When police followed a "foul smell" on a property in Bulla, what they allege they found was horrifying: "Piles of dead horses".

The property was allegedly littered with horse bones and decomposing bodies. Out the back, police allege they found another horse graveyard with the bodies of 23 more horses.

While many horses on the property were allegedly starving, six to eight bags of horse feed were found in a fenced-off stable, police say. But even that would not have been enough to feed the horses on the property for a single day, police say.

Mr Bruce Akers, a 63-year-old former Olympic wrestler who competed for Australia in 1972 and 1976, was initially charged with more than 90 animal cruelty offencesafter police made the discovery on what they allege was his Bulla property on April 3 this year.