Duke the Moving Machine

This is the superb Percheron stallion, Yoder Farms Duke, who will be offered in the First Start Acres Production Sale, June 9 & 10, 2011, in Milverton ON, Canada. Many of Duke's daughters, mares bred to him, and 2011 foals will also be available in the sale.

Duke is available at stud until the sale.

Join us on Facebook at "First Start Acres Sale", and visit the web site
http://theknoxfarm.com/Welcome.html

UPDATE: Duke was the high selling horse, for $20,000, at the sale! He was sold to John & Margaret Northcote. See Duke's web site here:
http://www.yoderfarmsduke.com/

Video a production of http://www.horsephotos.ca
Music by "karaokesongs".

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Pets & Animals

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• horse
• percheron
• first start acres
• yoder farms duke
• sale
• draft horse
• stallion

[photoelle]

GoodRebBlackRatio, the show style for modern draft horses is very fancy. It is what it is, like any other competitive breed show style. I'm not a farrier, but if you every get a chance to talk with a draft horse farrier, maybe at a fair or show, they could give you a lot more info about it. It is very specific to draft horses, I've noticed most light horse farriers who have not learned it know little or nothing about it.

[photoelle]

He is wearing a very common draft horse shoe called a "scotch bottom" shoe. It is not a correction shoe. This type of shoe and the shape of the hoof is standard for draft show horses. It is quite different than any light horse shoeing.

[Valkyrie91a]

Duke is my favorite Percheron and every time I see this video I love him more! Attitude, movement, beauty; Duke has it all! 

[GoodRedBlackRatio]

@Steedrider Unfortunately I think you're right - many thing in the horse world are about appearances rather than a healthy animal.

[GoodRedBlackRatio]

@photoelle Thank you for that answer - after looking up some info about scotch bottom shoes, I see they sure are used to create more movement or a more exaggerated step. I also read a few pages that explained how it gave a larger surface area to contact the ground - now, this isn't what this video is about, but that all sounds ridiculous to me. Hooves are not mean to be square, and the largest surface area is the entire bottom of the hoof, without peripheral loading and a fancy step..

[Steedrider]

I don't know if this is true but my suggestion would be that it's similar to show shoeing of TWH and ASB. It's supposed to make him move 'bigger'. Whether or not this method is applied in this case - it's generally a rather disgusting fashion.

[GoodRedBlackRatio]

Anyone else think his hooves looks strange? Almost like.. heavily flared out, especially in the front hooves. You can also see in many of the stills his toes are very long, which may be the reason for his very high step? Unless he was trained specifically to step like that - but I know that horses with long toes will bring their feet up very high to avoid tripping. ...last, he seems to have a very bizarre horse-shoe, almost square in the front - I wonder if these are rehabilitation shoes?

[MrNatha91]

also das sieht schon n bisschen zu krass aus -.- bei solchen pferden will ich ja nie wissen wie die das beigebracht bekommen haben

[violanceangelshate]

@sorornoctis ja echt, und ne rossige stute seh ich auch nirgends ,da is doch was faul.

[sorornoctis]

@violanceangelshate Sieht komisch aus, oder? Hab mich auch gewundert, vor allem weil sein Gang für n Percheron doch ganz schön krass ist und nicht so gaaanz natürlich aussieht