Horse and Carriage

These horses were the ones we rode behind during our tour of the island. They are very large - one standing 17 hands. They can pull three times their weight in dead weight (dragged). Apparantly the island uses these kind of horses instead of Clydesdales because they are stronger. According to our driver, that's why it takes 8 clydesdales to pull an empty Budweiser wagon. The only problem that I could see was that the driver didn't have a very good view all day.

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