Saturday, August 2, 2008
Cirque Fligenpilz-- draft horse liberty act. Anybody know what breed these are?
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Wade G. Burck
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3 comments:
Fliegenpilz! It means "flying mushroom"!
John.
John,
Thank you. Originally I had been told that Circus Barcelona meant "flying mushroom". When I inquired what the mushrooms were flying up, they dummied up, and wouldn't say anymore. So you are probably right.
Wade
I think these are Brabants, the Euro cousins of Belgians. They come in a bunch of color variations, and are shorter stockier draft horses. We had a couple that were blue speckled (I think thats called blue roan) when I was a kid in PA. My uncle showed them at horse pulling competitions.
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