Jason Rutledge of Floyd County owns 16 Suffolk Punch draft horses. This is a smaller breed of working horses that many believe are the most efficient work horses ever. He put a team through its ...

There are about 520 Suffolk punch horses worldwide, the Suffolk Horse Society said The future of the critically endangered Suffolk punch horse is "very positive", the Rare Breeds Survival Trust ...

The Suffolk Punch Trust regularly shows some of its horses and carts at country events. To take a four-horse team into the show ring to pull one cart for half an hour requires: Five hours to clean ...

THE BIRTH of a healthy Suffolk Punch filly foal using sexed semen could be a huge step forward in supporting the survival of rare breeds. With fewer than 72 of these heavy draught horses remaining in ...

Suffolk Punch mare Colony Olive the Second with her newborn foal Colony Dorothy (Dotty). Picture: RUTH LEACH PHOTOGRAPHY . Colony Olive the Second, mother to four-month-old foal Dotty, died late ...

An iconic workhorse which was a key part of farming life before the advent of the tractor is set to take pride of place in promoting this year’s Suffolk Show. Organisers of the annual county ...

Suffolk Punch horses are bigger icons in the county than popstar Ed Sheeran, according to a poll to mark Suffolk Day. The critically endangered horses were voted for in a poll run by The East ...

Initially a bookkeeper and coffee shop manager for the charity, in early 2018 she moved into also helping look after their two Suffolk Punch horses, Yale and Alfie, along with her sister Emma ...

The future of the critically endangered Suffolk punch horse is "very positive", the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) has said. Figures to be published in January show there are 170 registered ...