A final pull of the comb through her mane and tail finishes the routine. When I settle into my buff-colored saddle and pick up the reins to her gleaming copper bit, Big Bea perks up, ears prick forward. This 18-year-old, mighty Percheron “flea-bitten” gray draft, sparkles ...
But just 150 fillies - the breeding Shire mares of the future - were born here last year, and 50 of these were exported to America.Shires are the best known of the four remaining workhorse breeds - the Suffolk Punch, the Clydesdale and the Percheron are the others - but every one of ...
This article first appeared in the Ojai Valley News, but the date of the edition of the paper in which it appeared is unknown. It was written by Ed Wenig. Wenig wrote for the newspaper in the late 1960’s into the 1970’s. The “iron horse” came to the valley in ’98 by Ed Wen...
Space Services, Inc was a small firm headed by former astronaut Deke Slayton that tried to develop commercial spaceflight projects such as the Percheron. Percheron A project in 1981 to develop a low cost launcher. Space Services, Inc. funded the building of a prototype vehicle by GCH, Inc. ...