Spud and Otis are a pair of Cache Valley athletes that have trained hard over the past winter — equine athletes, that is.
They’re Belgian draft horses owned by Richmond resident Wayne Christensen, and they’ll get a chance to match their muscle against other two-horse teams on Saturday during the Smithfield Health Days horse-pull competition.
The annual event has been going for over a decade, but last year Christensen and fellow organizers took things up a notch by raising enough prize money to make it an official event in the summer circuit of the Utah Horse Pullers Association. Read the rest of the story on HJnews.com.
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