All of these aspects are directly detrimental to horses’ welfare. Training a horse to pull a 1,000-pound carriage is a difficult and time-consuming process, with no guarantee that the horse will be up ...

Since carriage drivers do not have the time, facilities, or funds to train a horse to pull a 1,000-pound carriage, they purchase horses who are already accustomed to pulling a carriage. Such horses ...

HARRISBURG — It takes big horses to pull 9,700 pounds of cinderblocks. Pistol and Jerry, with a combined weight of 5,400 pounds, proved up to the task Tuesday night at the 109th Pennsylvania ...