Draft horses wait as they are being judged during the Draft Horse Hitched Competition at the 2015 PA Farm Show on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.

Draft horses are experiencing an upsurge in popularity this year. "It used to be just me and a couple other guys,” Al Sargent, superintendent of the competition, said Wednesday.

The Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge, Mont., is offering the public a chance to see the Beaverslide Hay Stacker method, a historic way of creating large hay ...

“There are less than 5,000 of these Spotted Draft Horses in the United States,” said Meg Enslin who, with her husband, Scott, has several of the breed at their Benchfield Farms.

Except for the draft horse accident, Hilwig proclaimed this year's fair a big success. More than 61,000 attended the four-day event at the fairgrounds south of La Plata, he said.

I mean, people don't realize that these horses are draft horses. They're bred to work.” But some say these horses shouldn’t be out working the streets of downtown San Antonio, in the Texas heat.