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    What was your all time favorite team of horses? Whether it was something you owned or something you just enjoyed watching.

silver and molly

Anything that Dale Benam or Max Ledyard would come to Hamburg NY with was exciting to watch. Especially if they both showed up!!!

That is a no brainer for me. Years ago going to horsepulls here in New England with my parents my favorite was Ed Crowell's Tom & Diamond team driven by Dan Reed. They were the most dominate team I ever saw. If they showed up they seemed to win everytime. I recall one day witnessing the Hi-V Ranch team driven by Harold Montgomery beating Tom & Diamond in Durham. I was devastated. Didn't matter that the Hi-V team was much bigger then Tom & Diamond. I couldn't believe that they had been beaten. I'm sure they had been beaten before but to an 8-9 year old kid who admired them so it was hard to see them lose.

how about a great pair of greys named bill and tom that won who knows how many straight pulls with out getting beat.. They were owned by John Hall. and they weighed just over 40 hundred they also won countless 3 horse hitches with a horse named harry

Bill & Tom. No doubt an outstanding team of horses. But Tom & Diamond accomplished one thing that Bill & Tom did not. They went out to Michigan and won the National Championship. Quite an accomplishment for a 6 foot team from the East. I believe the only other time that a heavyweight team from New England has gone out to Michigan and won the National Championship was when Dan Reed did it again twenty years later with Bob & Scottie.

Derwin Vaill - Dick and Shorty (71 blues 3 reds never weighed 4000)
Fred Cook - Silver and Molly
Danny Reed - Tom and Diamond
Dick Wallingford - Rock and Dick

Slow down boys You are all forgeting about tootall and dan they won so many 3400 lb classes I can't even remember.. I think 6 straight roundup's

tootall and dan were the best of the best 3400 Ib team no dout

I think Chuck Shaafs Barney and Don where maybe the best middleweight pair in the country back in the late 80s and early 90s. Barney was one of the great pulling horses of all time.

They were a awesome pair of horses, that once in a lifetime kind of team we all dream of owning. Both horses are buried on Schaaf's hill side on the farm they loved with each having huge head stones in their memory. These two horses truly loved this man as he loved them in the same way!

On Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 03:26 AM MAS wrote:
I think Chuck Shaafs Barney and Don where maybe the best middleweight pair in the country back in the late 80s and early 90s. Barney was one of the great pulling horses of all time.