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 ...

Attendees walk between workshops at the Draft Animal Power Network's 2024 field days event. Credit: Carole Wiley for DAPNet Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for essential news each ...

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.

Draft horses are returning to Mackinac Island, signaling the start of the 2025 season. Businesses are set to open on schedule despite damage from a late-March ice storm, though some trails remain ...

Local residents can feel a rumbling in east Loveland this weekend with the continuation of a classic draft horse show. The Loveland Thunder draft horse show, put on by Western States Classic, will be ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On their way to watch a rodeo, Dennis and Jean Kuehl got distracted by another kind of horse event — a 40-horse team of Belgian draft horses waiting to pull ...