HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — “The draft horses are kind of the gentle giants, and they love the attention,” says Rodger Thoms. He’s one of the draft horse owners who brought some to the Farm Show. During ...

HARRISBURG — As Dave Hershey’s helpers worked with horsepower Sunday, they looked as busy as any Indianapolis 500 pit crew on race day. They already had washed six Percherons at the 99th Pennsylvania ...

UP NEXT, IN THE TEN DAY. THE DRAFT HORSE HITCH AND DRIVE IS HAPPENING TODAY AT THE PENNSYLVANIA FARM SHOW. AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, IT INCLUDES SOME REALLY BIG HORSES. THEY LOOK BIG ON TV.

At 8 o’clock in the morning, June 28, 1921, thousands of farmers and onlookers held their breaths as the great National Tractor Farming Demonstration and Show began. On one side of the 640-acre ...

McKenna Shaw uses a cloth to brush any remaining hay and dust from draft horse Spencer's coat, minutes before he and three other horses leave the barn for the four-horse hitch competition. INTERVIEWER ...

Ada Belle of Sequim drives a team of draft horses, Jim and Jake, along the side of Old Olympic Highway west of Sequim on Saturday. She said the horses are used for a variety of farm tasks and were ...

Phased out from their annual Sunday Preview Day driving show at the Cattaraugus County Fair, local draft horse enthusiasts are staging their own exhibition Sunday in a new outdoor arena on Route 16 ...

SLAYTON, Minn. — The seventh annual Murray County Draft Horse Show in Slayton is planned July 13-14. Twelve draft horse teams will compete for points in the North American Six Horse Hitch Classic ...

The life of a working draft horse can be a grueling and tragic one. These powerful workhorses literally pull their weight on the farm, doing all sorts of tough physical jobs from plowing fields to ...

Have you ever encountered one of the biggest horse breeds? Many of these tall, broad equines are draft horses. Due to their history, which is mostly rooted in working the land, you don’t see as many ...

A horse stands in a field as a light snow falls at BraveHearts Equine Center in Bourbon County, Ky. The draft horse rescue farm is home to over 100 horses, miniature horses and burros. Ryan C. Hermens ...

SAVOY — Kristie Lee Gentile doesn’t like to think about to the horses she can’t rescue. Since 2019, Gentile has been taking in rescues of draft horses, mules, ponies and standardbred horses whose next ...