Every stall in the Horse Barn at this year’s Iowa State Fair has been occupied and Clydesdale and Percheron draft horses have arrived as their National Shows get underway today.
Noah Levy is the Horse Barn Superintendent, which means he’s in charge of the two-acre, 12-aisle barn. “It’s about as big as we can get. It’s about as many horses as we can put in the barn,” he said.
Levy started volunteering in the barn in 2017 to help out a friend and this is his third year as superintendent. “You know, you want friends with boats, you may not want to own your own boat. I do this so I don’t have to own horses,” Levy told Radio Iowa early this morning hours before today’s shows began. “For me, it’s about the people and the horses are a bonus.”…