Wagon Days Ketchum Idaho

08/07/2022

01/31/2022

TODAY’s Harry Smith went to south Dakota to learn how make old wagons like the settlers used hundreds of years ago.

10/14/2021

Wagon Days lost a member of its family this week. City of Sun Valley Police Chief Mike Crawford. Chief Crawford serves on the Wagon Days committee for over a decade. He never missed the Big Hitch practice.

Happy Trails Mike. You are loved and missed.

09/20/2021

Friesian History 📙

In 1989, HRH Prince Philip, consort of Her Majesty the Queen of England, invited Piet de Boer to challenge his own world record, established in 1988 in Oentsjerk, with a team of 21 Friesian horses hitched to an English Mail Coach. The event would take place in Peterborough in England, at the East of England Show Grounds, at the annual Shire and Clydesdale Show in July. The new challenge: 22 Friesians- in hand.

But that wasn't the only challenge. Plans were made for the crossing of the English Channel from Hoek van Holland in the Netherlands to Harwich in England, for at least 22 adult horses, two reserve horses and 7 foals. There would also be a demonstration in "tilting at the ring" in Friesian carriage, and so 4 “sjees" carriages had to go along. An interesting fact about the team of Friesians was that they had all been bred at the Practice School in Oentsjerk.

Prior to departure it was a coming and going of people who were in one way or another involved in the event: managers, vets, assistants, supporters and authorities. The board of the Practice School also went along, and the convoy attracted much attention, both in the Netherlands and in England.

On Tuesday 18 July, Piet de Boer drove his Mail Coach, built in London, and pulled by his 22 Friesian horses, into the Peterborough stadium, filled to the brink by fifty thousand spectators.

Walk, trot, canter... a new world record, and Piet de Boer received standing ovations from the crowd. He repeated his daring exploit on Wednesday and Thursday, and was congratulated by HRH Princess Anne, who attended the last show. This astonishing accomplishment was an enormous promotion for the Friesian horse.

Credit: Koninklijk Paarden FPS 110 JAAR

08/03/2021

WAGON DAYS FRAMED POSTERS The Spaulding Collection in lieu of our Pancake Breakfast, we are auctioning this magnificent collection

04/15/2021

Hmmmm. Anyone interested? Would make a GREAT Wagon Days entry!

02/21/2021

Looks like a promising Wadin Days entry!