Super Bowl "˜love story"™ features local Clydesdale

Millions of people have watched the Budweiser Super Bowl commercial “Puppy Love,” now deemed the most successful commercial of the sporting event, with over 37 million views on the internet alone. The ad depicts a love story between a Labrador puppy and a Clydesdale.

The commercial features a herd of Clydesdale horses, including “Alex,” born on Rosedale Farm in Ennotville. Susan James and her husband David sold two of their Clydesdale geldings (Alex and Andrew) to Budweiser over a year ago, and just weeks before the Super Bowl commercials were released on the Internet, the couple was notified one of their horses was in the production, which was filmed in California. Alex is 18 hands high, a dark bay horse with four white feathered legs and one brown knee on his left leg.

Alex has two proud “mothers”: dam Candy (a mare that remains on Rosedale Farm and is pictured here with Susan James) and Susan herself, who says, upon hearing of Alex’s role on television, “I was as proud as Brad Pitt’s mom.”