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Shires Return to Burton
Shire horses have returned to Burton-on-Trent where the new National Brewery Centre was opened in May. Two young Shires have...
Liverpool Cart Horse Memorial Unveiled
The Liverpool carters finally have their memorial to the city’s working cart horses, with the unveiling of the life-size bronze statue of a Shire opposite the Albert Dock on 1 May. The 13-year campaign...
Suffolks spearhead a heavy horse business near Winchester
Ness and Andy Morris are making a business from their interest in Suffolks, along with some Friesians and Gelderlanders. Based on...
London Harness Horse Parade
The magnificent sight of 100 horses and carriages celebrating the harness horse took place once again on Easter Monday at the South of England Showground, Ardingly, with...
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Summer 2010
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Win tickets to the Shire Horse Show 2010!
Heavy Horse World has 10 pairs of adult tickets to the National Shire Horse Show on 20/21 March to give away...
Riding Heavy Horses
In a major feature Heavy Horse World explores the development of a new discipline for heavy horse enthusiasts – riding. Discover how...
New training framework for the harness horse
The British Driving Society (BDS) has completed work on the first two phases of its new training and qualification courses, offering ‘pathways’ for the heavy horse enthusiast and...
Liverpool Carters' Monument to be unveiled in May
The Shire Horse Society has contributed the final sum needed to ensure the completion of the Liverpool Carters’ Working Horse Monument. The statue is expected to be unveiled on 1 May, the traditional day...
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Spring 2010
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Shire Horse of the Year Championship 2009
The Shire Horse of the Year champion for 2009 is John Wilkinson’s Hainton Charlie Girl. She took the honour at...
Great All England Ploughing Champion 2009
Southern Counties Heavy Horse Association Great All England Ploughing Champion for 2009 is John McDermott, who won the short turn furrow class with...
2009 Heavy Horse Turnout Champion
David Curtis and the Middleton Percherons took the second annual Heavy Horse Turnout Society Championship at Equifest at the East of England Showground, Peterborough. David lifted...
A second revival for the working horse? Leading the way in Cornwall
With new national training qualifications for heavy horse work underway one part of the UK has been quietly beavering away on new modules and ways of encouraging more people to work horses and ponies. The Cornish Horse Power Group has...
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Winter 2009
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New Design for HHW
Heavy Horse World’s Autumn issue includes a number of design improvements and new features, including...
Owen Garner wins Royal supreme driving championship
Owen Garner with his unicorn of home-bred Percherons from his Willingham-based Hales stable in Cambridgeshire, won...
Ensuring the long-term survival of the Suffolk horse
The Animal Health Trust has begun work on a project to develop a sustainable breeding programme for...
Harnessing a pair with modern breast harness
John McDermott demonstrates how to harness a pair with...
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Autumn 2009
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National Shire Horse Show Bryan Banham’s two-year-old Acle Brigadier took the National Shire Horse Show stallion championship and King George V Cup at the...
North West & Wales Shire Foal Society’s 30th anniversary
The North West & Wales Shire Foal Society celebrates 30 years of selling at this year’s show and sale at Wettenhall, Cheshire on...
Percheron society’s breeding grant hit
The British Percheron Horse Society (BPHS) has lost its annual grant from the Horserace Betting Levy Board following...
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Summer 2009
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Martin Kerswell, 20, of Buckfastleigh, Devon, became one of the youngest ever ploughing champions when he took the Southern Counties Heavy Horse Association’s Great All England Ploughing Match title. Nineteen when he took part, Martin...
Waldburg Shires have been busy during the winter period.. Their team of six drew the Lord Mayor of London’s...
Sportsmail’s. award-winning photographer Andy Hooper took...
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Spring 2009
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Paul & Walt Bedford took the Shire Horse of the Year Championship with Acle Delma’s Double D in September at Peterborough. Indoors at the East of England Agricultural Society’s...
The Midland Shire Foal Society celebrated 50 years with its golden jubilee show and sale in September and a 50th anniversary dinner dance at the home of its chairman, Jim Yates and his wife, Sue, of Farnah House Farm, Duffield, Derbyshire in August. This year’s show was...
With the launch of a new society for European heavy breeds in the UK this autumn, a Comtois has been judged overall champion at a British show. At the Working Horse Trust’s Eridge Heavy Horse Show...
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Winter 2008
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Percheron mare Willingham Marie received The Royal Show TopSpec Supreme In-Hand Equine Championship for the second time for Gordon Bailey who exclaimed: "I'm over the moon!" She also took...
Meanwhile Willingham Marie’s brother, Willingham Axl, who took the British Percheron Society breed show stallion championship this year, demonstrates that heavy horses can turn their hoof to anything. Robert Sampson is pictured hunting...
A new society to look after the interests of owners of European draft horse breeds in the UK is to be established. The inaugural meeting will be held...
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Autumn 2008
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Richard Bedford's six-year-old Boothay Richard, shown by his 19-year-old son, Robert, won the National Shire Horse Show stallion championship and King George V Cup at this year's Spring Show at the East of England Showground, Peterborough. Held indoors in the new exec building...
Coors Brewers Ltd announced the closure of its visitor centre in Burton-on-Trent and its long-standing Shire horse operation in March, two days after the Coors dray took the single horse turnout championship at the National Shire Horse Show, driven by head horseman, David Coffen. The centre will close on 30 June, but...
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Summer 2008
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A new society has been formed to further the interests of turnout and in-hand harness showing. The Heavy Horse Turnout Society (HHTS) was...
Heavy Horse World's five-page free Events List is included – as usual – in this Spring issue, enabling heavy horse owners and enthusiasts to plan their year ahead and enjoy the best of heavy horse activity. Any events...
British heavy horse cross-country driving enthusiasts are busy training their horses for the 1008 La Route du Poisson in France on 18-21 September. The commemoration of...
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Spring 2008
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The Lord Mayor's Coach was pulled by a team from Waldburg Shires in November, The first time....
Robert Eddy drove 10 working Shires at the Cornish Horsepower working day at Trevaban Farm, Marazion, Cornwall this year. Driving them all....
The British Festival of the Working Horse 2012, is to take place on 8/9 September at Windsor Great Park. Promoted by....
Shire breeder Ray Williams's dispersal sale in September was topped by Moorfield Sarah selling for £9,400 to J Walsh, Birmingham. However....
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Winter 2007
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Ray Williams is to disperse his Shire stud on Tuesday 18 September....
Capespan Shires took the supreme driving championship at The Royal Show this year....
HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited Cotebrook Shire Horse Centre in July....
A major festival of working horses is to be organised in 2012....
After 35 years running the Norfolk Shire Horse Centre, West Runton, David and Jonquil Bakewell retire....
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Autumn 2007
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The 2007 National Shire Horse Show takes centre stage this issue....
Young's famous black Shires live on, with head horsekeeper Kevin Flynn launching his own business....
Wadworths Brewery of Devizes, Wiltshire, is now the only remaining brewery regularly delivering beer by horse and dray....
Shires and Clydesdales have both moved to a rarer category in the latest Rare Breeds Survival Trust's Watchlist....
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Summer 2007
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Heavy Horse World Magazine celebrates its 20th Anniversary with the publication of the Spring 2007 issue....
Heavy Horse World's free Events List covering five pages is included, as usual, in this Spring issue....
The Suffolk Punch Trust took part in the Lord Mayor's Show in November as part of the entry from the Worshipful Company of Farriers....
Elspeth Ross is to continue with her Shire business following the death of her father, Andy Ross, but it will in future be known as Waldburg Shires...
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Spring 2007
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Jamie Mason's Grange Farm Lady Fiona took the 2006 Shire Horse of the Year Championship at Stafford in September....
The Devon-based Willis family had a triumphant day at the Wessex In-hand and Harness Championships....
The Black Shires of Young & Co Brewery – which has sold its Wandsworth site and is moving to Bedford – carried out their last ever beer deliveries....
Make the case for horse power – says Heavy Horse World contributor Edward Hart....
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Winter 2006
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A British Percheron has taken the Royal Show supreme championship for the third year running....
The famous Young & Co Brewery's black Shires are to be phased out by October 2007 ....
Suffolks in the UK with American blood are to be registered by the American Suffolk Horse Association....
Shire breeder Jim Higgins of Oldham, Lancashire, is nurturing twin filly foals....
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Autumn 2006
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