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Draught horse

A brown draught horse with white on bottom of legs in a field.

Draught horses were bred by pre-industrial farmers as hard working farm animals and used for tough tasks such as ploughing.

Rights: Sylvia Duckworth, CC BY-SA 2.0
Published: 17 August 2011Size: 82.78 KB
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