There is something awe-inspiring about big, heavy horses. Bred to help till the soil, pull carriages and wagons, or carry ...

A horse died Sunday night while pulling a cart through Tucson's Winterhaven Festival of Lights. Details were sketchy, but one witnesses said the horse appeared to have been spooked by a large ...

from pleasure riding to wagon pulling. The Belgian is an enormous and powerful horse well-suited to pulling heavy loads. The average Belgian draft horse size ranges between 1,800 to 2,000 pounds ...

Other types of draft horses include Clydesdales and Shires. Historically, Percherons were used to pull carriages or heavy farming machinery. Percherons were also used as military horses for ...

constant heavy loads, and lack of access to pasture. All of these aspects are directly detrimental to horses’ welfare. Training a horse to pull a 1,000-pound carriage is a difficult and time-consuming ...

After his May event was washed out, the Yangan heavy horse lover is hoping ... "Hopefully there will be a fancy wagon here with a team of horses," he said. "I'll have eight horses going in a ...

Clydesdales were bred to pull heavy wagons. The breed originated in Scotland. JACKSON TWP. − A horse is a horse, unless of course, it's one of the world famous Budweiser Clydesdales. The ...