Ploughing with Clydesdale Horses

As an introduction, here is a poem, written by Will H Ogilvie

Clydesdales

The Suffolk Punch will keep the road;
The Percheron goes gay;
The Shire will lean against his load
All through the longest day;
But where ploughland meets the heather
And earth from sky divides,
Through the misty Northern weather,
Stepping two and two together,
All fire and feather
Come the Clydes!

The Hunter gallops on the lea,
The Garron treads the line,
The Hackney, touching nose and knee,
Will make the roadway ring;
But, apart from play and pleasure,
With the sweat upon their sides,
Where the furrow is to measure,
And the earth to turn for treasure,
Serfs of little leisure,
Go the Clydes!

To each the favourite of his heart
To each his chosen breed,
In gig and saddle, plough and cart
To serve his separate need!
Blue bloods for him who races,
Clean limbs for him who rides,
But for me the giant graces,
And the white and honest faces,
The power upon the traces,
Of the Clydes!

The 2007 ADHSBS State of Origin Horse Ploughing Championships will be held at the Farmfest site, at Kingsthorpe, on the Warrego Highway, between Oakey and Toowoomba, on Tues/ Wed/ Thurs 5, 6, 7th June 2007.

In the near future we hope to have more movie files of mouldboard ploughing