The power of heavy horses will be on display at Ross Wilson and his six-strong team of Clydesdales will be at the show, taking passengers for rides on his large wagon. Wilson is a Pongakawa dairy ...

With the bitter cold weather we experienced in January, the popular toboggan slide at Eagles Mere has again been built. Our ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into the news and happenings of northern Minnesota, alongside the Canadian ...

Trip to National Western Stock Show pays off in heavyweight, middleweight championships and third-place prize in lightweight ...

Horses were and still are selectively bred for: Two draft horses pulling a plough for agricultural work. Selective breeding is a practice that has been around for centuries to enhance desirable traits ...

John E. Madden, the revered breeder of five Kentucky Derby winners and “Wizard of the Turf,” once said of the great gelding Sarazen: “When a man can breed a Quarter Horse to a plow mare and ...

In the Town Historian’s mail recently was a photograph of G. S. Vroman’s Altamont Livery Stable, sent by the Madrid, New York ...

By Shannon Lukens. The 2025 Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival is Feb. 4-9. This is 111th year of the historic event, hosted ...

Chip Roy is the My Little Pony of congressional show horses and would probably die from the exertion if he had to pull a plow in the House to get something across the finish line. I will readily admit ...

Pinot Gris' genetic roots can be traced to both France's Burgundy region and southwest Germany, and is a lighter-skinned mutation of the red grape Pinot Noir. Today, there is relatively little Pinot ...

The Brown Brothers and and their Belgians have been pulling their weight at rodeos and horse shows all over the country.