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 ...

Suffolk Punch Horse Farming “Come up, gentlemen,” says Jason Rutledge. The two red draft horses heave forward into their collars. The field cultivator–called a rear-end wiggler–lurches ...

A Suffolk Punch foal is the first in the UK to have been born using technology to determine its sex. The filly, born in Whitchurch in Shropshire, was conceived using sex-sorted sperm. There are ...

Along with a third horse named Sunny Boy, the 11-year-old horses stand 16 hands and weigh more than 1,600 pounds. “Suffolk Punch draft horses, they are the rarest breed in the world,” Heisler ...

Mike Beddow is training Suffolk punches - one of the least common breeds of horse and said to be rarer than the panda - to work his land at Hollow Oak Woods in Ratby, Leicestershire.

Among them was a distinctive and beautiful heavy horse, the Suffolk Punch. A rich chestnut colour, the stallions stood well over 17 hands high (a "hand" is four inches) and weighed in at a ton.

“They’re very rare,” Spann said. Called the Suffolk Punch, he said there are only about 900 registered in North America. “But we’re hoping to change that.” Barnica added, “They aren’t high-steppers ...

Suffolk Punch horses are classified as "critically endangered" by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. The horse, called Besthorpe Peacetime, is five years old and stands at about 1.8m (6ft) tall.

Suffolk Punches at Rede Hall Farm. Pictured is Nigel Oakley. Picture: GREGG BROWN . Nigel and Christine Oakley estimate they are a down at least £25k as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lee the Horse Logger, a traveling horseman who has spent nearly two decades on the road, made a stop in Cutshall Park on Wednesday, July 2, accompanied by his 19-year-old Suffolk Punch draft horse, ...