This exhibit has been interesting and fun to work on. I have learned that the horses that the knights in armor rode during the Middle Ages were used as the foundation for the breeding of what was officially recognized as the Clydesdale horse breed in 1826.
The Clydesdale is a giant among horses with the nature of a teddy bear. A very gentle and kind sort of a horse. They were bred in Scotland to do anything that required pulling of weight such as ploughs, wagons and carts. The Clydes weigh between 800 to 1000 kilograms.
The Clydesdale pulls weight that is attached to the collar around its neck. Just by leaning a bit forward and walking ahead he can pull several times his own weight if it is in a cart or wagon.
The background to the exhibit is a 8 m X 2.4 m photograph of a farm scene in Matamata. The main feature in the exhibit is a lifesize photograph of a Clydesdale from Pirongia Clydesdales. The horse will be cut out so just the horse shows in front of the farm scene photo. The photograph is 1.7 metres high. Very cool!
The Clydesdale Horse broke in New Zealand with some 30,000 Clydesdales in use in the South Island by 1840. The tractor has replaced the Clydesdale horse on farms today but the breed is alive and well in show rings, pulling and ploughing contests.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment