If you don't know who the Budweiser Clydesdales are, chances are you've never been one for the Super Bowl or American beer. The Clydesdales are a group of beautiful horses used in Budweiser's advertising campaigns, and they're kept at the amazing 340-acre Warm Springs Ranch in Boonville, Mo. The company owns 250 Clydesdale horses today and is trying to breed the perfect Clydesdale, with a bay-colored body, white legsand dark mane and tail, reported KSDK.
A new addition to the Clydesdale family was born on Jan. 26, and he's cute as a button. The little horse's name is Mac, and he'll train to be a Budweiser Clydesdale, reported CNN. By four hours old, John Soto, the head breeder and caretaker, had Mac up and feeding, because horses get their immunities from their mothers' milk, said KSDK.
How did the whole horse tradition start for this beer company? August A. Busch Sr., the original owner of the brewery, received six Clydesdale horses from his two sons in 1933 as a celebration of the end of Prohibition. The horses were used to pull a wagon full of Budweiser beers through New York City, gathering a crowd of thousands, explained the Budweiser website.
Today, the horses sometimes pull the Budweiser hitch wagon, but mostly they're used in the company's ad campaigns, especially in the longer Super Bowl commercials. Here are three of the gorgeous horses' most famous commercials. Hopefully we'll see Mac in one of these soon!
