Ranchers and farmers who bring their draft horses to the Calgary Stampede say it is good to be back to normal after missing the show entirely in 2020, and contending with a reduced event last year.

The horse was competing in the Crapaud Exhibition draft horse pull — which is a competition where teams of horses pull a weighted sled across a dirt track. Sid Nickerson, who owned the horse ...

Draft horses are experiencing an upsurge in popularity this year. "It used to be just me and a couple other guys,” Al Sargent, superintendent of the competition, said Wednesday.

Classy.” The arguments in favour of draft horses always boils down to economics, Reichert said. “The problem is always the same, it ends up being about the bottom line,” he said.

Mac is a 24-year-old retired draft horse who spent 11 years pulling wagons at Heritage Park, before he “retired” in 2022 to see out his days on a ranch south of Calgary.