St Helier's heavy horse: Muswellbrook hosts field day to keep heavy horse traditions alive

Simon McCarthy
Updated January 30 2019 - 4:30pm, first published May 18 2018 - 9:00pm

Leroy, a two-year-old Clydesdale, has hooves the size of dinner plates. He stands as tall as an average man at the withers, and his mane falls to his nose which, when it's not curiously exploring everything around him, fits neatly in two cupped hands.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.