The Suffolk Punch Trust: Breeding historic horses | RIDE presented by Longines

Meet the gentle giants packing a historic punch! 🥊
In the new episode of RIDE presented by Longines, we visit The Suffolk Punch Trust and learn about its fight to preserve the endangered draught breed that helped build Britain! 🇬🇧
These colossal cuties are guaranteed to win your heart! 🧡
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[@MGTOW222]

Thank you for your efforts to preserve this hard-working breed. My grandfather worked Punches in Melbourne Australia for most of his life. He loved his Punches and swore by them, working teams off the wharves till 54. My Father, who went to work with his Dad told me GF occasionally linked 3 teams together and was quite a sight hauling massive Timber Beams through the city streets to the Mill.

[@1daySomeday]

The main key is the companionship the horse offers that cannot be replaced and that is the very thing to invest into keeping the breed of that kind of horse existing. They can still be of remarkable use mainly because there are places and conditions that machinery cannot go nor do well that Suffolk Punch Trust can. For example, murky ground to haul and pull out things that are stuck. Often times tractors and other machinery get stuck and it is more of a hellacious mess that cannot be resolved but for one solution and that is a draft horse strong and sturdy enough to get the job done! I love and appreciate your heart invested in all this and your style of attitude.

[@annjohnson8437]

This was very interesting! Thank you for introducing people to this rare breed. ❤

[@randybutler4772]

Excellent delivery of this very important breed information. Thank you for sharing the particulars of this outstanding draft breed on both sides of the Atlantic. Their temperament makes them so very special.🐴

[@whichkatami]

My Granddaddy and my father both grew up on the same farm in the Ohio Valley, USA. Their farmland that their ancestors, (Scottish Conscript soldiers), were given for fighting in the American Revolution, as well as their citizenship. By 1950’s my dad’s kin were still using only horse power, their primary horses were drafts, my dad favorite was a Suffolk Punch. My dad and his 5 siblings rode the Punch and a Percheron to a one room school house everyday, after they arrived at school, my eldest uncle would tie the Percheron to the Punch and the Punch would lead them back to the farm. In the afternoon, my grand daddy would tie the Percheron, Crusher to the Punch, Puller and he’d lead the, back to the school to pick up all the kids. Though my dad’s kin eventually got a tractor, they always kept the draft horses, (and still do), we all know drafts can go and do when the snow is deep and all machinery frozen and bogged down, in my dads time Ohio regularly got appx 10’, (3.05 meters), of snow annually. The stories my siblings grew up hearing of people settling this nation are incredible and I am glad the S. Punch was part of it. In the 1700’s the state of Ohio was dangerous Indian country, settlers often spent many a night inside the a local stockade to avoid being raided and or slaughtered. My Scottish ancestors on that farm lost all their neighbors one night who didn’t think an attack would occur and they didn’t go to the stockade, 5 families perished. Thank you for preserving the legacy of the S. Punch, that helped and help humans generations and the world.

[@GlenkaScott-p6w]

Wow, thank you for talking an interest in a special horse breed and trying to bring it back. Such a huge beautiful horse.

[@bikecameraaction3334]

At Gressenhall in Norfolk you can take a ride on a cart pulled by Suffolks. Great for kids and adults!

[@bikecameraaction3334]

I was there last summer to see the foal born 2 days earlier. Beautiful little fella

[@kelleencrowl191]

My favorite breed of draft horse. Thank you for sharing. Need to get this breed more into the limelight. 🥰

[@11buleria]

I would love to ride a Suffolk horse. I can see they would make good riding horse as well as in harness.

[@1daySomeday]

One more thing i desire to add, the draft horse breed always thrive on having something to do. It completes them because it is in their blood , that is what they had been selectively breed for is hard griding work. Over time without having that something to do they do not do well physically and mentally. They want to be out there for a few hours daily pulling and working. it makes their rest and play time far more fun and fulfilling.

[@emmawilde152]

Horse Plus Humane Society just took in a horse that looks like it could be a Suffolk Punch. I don't know how he could have ended up as a throw away. At least he didn't go to slaughter

[@astamalanskiene7776]

I love that breed, I slept with them, they feel me, I don't want sex, I love horses, I adore them, my grandfather had horses and foals all his life, I drew foals, I taught them life training, sometimes they bit me, but nothing, I'm from Lithuania, I live in Edinburgh, I'm nostalgicbuy a ticket😂

[@JoseJimenez-ri8um]

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[@benediktehoffkjeldsen6801]

FEI Thank you for sharing this video and let us know about this rare breed 🐎🤎 I did not know anything about them. Suffolk Punch Trust and Sue Goward - I wish you all the best in the future. Kindly regards Benedikte from Denmark 🇩🇰👋