Opening with a 7 day-old Clydesdale foal standing up, while paying the classic song "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. This combination of song and scene tugs on one's heart strings. As the viewer watches a farmer caring for the foal, they are easily shown the close relationship between the two. The farmer feeds the foal with a bottle, halter breaks him, and plays with the colt. At one point, the colt breaks loose from where he is tied and finds the farmer and lovingly butts him with his head.
It appears the young horse is sick as the farmer tends to him as he lays down. The next scene shows the farmer laying down and the horse nudging him, showing how the man has stayed with the horse the whole time, making sure he was going to be okay. The bond is strengthened when the farmer is driving along the fence with the now grown Clydesdale galloping with him.
A "Budweiser Clydesdale" truck then pulls up and loads the horse up and drives away, leaving the farmer in the dust as he waves "bye" to his beloved friend.
"Three years later" is shows the same man reading a newspaper saying "Budweiser Clydesdales coming to Chicago" and him driving to see the horses in a parade. The viewer sees how excited he is when he recognizes the horse he raised, and then how sad he is when the horse trots by and does not acknowledge him. As he dishearteningly walks away, the blinders are taken off the horse and he looks back at the farmer. He breaks away and gallops down the road, the farmer seeing him in his mirror. He gets out and stops the horse, embracing him in a hug. The two are finally reunited, creating a sweet scene that makes the viewer happy, maybe even cry...
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