Horseshoe horses up for auction....

4:51pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008

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HORSESHOE models of horses will come under the hammer at the Penrith Farmer's & Kidd's plc showroom at Skirsgill, near Penrith, tomorrow (July 23) afternoon.

The sculptures have been made by retired Yorkshire businessman Donald Punton, 75, who has spent the past ten years creating the horses out of cast-off horse shoes.

Mr Punton, a joiner and carpenter by trade, says that his love of all things equine is deep rooted as in his childhood days he spent the weekends and school holidays with the farm labourers who worked the mighty Shire horses on land about his home.

His collection of sculptures include a life-sized Shire horse, a rearing black stallion, two rocking horses, a blacksmith with anvil and a pony and trap.

To get the dimensions of each horse right, Mr Punton took the measurements from magazine images and scaled them up to create a chalk drawing on his workshop floor.