeship, initially as a jackaroo, then stud groom.
