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Heavy Horse Show

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  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502
    Lovely pics Scroggin, beautiful horses🙂 Looks like you had good weather for it too.
    Wearside, England.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2018
     <3  <3<3    Thank you Scroggi ...  I just love heavy horses ... when I was a child the farm next door to ours till had a working pair ... I was sometimes allowed to sit up on Blackie while the farm worker was on the 'tumble' forking out the manure as Blackie walked slowly up and down the field  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Being a saddler, my grandfather always "dressed" the heavy horses for the local agricultural show.
    SW Scotland
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  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Lants, harness, mane and tail.
    SW Scotland
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I adore that  cob (third from last) ... that's my sort ... a ride  & drive cob <3

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Lovely creatures, but spare me the plaits and ribbons.  They look so much better with their manes and tails flowing free.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    And braiding manes and tails is a way for working horses to be equipped to work in muddy conditions without the need for a huge amount of washing and grooming at the end of the working day ... much better for them 🙂. Dressing them with ribbons etc for the show ring is just an extension of that and shows the skills of the horseman in caring for the horses 🙂

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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