They're more of a fixture on Super Bowl Sunday than Tom Brady.
Beautiful animals that tend to keep people glued to the screen during commercials. Equine stars that come from Grant's Farm, Warm Spring Ranch in Booneville, Missouri or Merrimack, New Hampshire.
"So you could look around here and probably see several horses that have been used in commercials over the years," Amy Trout says.
She's the supervisor of the Grant's Farm Clydesdale Hamlet.
"This is Rascal, he's 9 years old and so he was in the 'Puppy' commercial."
He's the fence jumper. One of many horses used in the popular 2014 commercial. It's an audition, so to speak, that starts by figuring out what kind of horse is needed
"Is this going to be a young baby? Is this a mature horse that we need and then what we'll do is send several horses out to our animal trainer. This is an outside animal trainer and their specialty is to come in and maybe teach them the behaviors that they need to know for that commercial," Trout explains.
The trainer spends a couple of weeks with the horses before they start filming.
"So the animal trainer is looking for horses that are smart, that learn quickly and will act on cue."
Even she doesn't know which one has made the final cut until the commercial airs, but she can spot one of her horses pretty quickly.
"Oh yeah, oh yeah and that's why you have pause so we can oh wait a minute!"
Five year old Stan the Man is a bit of rising star.
"Stan's always been laid back, steady eddy, just a pleasure to work with from day one."
He was the understudy, if you will, for the baby Clydesdale in the 'Brotherhood' commercial back in 2013.
"Well Stan and Hope were born days apart and we happened to use Hope, but Stan was right there in the next stall ready to go and that's a great thing to know about our Clydesdale commercials that it's not always just one horse we have many horses," Trout points out.
One horse did all of the running scenes, another one came in for the hug.
"A lot of those horses will not go back into the hitch because when we teach them how to rear up in harness and do all of this kind of stuff not what we want to do out on the road."
So like any other celebrity they get away and get a little R and R and most of the time that's at Grant's Farm.
"These horses are the envy of the equine world. They want for nothing, they are very well-cared for."
