WHEN YOU SAY 'HORSE' CLYDESDALES TO ROMP AT FAIR.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Among the biggest entries in today's Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fair parade are eight 2,000-pound Clydesdale draft horses draft horses see draft animals. , pulling a 19th-century Studebaker wagon. Budweiser's gentle giants are making an appearance at the Antelope Valley Fair, marching in Marching In is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of the US publication 'High Fidelity', with the stipulation that it be 2,500 words long, set twenty-five years in the future and deal with an aspect of sound recording. daily parades around the grounds and in between letting people look at them in their stalls. ``They're real docile. Their size intimidates a lot of people but they're great to work around,'' said driver and handler Dan McNally. The team - plus a ninth horse as a spare - is based at San Diego's SeaWorld - one of six teams the brewer maintains around the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . They travel the West in three custom tractor-trailers with their handlers and a Dalmatian dog (Zool.) a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog. See also: Dalmatian . Each horse's brass and leather harness weighs 130 pounds. Together, the set of eight is valued at $70,000. The horses get daily grooming and a weekly bath, which they were getting Thursday at the fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. , hitched two at a time outside their trailer as handlers went over them with hoses and brushes. ``We put in a good five hours to get the horses and equipment ready before we hitch up hitch up to harness a horse to a vehicle or implement. and that's with five people working,'' McNally said, pausing from polishing a harness. Hitching up the team to the wagon takes another hour. The handlers repeat the process every day. At the fairgrounds, the Clydesdales will pull their wagon around the grounds daily at 4:30 p.m. - except for Thursday - and at 2 p.m. on weekends and Labor Day. Today's parade along Lancaster Boulevard will begin at 9 a.m. at 10th Street West and will run east to Sierra Highway. More than 80 entries are registered, including equestrians, antique and custom vehicles, floats and youth groups. The fairgrounds will open at noon today for the second day of the 11- day fair at 2551 W. Ave. H. Headlining at 7:30 tonight will be country music entertainers Jo Dee Messina and Phil Vassar. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos, 2 boxes Photo: (1 -- color in AV edition only) Royal Wilkie, a handler with the Budweiser Clydesdale team, hoses down a member of the team on Thursday. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer (2 -- color -- ran in AV edition only) Tracey Scott and her daughter Ashely work at their scarecrow Scarecrow goes to Wizard of Oz to get brains. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ignorance Scarecrow can’t live up to his name. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Am. entry, which won Best of Show. See Page 2 Box: (1 -- ran in Valley edition only) IF YOU GO (2 -- ran in AV edition only) ANTELOPE VALLEY FAIR SCHEDULE |
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