TV alert. Rose Parade ETA including the Bud Clydesdales!!!

[findeight]

Running on several networks, HGTV and Hallmark in the States. The coverage anchored by lifelong horseman Bob Eubanks (Hallnark) gives great attention to equine participants. Running now. Repeats at 1 EST. Best coverage every year. Few or no commercials, no stupid jokes and programming plugs. HGTV is decent but not as much effort to show everything and name them.

Posthumous Grand Marshall is the man in the story Unbroken, they had the USC mascot Traveler featured leading a previous Traveler i(Andalusians) the traditional cavalry tradition honoring a departed soldier. Riderless, boots in stirrups backward followed by the antique car carrying his surviving family members near the very front of the parade. Touching…but probably skipped over by more commercially oriented broadcasts.

ETA Really a treat to see the Budweiser team in the procession…and thanks to Bob Eubanks for speaking about the breeding program, 15 foals a year. Didn’t know that. Ohhh, and the Mira Mar ASBs and Michelle MacFarland for the umpteenth year. And…another cavalry memorial mount in tribute to a debated comrade from the Buffalo Soldiers unit later in the parade. And I suppose a mention of the LAFD with the horse drawn steam fire engine and the U.S. Forest Sevice and the matched sorrel Mules are in order too.

So much tradition including horses, so little remembered and honored. Nice parade for it this year and nice coverage Hallmark, Bob and Stephanie. Imagine it’s available for download or various On Demand options. KTLA is the LA station that originates this broadcast, help you find it in your location.

[Bristol_Bay]

It’s so much better in person. I just couldn’t motivate myself to stand in the 35 degree weather this morning.

[Corbyville283]

I am so jealous that you’ve seen it in person. It would be on my bucket list… if I had a bucket list.

[findeight]

Hey, I was a petal pusher popping mums and getting orchid glue in my hair for the Lutheran Laymans League that still enters a self built float…and went to Cal Poly.

I have seen three floral clad and fragrant giant mushrooms and a humongous snail trucking down a residential street on the way from build warehouse to judging and staging area 20 minutes before the deadline to be there at 4 am. Thank god I was sober…wonder what a drunk would think? Time to swear it off?

But that’s also why I HATE the broadcast network coverage that ignores everything and everybody that’s not connected to network promotional opportunities and does not provide any information on details to the hosts-too many of home don’t care.

Hey, Bristol Bay? Don’t blame you. It’s all good on Hallmark and the potty situation is better at home.

[atlatl]

Bob Eubanks; oy! “lifelong horseman” who had never heard of Appendix Quarter Horses.

Passed the Clydesdale’s caravan when coming home from Vegas over Christmas. 3 semi-tractor trailers for the horses and carriage with multiple support vehicles. Very cool.

[cloudyandcallie]

The highlight of every St Pat’s parade in Savannah for me growing up was seeing the Clydesdales. They used to stay over at Grayson Stadium when they came to the parade and my father would take me to pet them when I was a kid. Then years later I lived in St Louis where I could walk into the downtown stables and pet the horses. The Budweiser family owned a farm outside of St Louis, and the public was allowed to come onto that farm too. It was great to see the mares and foals. The then owners of Budweiser were great taking care of their horses and in letting the public have access to them. (And one of the family members used to show TBs, and had horses pictured in the Chronicle magazine way back then.)

After I moved away, someone shot one of the Clydesdale mares in foal, and the public access to the farm was then limited… I don’t know if the current owners bought the breeding barn or if they keep the horses elsewhere.

[copper1]

HGTV did a pretty good job with the horses-both Property Brothers were raised on a ranch so no dumb horse comments from them. They had their Twitter feed running and many people said how much they liked the horses!

[findeight]

[QUOTE=atlatl;7935673]
Bob Eubanks; oy! “lifelong horseman” who had never heard of Appendix Quarter Horses.

Passed the Clydesdale’s caravan when coming home from Vegas over Christmas. 3 semi-tractor trailers for the horses and carriage with multiple support vehicles. Very cool.[/QUOTE]

In his defense he does, or did, Rodeo type events. IIRC Roping and probably team penning out in the Valley, more local type stuff. Always nice. Radio and TV host since the 60s, must be 80, if he never bred anything, didn’t race and didn’t show, it’s no huge gaffe not to know. I’d still consider him a lifelong horseman since he owned and rode for so long. And he did get the information and share it admitting he didn’t know to a bazillion viewers.

[Wellspotted]

NBC did quite good coverage too, and showed all but the rope-twirling horse troop. I loved seeing the Budweiser Clydesdales! NBC commentators gave interesting info: all Bud’s Clydes must be geldings (sexism! I shouted, even though it made sense to me) and 18 hands high (commentator said inches, I converted it). Lots of Andalusians, too, in this year’s parade. NBC’s commentators did mention Appendix QHs, as well as QHs and Andalusians, and Percherons in the fire engine. Did not name the Belgians pulling one wagon (those had black polish on their hooves! Shiny but interesting-looking on chestnuts).

[PeteyPie]

[QUOTE=Bristol Bay;7934757]
It’s so much better in person. I just couldn’t motivate myself to stand in the 35 degree weather this morning.[/QUOTE]

You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

Once was enough for me! Driving to Pasadena at 5 a.m. and sitting in those cold stands for hours with a little breeze was not something I care to repeat. I went to see my son compete with his marching band. Thank goodness for recorded TV broadcasts, because when the band came around the corner, all the band parents stood up to cheer and videotape, and they were so enthusiastic that I could barely see or hear the band, much less succeed at my Where’s Waldo task of identifying my guy among all the other uniforms.

This year I watched from the warmth of my bed with a delicious cup of coffee and was happy to be able to rewind and see close-ups. The sorrel mules were my favorite!

[LLee]

Used to go to the LA county fair in Pomona, CA for the sole purpose of seeing the paltry livestock exhibits. Not even CLOSE to the plethora of animals I always saw at the Ohio State Fair when I was a kid, but at least I got to see and touch the critters. Anyhow, several times the Bud Clydes were there, and it was a real treat to stand FIVE FEET :eek: from a 2400 pound horse getting his mane braided. From a small stepladder. By a guy who weighed in at 165, at most. They are the most gorgeous animals on the planet.