ECDHA Spring Plow Match

The Eastern Connecticut Draft Horse Association (ECDHA) Plow Match is Saturday, April 16, Saturday at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Start time is 9 a.m.

Fee, $10 per teamster. Open to members and nonmembers; spectators welcome. Judge to be announced.

Food concessions, ribbons and trophies. Bring your own lunch. For more information, call Dale Naegeli (860) 742-7117

Timeless Team: Eastern CT Draft Horse Plowing

Watching a team of draft horse and their driver pull together to work a field - the scent of freshly plowed earth and the sky above a perfect blue - what a treat.

This skill of horse and human takes concentration and teamwork to turn, plow a straight furrow, turn again, and work together.

More about this competition and the Eastern Connecticut Draft Horse Association (many participants are from the New England region), coming up.