The popularity of the Super Bowl spot has certainly piqued the public’s curiosity around the training of Budweiser Clydesdales and how they spend their early years.”
“On some other days there is limited availability. “Some tour dates, particularly Saturdays in the spring, already are sold out,” Knapper said. This includes Hope, the star of Budweiser’s award-winning and top-ranked Super Bowl commercial, and Stan, the first-born foal of 2013, named after all-time MLB great Stan Musial. Jeff Knapper, GM for Clydesdale operations for Anheuser-Busch, said that, through March 27, 17 baby Clydesdales had been born at Anheuser-Busch’s state-of-the-art Clydesdale breeding farm, which is home to more than 100 Budweiser Clydesdales. The farm, where more than 35 baby Clydesdales are expected to be born this year, is open for public tours. “They like to be scratched.Today marks “opening day” of the Budweiser Clydesdales’ Warm Springs Ranch in mid-Missouri. “The mares will come right up to the wagon,” says Soto. VIP guests take a tractor-pulled wagon to three separate pastures, where they can see breeding mares, young mares, and young babies/mares.
A VIP tour is also offered for up to 16 visitors and costs $500. According to Soto, more than 26,000 guests visited the ranch last year. “People have seen the Clydesdales on TV, and then they come see them in real life and how majestic they are-it’s very neat, especially when the horses are young.” “I just like that people come,” says Warm Springs Ranch supervisor John Soto, who has worked with the Budweiser Clydesdales for 37 years and been a fan of the horses since he was a kid.
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Visitors 21 and older can enjoy two free beers after the tour. Expect to meet a few handlers, see the Clydesdales’ harnesses, luxury trailer, a 1903 beer wagon, and take a picture with Duke, a retired Clydesdale. The tour costs $12 per person and lasts 90 minutes. So pack your camera, load up the kids, and take a road trip.įrom March through October, guided walking tours are offered twice a day on every day but Wednesday at 10 a.m. This year marks the 83rd anniversary of the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales. Roughly 85 Clydesdales of all ages are at Warm Springs Ranch now, including Mac, the first born in 2016.įor the eighth season, the public is invited to experience these prized baby horses at the ranch. Spoiler Alert: It’s even more beautiful than the Budweiser Super Bowl commercial depicts.įemale Clydesdales stay at the ranch and are bred after three years while the boys are weaned at five months, moved to Grant’s Farm until they are 3 years old, and then moved to the New Hampshire training facility for a year before going on the road touring as an official Budweiser Clydesdale. Warm Springs Ranch, a 300-acre, state-of-the-art breeding facility, is the birthplace of every Budweiser Clydesdale seen nationwide in a parade or on TV, as well as at local attractions like Grant’s Farm and the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. It's where it all begins for the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Remember Budweiser’s tearjerker Super Bowl commercial in 2013 featuring a newborn baby Clydesdale, later named Hope, who was born and trained only to leave the ranch and join the hitch? And the beautiful red barns alongside the picturesque rolling hills featured in the commercial? Yeah, that’s a real place.
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