The Heavy Horse

We were supposed to have an elderly friend staying over Christmas but as she hadn’t been well today we took her a Christmas meal.  On the way we passed the Heavy Horse beside the M8 and this rather blurred photo of the sculpture was taken through the car window on the eastern approach to Glasgow.  It was commissioned in 1997 and designed by Andy Scott who also designed The Kelpies.  The 4.5 metre tall steel wire sculpture symbolises the Clydesdale horse which was the main workpower in agriculture and haulage before mechanisation took over.  About a hundred years ago almost every farm would have at least one Clydesdale horse but now they are used mainly for exhibition purposes.