My registered Clydesdale mare was a wheel horse in a six-horse hitch for the first 15 years of her life. Now I've broken her to saddle and use her as a trail horse. She's 19 hands, which is ENORMOUS even for a Clydesdale. When I ride her on the road, cars stop, people stare, and you feel like an absolute celebrity. Everyone knows what a Clydesdale is, but this breed is threatened. In 2019, fewer than 200 Clydesdale foals were registered in the UK, so Clydesdales are in real danger of extinction in their country of origin. The US has the most Clydesdales, with about 600 (and dropping) registered a year. I would LOVE for more people to recognize the athleticism and versatility of these magnificent, intelligent horses: you can drive, trail ride, do dressage, hunter, even low-level jumping! They are kind and loyal and gentle as can be. I'm fairly young still and I refuse to see this breed disappear in my lifetime, so I'll do anything I can.
Great information. Your love for the breed is incredible. I also road and loved a Clydesdale as a teenager. Plus being my Buddy he pulled a buck rack. (Easy job for him.)
My Grandpa was a Teamster his whole life. He drove horse and buggies to deliver ice in the summer and coal in the winter back in Minnesota. Congratulations to all the teams! Great work!
Very beautiful. I was born in 1948 and we still had horses on our farm as a kid growing up. I was fortunate to have worked a team of Percherons as a youngster. My most memorable experience was as an 8 year old when the team bolted from seeing a snake. My father intercepted them on the fly, a scene right out of the movies.
These Horses have Massive Power, and SIX Driving at once is so awe inspiring and beautiful to watch and witness. I am glad it still is a part of our times.
Amazing. I was born in 1939 on a farm in Pennsylvania. Can remember having some great horses working the fields...before the big tractors. In my teens we housed a six team hitch that toured the for Ideal Foods around the state. The care and work for harness and animals was a 24 hour job. In the morning the left in the big trucks with their dog Ideal a beautiful dalmatian. Sometimes my little brother. Getting to know the staff and seeing them perform in our little town with my little brother and Ideal up on the beautiful wagon. WOW. Years later I found the Ideal hitch at Knolaws Grocery in St Paul,MN. Most of same staff still with them. Ideal had tangled with a skunk and had to stay behind for a tomato juice bath. Long story I love thinking and talking about. I think home base for the great team was in Illinois.
This is Amazing. Absolutely Stunning horses...I LOVED EVERY SINGLE ONE!!! YES, It would be difficult Judging these. Also I loved seeing the two young stunt riders. Thank you, I am HOOKED on watching these.
The format is disgraceful. They're trying to make this like a stoopid ball throwers broadcast. It's a unique event, luckily with no violent "colorful" people, that showcases a longstanding tradition in the USA. What's next? A Superhorse Bowl with beyonce singing about her disgusting "wet ass" body parts? There's a Goldsteinberg somewhere in the back office production crew just waiting to pervert this tradition.
Another bonus for the Clydesdales - less knee action means they waste less time picking their feet up and putting them back down, thus, they walk faster and logging, plowing, in fact most work involving working horses,, the Clydesdale will get the job done faster when it has to be done at a walk!
So far I have only seen 3 minutes of this video and jumped forward to minute 33 to see if it was still the same and what I have seen is unnaturally high and expressive leg movement achieved from what seems to be very heavy and thick shoes and even hooves that seem to have been manipulated to have an unnatural wide, flat cone shape. Nevermind the docked tails. All the wasteful high movement. I love draft horses and these are beautiful horses. Why not show their natural movement??!! I am out. If anyone wants to see beautiful draft horses pulling carriages in a less pretentious, but ten times more fun setting, I encourage you to search for "Titanen der Rennbahn".
The Amish had set up a lumbermill behind my home, and once they left for the day, I walked back to see how much they cut. They left their critter in a temp pen, a giant Clydesdale. I'm 6' and I couldn't see over its back. It was intimidating being so close to an animal that large.
Absolutely love watching these videos. Narrator is fantastic. So much great information on showmanship from drivers hands handling these beautiful animals. Great information on the different breeds. So much talent and great training. Hope to make it to a show. Think I have better knowledge to watch.
The teams were outstanding. So much team work from the people drivers, assistants and those on the ground including commentators and the audience. You can feel the enthusiasm and it leads right onto the horses. Wonderful show and a perfect winner out of heavy competition. Congratulations to each team for a job well done and to the winners your team is certainly outstanding, deserving of the World Championship win!. Great show.
Wow this is beautiful! I live on my moms horse boarding farm in NC but I've never seen a draft horse there but I've seen the Budweiser horse team in person and they were amazing as well.
I used to drive a team of belgiums. My grandmother used to show a very good hackney pony and I started out as her footman. I went to Munroe Washington thirty years ago to the big draft horse show with these six horse teams pulling the full loaded beer wagons. None of the draft teams were going with that high stepping and high head carriage. I noticed when the one belgium team was entering the ring it is on a bit of a downward slope and each time the left front horse bumped into its pair. I think that that high head carriage and high stepping would not be safe on unlevel ground such as hills. Nor would it be sensible for the horses to waist their energy with the high stepping when the wagon is full with something heavy. I prefer the clydesdales because they were steadier and they didn't have such a high head carriage and high step. Honestly, the others look too much like the hackneys and it doesn't make sense and it's not true to form. It's too much and the horses will also develope neck muscle on the wrong place - the underside of their necks. That knee action is not natural.
I used to think high stepping was just for show, but noticed that my draft horses did better in deep snow than did daisy-cutters like Thoroughbreds. They left single hoof prints, like moose, while the others had to push the whole leg through the snow. The same tendency would help in mud. Everything is exaggerated in the show ring, but there is a function to it.
Wow first time I watched I love it.....passed it on, love to see this in person it’s now on my bucket list, this and of course the Budweiser teams..... I always say someday......dreaming.....
Unbelievable !! This is the first production I have ever seen with the "Gentle Giants" Coming from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in Africa, I was completely blown away by this competition. Spectacular, is the only other adjective I can use to explain my feelings !! God Bless you ALL for your contributions in this truly spectacular competition !!
@@catherinegrace6406 A mane and tail is there for a reason. People remove them because a human has decided it looks good. Humans are a cruel species as we don't care how much we damage an animal as long as the animal looks like we want them to. Take a look at dog shows to understand my point.
I always root for BRD, but Young Living is great fun at the shows by giving samples of their oils and having a basket full of them by a drawing! Seeing these gentle giants in person is beyond words. Congratulations to Young Living and their magnificent geldings.
I hope to be Sarah one day ❤ I love percherons soo much. I cant wait for me to own maximum 8 (not to many haha I think 8 will be more thay enough) and do what she does. Travel the world and show while being a feminine
to all the people who helped.... like the farrier who put the long toes and weighted shoes on them to force a more animated leg lift.,,,, why can't horses be appreciated for their naturally beautiful movement
Belgums will work their soles out i hear males will always eather be good horse or bad horse mares have. Good days and bad days and when fealing good the right mares are amazingly good at work what i hear
I know its tradition to cutt the tails off, but it is a bit of a bummer, is there a way to modernize and just braid the tails tight like an andalusian horse? I get that the purpose is to avoid equipment getting tangled in the tail.
@@feathersong5838 how is that comfortable. They use their tails to deter flies on their rump and legs. God forbid you forget fly spray. They use it for communication in a herd setting too. Poor things.
Agreed! They could put a second set of rings on the breeching to keep the reins up. At home, my draft-farming friend would thin the tail. It could still swat flies, and would grow back if left.
Oklahoma, bible-belt country where they call accomplished women "girls" & the host keeps saying "them" instead of "those." So, not a lot of sensitive intelligence there; say nothing about not masking up for a worldwide pandemic. 🙄
It would be nice if a family farm had a legit chance to win this corporate taken over event. ( Was there ever a time when Young or Express didn't win these big shows🙄)
@@janinecarson8380 draft horses don't have this high leg movement naturally. High leg movement in general is a show off behaviour you can see with stallions trying to impress mares. But this is not that. You just have to watch the first 3 minutes of this video carefully to see not only very thick and heavy horse shoes (1:39), but also hooves manipulated into an unnatural shape (that very wide, flat cone shape(0:41)? Not natural). This show doesn't showcase natural behaviour but what happens when your horses shoes are too heavy and unwieldy. Try running in diving gear and see how you will lift your legs.
