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A Risky Birth

Janice Kirkpatrick is on an extraordinary quest: save the iconic Clydesdale horse from extinction in the very place it was created – Scotland. In a high-risk mission she travels to the heart of the Canadian Prairies to bring back a pregnant mare, in an effort to rejuvenate the Scottish herd. Kirkpatrick has worked night and day to ensure that her new mare, and its unborn foal, are healthy, but there is one major hurdle she needs to overcome.

Keeping Clydesdales

Janice Kirkpatrick loves Clydesdales. She’s trying to save the iconic Scottish breed from extinction in its homeland, acquiring a pregnant mare from Canada to help rejuvenate the Scottish herd. But this new mare isn’t the only Clydesdale Janice and her husband Ross own — they have three more. “Horses are hard work,” says Kirkpatrick. “Double that for Clydesdales.”

Unexpected Inspiration

Janice Kirkpatrick and her husband Ross have their own Clydesdale horses and Janice is trying to save the iconic large breed in its homeland of Scotland.

But Janice does much more than raise Clydesdales. She’s also a renowned designer and her passion for horses — Clydesdales in particular — have influenced the work she creates at her design firm in Glasgow.

Unsung Heroes

In her quest to discover the history of the Clydesdale horse and ensure its future, Janice traveled to the WWI battlefield of Vimy Ridge. Here, thanks to the personal journal of a Canadian soldier, she discovered an unsung hero of the Great War – the Clydesdale, and other draft horses like it. While many focus on the cavalry horse that carried men into battle, military historian, Graham Winton, knows that “the real heroes were the powerful draft horses, especially the Clydesdale.”