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Heavy Horse World Spring issue

• The Spring 2013 issue is another bumper 76-page issue, out just before the National Shire Horse Show, Peterborough on 15-17 March! Essential reading to enjoy just before the season starts. Here’s a picture to enjoy from the edition.

• This is the annual Big Shows Issue, featuring Heavy Horse World’s 2013 Events List – the UK’s biggest listing of heavy horse shows, events and matches – plus information about shows all over the country! Unmissable for anyone interested in Britain’s heavy breeds!

• Win tickets to the Shire Horse Show, take advantage of our £50 voucher for training for commercial horse operators, and enter the competition for a set of three mane rolls from Heavy Horse Decorations.

• It’s a great issue for ridden heavies – not only is one on the front cover, but there are articles about Cumbrian Heavy Horses - the only heavies-only trekking centre in the world - and about one of our top ridden heavies, Gairloch Challenger. Plus there’s a book to win on ground training exercises for ridden horses!

• If riding and shows are not your thing there’s plenty on the working horse too. Discover how an upland farm was improved by horse; enjoy a feast of wagons from the John Harris dispersal sale, and find out everything you wanted to know about Lincolnshire muck hills!

• If you are new to working heavies and want to know about traditional horse-drawn farm implements there’s the first of a two-part series from Museum of English Rural Life honorary fellow Jonathan Brown.

• Plus, new working horse paintings, a profile on one of our new(ish) Shire showmen, and an article on one of the breweries still using Shires to deliver beer.

• Also, purchase a book in its second edition, The Suffolk Punch, by Edward Hart with revisions and additions from the Suffolk Horse Society, plus go to our Heavy Horse World Shop to see our full range of titles including The Working Horse Manual, Heavy Horses, Goodbye Old Friend, The Clydesdale Horse and a host of DVDs.

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Holbeache Stud - Third Production Sale of Suffolk Punch Horses – ‘The biggest sale of the century of Suffolk Punch horses’ for Mike Clarke & Daughter.  Saturday 1 June 2013, at 12 noon.  Holbeache Farm, Trimpley, Bewdley, Worcestershire DY12 1PA (Tel 07831 674018).  Comprising 1 stallion, two geldings, eight fillies, three mares and one filly & foal.  Auctioneers McCartneys LLP, The Heath Meadow, Nunnery Way, Worcester.  Tel 019-05 769770. 

Email worcester@mccartneys.co.uk. 

Also, 10^th Trimley Heavy Horse Festival & Companion Dog Show at Holbeache Farm.  Sunday 28 July, 2013.  Signposted off the A442 Bridgnorth-Kidderminster Road.

Heavy Horse Power!

Well done Martin Clunes and the team at Buffalo Pictures for producing an excellent programme on working horses on ITV on 7 February.  HHW was involved at the research stage for the film, and it was great that it hit just the right tone.  It was good to see footage of Clydesdale breeder Ronnie Black and training for Martin and his horses at Robert Sampson’s farm in Hampshire.  It’s the first time working horses have hit prime-time TV, and will have done the cause a power of good.