And here comes the beer wagon...
Many travel to see famous horse icon visit in Wamego
9:47 p.m. Saturday, May 31, 2008
Wamego, Kan. — Some of the world’s most famous horses trotted into Wamego: the Budweiser Clydesdales.
People couldn’t help but grab their cell phones and cameras to catch a snapshot of their tight nuzzles and shiny coats.
But some, like Topeka resident Kathy Potter, were willing to pony up the extra gas money to see the famous four-legged beer icons.
“They look really neat going out of the old town, too,” Potter says. “You know, rather than modern buildings and so fourth. It’s just beautiful.”
Like others, Potter drove an hour to Wamego to see the horses a second time, after seeing them in Topeka this week.
“We just love them. They’re so beautiful,” she says.
Hundreds of Wamego residents lined up here to see the eight-pack team of the Budweiser Clydesdales. Each horse of this team measure up to 18 hands tall – that’s an extraordinary height, but many say it’s an extraordinary opportunity to the horses on their 75th anniversary.
“I’m not sure why we’re so lucky to get them to come, but we are, and so we’re going to enjoy it,” says Bill Edwards, who works with horses for a living. He says he learns a lot about the animals, even by observing from afar.
“Well, they’re pretty cool and they’re, like, tall,” says Cale Hupe, who’s “never seen one before. And they’re like really tall.”
Children like Cale got an up-close look of the 2,000-pound animals and their Dalmatian mascot. Each horse consumes 50 to 60 pounds of hay and up to 10 pounds of specialized grains and vitamins.
The group of horses will end up pulling beer wagons over 100,000 miles across the United States this year to promote the beer brand.
“It might be scary because it feels maybe like try to make you, buck ‘em you off,”
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