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They can find Arnold hexam grew up on a farm near walk-on Iowa in the northeast corner of the Hawkeye State after graduating from eighth grade he worked on the family farm and became an auctioneer along with three partners he started the Waverley sales barn in 1947 eventually ending up with sole ownership of the business these were unkind times for heavy horses the mechanization of Agriculture that followed the war proved detrimental to them not just here in the US but everywhere horses were sent to slaughter in enormous numbers even the farmers who had kept that last team were letting them go in the name of progress we're not for a few dedicated breeders in smattering of farmers that dared to buck Convention and the Amish communities draft horses would have been lost in antiquity a couple that setting with the fact that the plucky young auctioneer that started a sale barn in Waverly Iowa was just 34 years old himself you have a pretty good idea of how crazy his idea of holding a draft horse sale must have appeared but that's what hexam wanted to do and that's what he announced for March in 1948 not surprisingly most doubted that he could even find enough horses to sell let alone attract buyers for them but they were wrong Arnold's hunch if that's what you could call it was right not only were there buyers for all the consignments the good ones sold for more than even the most optimistic consigners expected almost immediately hexam sale became a rallying point for those enamored by big horses and it was exactly what was needed to reinvigorate this industry it did wonders to put heavy horses back into the public spotlight and the excitement it generated further fueled what can only be described as a renaissance the people in the seventies used to buy they use the horses to work with prey jazzed-up today its own show and you got to know just exactly what you got to do to get them people that kind of horses right now we're just driving have here to show off the works and how they're driving to stop his sedges around here Larry and Jerry and they're making remarks and how the horses are driving as they see him at that time back and swing in and hits in and driving a big crowd here today you can see a lot of people here today and we'll start here right at nine o'clock late an on the nurse spreader about the only thing they they don't clean the barn with them stuff what is it about waverly sale that keeps drawing people back why I think the antiques that they have out there the the horse-drawn carriages there's always different stuff there so I think with all the the carriages and stuff that go along with the whole deal you can come here and buy a harness you can buy a pretty much any antique vehicle you want and there's some users of unusual stuff that sells hear anything from bear traps to you name it and so I think that's what brings people back as they see a lot of interesting things like that plus there's a lot of broke teams here and there's...