We got Duke to lift our spirits when our farm was losing a lot of animals to sickness and other things. He was our way of saying we are not going to back down and we are going to take a stand and keep moving forward! Duke is our mascot. He is a gentle, wanting to please guy, yet he is the leader in the herd, except for with Studly. Studly and Duke are best friends. He was bought from the same sale barn that we bought Ebony from. We were told that he used to live with an old couple. The man drove him to do maple syrup and the wife rode him around the property.