Marriott family's draught horse dynasty keeps Clydesdale tradition alive

Max Marriott used draught horses to plough his fields until the 1960s. By then, tractors and trucks had largely replaced these once-essential workhorses.

"When I left school, I drove horses. We were still ploughing with the horse. We had tractors, but the tractor sat in the shed most of the time," recalled Max, now 82.

"The horse was good. He was just like a tractor, he'd go all day and work."

The Marriott family's devotion to Clydesdales was especially strong.

The family had market gardens in Bentleigh, a Melbourne suburb. Max's grandfather and father had relied on heavy horses to pull cartloads of vegetables to market.

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Article written by: Tim Lee