The resurgence of interest in the Suffolk punch is thanks to the dedication and hard work of farmers, breeders, volunteers and enthusiasts working together to promote the breed. philip Ryder Davies, retired breed secretary comments: “The next time you drive past the Trinity park statue of the Suffolk Punch, or see it reproduced on the badge of Ipswich Town Football Club, remember it is part of the county’s cultural heritage and one that we should all work together to preserve or it will be lost forever.”
The Suffolk Punch foal and her mother used on the promotional material for the Suffolk Show are named poppy and passchendale, in reference to the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War One, which will be commemorated later this year. But it was really the years of austerity in the aftermath of the Second World War when the decline in numbers of Suffolks took hold. Many of the small East Anglian farms could no longer afford to keep heavy horses, and even though the larger farms of East Anglia would sometimes need forty to sixty working horses, the rapid implementation of mechanised agricultural equipment meant that the horses quickly became redundant.
For more information please contact www.suffolkpunchtrust.org
The Suffolk Punch has been part of the Ipswich Town Football Club badge since 1972
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