Eleventh annual Draft Horse show weekend schedule

By: Sheila Crowley

Staffwriter

Experience horsepower like it was intended. Featuring the workhorses of yesteryear, the Murray County Classic Draft Horse Show offers the beauty, grandeur and sheer force of today’s draft horses.

The 2017 Murray County Draft Horse Show, July 7,8, and 9th, featuring the cart, team, unicorn, 4-horse and 6-horse hitch classes. The draft horse competition will be held at the Murray County Fairgrounds located in Slayton, Minnesota.  You do not want to miss the fun!

What started out as just a group of southwestern Minnesota draft horse friends getting together to practice driving has developed into one of the largest draft horse shows in the Upper Midwest.

In 2007, about a dozen men and women, each with a long history of draft horses, brainstormed about a way to share their knowledge of the skills, talents and disposition of draft horse breeds. Over the years, their enthusiasm to showcase the breeds for both farm work purposes and show ring action has developed into a major equine event.

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