{"id":4835,"date":"2025-02-17T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2025-02-17T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:43:30","slug":"budweiser-clydesdales-fair-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/archives\/4835","title":{"rendered":"Budweiser Clydesdales \u2013 Fair 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-medium wp-image-4836 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/megastorytales.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/02%5C/f9d0f076072e3bc0f3eb01bb602affd4-300x225.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"300\"' height='\"225\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/f9d0f076072e3bc0f3eb01bb602affd4-300x225.jpg' https: sizes='\"auto,'>\n</p><div data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div id='\"ng-transcript-item0\"' class='\"ng-transcript-item\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"' data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"ng-transcript-item-text\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"text-container\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>[Travis Graven] The Budweiser Clydesdales turn heads wherever they go, and that&rsquo;s\u00a0 certainly true at this year&rsquo;s fair, where they tour the fairgrounds every day at 5:00\u00a0 p.m. But these Clydesdales embody perfection, and the preparation to get them ready\u00a0 for public viewing starts hours before. (Music) [Brady Janssen] That all starts at 7:00 in the morning.\u00a0 All the horses will get fed their hay and grain and watered, and then they\u00a0 go out for some exercise. About an hour walk every morning. And then they&rsquo;ll\u00a0 start the grooming process. They&rsquo;ll get\n\n\n\n<div data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div id='\"ng-transcript-item1\"' class='\"ng-transcript-item\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"' data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"ng-transcript-item-text\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"text-container\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>all their white feathers. The hair\u00a0 on their feet is called feathers. And so they&rsquo;ll get that wash every day that\u00a0 they see people. And then we&rsquo;ll groom them. We&rsquo;ll cuff off the dust and actually vacuum dust\u00a0 off of them and get them nice and presentable. About an hour and a half before we start our\u00a0 parade, we&rsquo;ll start braiding their manes, putting a braid into their manes, putting roses\u00a0 in, and really kind of classing them up a bit. And then they come to the truck here. This\u00a0 is what we call our harness truck. So the\n\n\n\n<div data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div id='\"ng-transcript-item2\"' class='\"ng-transcript-item\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"' data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"ng-transcript-item-text\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"text-container\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>wagon rides in here and the harness for the\u00a0 8 horses. And it&rsquo;s all leather and brass. So every day that brass needs to be polished.\u00a0 And that&rsquo;ll take 2 people about 4 hours. We&rsquo;ve been traveling the country since 1933 just\u00a0 promoting the beer and the beauty and how majestic the Clydesdale is. We are actually\u00a0 the West Coast Pitch. We have 3 traveling teams, and we all travel\u00a0 about 300 plus days a year. So we&rsquo;ve been everywhere this year, from\u00a0 LA to Phoenix to North Dakota. And right here at the Iowa State Fair. It&rsquo;s probably\u00a0 one of the most rewarding things \u2014 is seeing\n\n\n\n<div data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div id='\"ng-transcript-item3\"' class='\"ng-transcript-item\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"' data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"ng-transcript-item-text\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"text-container\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>the reaction from children or all the way up\u00a0 to people that have been watching our famous Super Bowl ads since the 80s. All these guys\u00a0 are at least 18 hands or shoulders, which is 6 foot. They average about 2000 pounds\u00a0 apiece. They eat about 30 to 40 pounds of hay, 10 quarts of grain, and about\u00a0 30 gallons of water per day. And you can&rsquo;t describe how big they actually\u00a0 are. But with that, you also can&rsquo;t describe how gentle they are. The Clydesdale as\u00a0 a whole is a very docile breed. And so they&rsquo;re very well natured in that way. I grew up\u00a0 in Iowa, so I grew up coming to the state fair.\n\n\n\n<div data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div id='\"ng-transcript-item4\"' class='\"ng-transcript-item\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"' data-v-03286f38='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"ng-transcript-item-text\"' data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>\n<div class='\"text-container' expanded data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>And so to be back, especially since\u00a0 we do most of our traveling out west, it really hits home. And it makes all that\u00a0 hard work that we put in early in the day, worth it towards the end. The\u00a0 reactions that we get out of people, they are either looking straight up at the\u00a0 horses or they have their phone out taking pictures and really capturing the moment. And\u00a0 that really makes everything that we do worth it. And all the early mornings and late nights\u00a0 of caring for these guys all comes together.\n<div data-v-fb474a08='\"\"'>\n<p><iframe loading='\"lazy\"' title='\"Budweiser' clydesdales fair width='\"735\"' height='\"413\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.youtube.com%5C/embed%5C/gbP0vDxEkc0?feature=oembed%5C%22" frameborder='\"0\"' allow='\"accelerometer;' autoplay clipboard-write encrypted-media gyroscope picture-in-picture web-share referrerpolicy='\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"' allowfullscreen>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Travis Graven] The Budweiser Clydesdales turn heads wherever they go, and that&rsquo;s\u00a0 certainly true at this year&rsquo;s fair, where they tour the fairgrounds every day at 5:00\u00a0 p.m. But these &hellip; \n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megastorytales.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></iframe></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>