Greetings! Thanks to Oscar Ethington and Bill McClellan for hosting me during my recent 10 days in Florida. I met a lot of nice people and saw some great horses during my stay. While I was away one of my horses got a bad hoof abcess but the vet thinks he'll be okay with time. Looks like another year lost.
Indiana pullers reviewed our Official rules on March 1, 2008 and nothing was changed except to keep the driver behind the horses tailhead while pulling. Watch for second edition of the Official Indiana Rulebook soon. The key to protecting the integrity of the sport is to have established, written rules and then make sure that the officials are qualified, impartial and are capable of making the necessary calls.

We've got snow in central Indiana and things are slick. Worked those colts yesterday and had a fun ride on the sled, gonna have to do something different for the snow. Do a search on MGLI to see a video on the the 2007 event. It's a nice viedeo but nothing on the pull. Now that the season is over things are quite here.

MGLI

Thanks to Bill at horsepull.results.com for posting the entries for the "Big Pull" coming up . There are a lot mighty good teams and teamsters entered and it will be interesting how it turns out. I have seen some of the teams and many I have not but just for fun I thought I'd try to pick the top ten finishers of each class. They are listed below, if you see this and you want to pick-em just leave it in the comments.
My picks-lightweights:
1. Oscar Ethington
2. Yoder & Hatfield
3. Keegan & Hower
4. Lenny Hughes
5. Purvis & Mann
6. Champayne & Smith
7. Yoder & Hatfield
8. Carpenter & Harp
9. Carpenter & Harp
10.Browers&Briner

My Picks-heavyweights
1. Yoder & Hatfield- Roger & Smuck
2. Yoder & Hatfield-Bob & Louie
3. Oscar Ethington
4. McIntyre & Mahoney
5. Keegan, Carpenter&
6. McIntyre& Mahoney
7. McIntyre & Allender
8.Jerald Keegan
9.Sheldon Thompson
10.Purvis & Mann

Draft Horse Happenings

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