Trojan Heavy Horses have appeared in films as far back as the 1992 epic 'Far and Away' where our crew dressed as coal men handled Scottish Clydesdales in the sidestreets of Temple Bar in Dublin, which had been transformed to look like nineteenth century Boston, the American city into which the characters played by Tom Cruise and Nicloe Kidman landed into.
More recently one of the Shires (top left pulling the wagon) from 'King Arthur' in 2004 was sent to our stable to be trained in all types of field work. This service we offer to owners of heavy horses who want to have a draught animal that will be as useful and confident working in woodland and farming environments as on the road.
In 2006 two of our heavy horses were in Ken Loach's 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley'.
In the scene outside the courtroom pictured above, we had a horse pulling a brewery dray.
This dray horse was bred from an Irish Draught/Clydesdale mare crossed with a Shire stallion.
In another scene, dressed as a priest, I can be seen driving a Clydesdale down a mountain road carrying a group of escaped rebels in a cart.
This dray horse was bred from an Irish Draught/Clydesdale mare crossed with a Shire stallion.
In another scene, dressed as a priest, I can be seen driving a Clydesdale down a mountain road carrying a group of escaped rebels in a cart.
