“Don’t say ‘go,’” Delmar Town Chair and Horse Pull announcer Dave Peterson told attendees to the 2021 Francis and Pat Derks Memorial Horse Pull in the disc golf course Sunday June 20. “It …
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“Don’t say ‘go,’” Delmar Town Chair and Horse Pull announcer Dave Peterson told attendees to the 2021 Francis and Pat Derks Memorial Horse Pull in the disc golf course Sunday June 20. “It sounds like ‘whoa’ to the horses,” he said. “Again, let their teamster talk to them. That’s who they’re listening to.”
In case a century-wide gap in terminology should lead to confusion, a ‘teamster’ in context is a 'horse driver,' rather than someone affiliated with the unions. Peterson’s admonition came as
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