Covered Bridge Clydesdales

Covered Bridge Clydesdales was established in the spring of 1980. The idea of the covered bridge came from Turkey Run State Park in Chris Nestor's childhood home state of Indiana. As a young man he often visited these covered bridges, where he saw the lasting strength, beauty, and craftsmanship of the covered bridges still in existence at that time in Indiana. It is that honest durability, standing for over one hundred years, through all seasons, is what he has symbolically patterned into his Clydesdale breeding operations. This has then evolved into the ethics of everything Chris Nestor does.

The Clydesdale is a breed of draft horse derived from the very hard-working farm horses of Scotland, and named for the River Clyde. Thought to be over 300 years old, the breed was extensively used for pulling heavy loads in rural, industrial and urban settings, their common use extending into the 1960s when they were a still a familiar sight pulling the carts of milk and vegetable vendors.

"For to do the Country Good"
"And one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry,
and the nights are seen to draw colder.
They'll beg for your strength, your gentle power,
your noble grace and your bearing
So wake the dying city with the living horseman's cry
Thrill to the sound of all the
heavy horses coming home"

Jethro Tull