Victor Harbor Horse Drawn Tram - Breakfast Time

The Clydesdale horses that work the Horse Drawn Tramway live on 50 acres of lush tree-fringed pastureland with their own creek. There are sheltered stables and a feed-store where a breakfast of lucerne hay (alfalfa) is served around 07.30 am every morning. Generally, 3 of the 7 horses go to work on any given day, while the other 4 graze out in the pasture with the native wildlife, or snooze under the shade of huge gum trees. The sound of the arrival of the day's carer and tram driver, by car, truck or motorbike, brings the horses galloping from the pasture, up the hill and into to the stable paddock. What the public see as calm, friendly, gentle giants, storm up the rise with a thunder of massive hooves in a daily race just for the fun of it. (Close)