Eight of the horses walked through the Washington County Fair
Park grounds for H.O.G. Haven, the official campground of
Harley-Davidson's 105th anniversary. Harley enthusiasts on
several-hundred-pound bikes gave wide berth to the 6-foot-tall,
2,000-pound, iron-shod hitch horses. The Clydesdales nodded their
heads and peeled back their lips to flash smug smiles at onlookers
and the handlers who scoop their manure.
Kayla Alexander of Wilmington, Ohio crouched to one side of them
with a camera, frustrated because she couldn't catch their grins in
a photo. Alexander has seen the Clydesdales four or five times at
the Ohio State Fair, but it's still a treat to see the animals.
Once, she said, she went to the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis
and saw some of the Clydesdales at rest on a farm.
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