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Draft Horses for Sale

Owning a cold blood can be a great joy, there are tons of clubs and activities geared around all of the things draft horses excel at doing and there are tons of great breeds to choose from.  They generally...

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Horse Pull at Denton Farm Park, Denton, NC76

Horse Pulling

I arrived at Hunt Horse Complex on the North Carolina State Fair Grounds early. I walked around the barn area looking for my friend who had insisted I bring my camera to the Annual Southern National Draft...

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Will Sweet Feed Make Your Horse hyper?

In 2008 Science Daily, "Sweets Make Young Horses Harder to Train", published an article based on equine nutrition research done at Montana State University. The researchers studied twelve young (the article...

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Belgian Draft Horse

In this site, you will find pictures, videos and history about the Belgian  Draft Horse. A little definition of the Belgian Draft Horse, this horse is also called the Brabant. This is the area of Belguim...

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Clydesdale Draft Horse

Probably the most recognized of draft horse breeds in American, thanks to beer and football, is the Clydesdale. Staring in some of the Super Bowl's most memorial commercials, the Clydesdale hitch is well...

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Friesian Horses for Sale

The first reason I would say no to any draft horse is the cost of them.  I can keep a nice saddle horse of any breed cheaper than any draft or light draft breed can be kept for.  The vet charges more for...

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Clydesdale83

How Big is a Draft Horse?

While most people think of big when they think of draft horses, it is more a matter of what the horse does than its size. That being said, the majority of draft horses are large in size, as the work they do...

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The Percherons of Cuauhtemoc

The Percherons of CuauhtémocOne of the most beautiful sights now missing from the British countryside must be that of the great carthorses which worked our fields for hundreds of years, before the advent of...

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Networking in the Writing Business

The journey of most writers is taken by a series of steppingstones, with one step leading us through a network of editors, fellow writers, markets and often some very unlikely contacts. Learn how to take good...

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Draft Horses

The term 'draft horse' is a type of horse. Not a breed of horse. A draft horse may be any one of the heavy horse breeds, such as the Clydesdale, Shire, Percherons or Suffolk Punch. Or a cross breed of these. All of these breeds originated in Great Britain and continental Europe.

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