Happy Friday to you all. Here is your Friday Flashback (and were any of you at these shows that year?):
“The year Royalton Ashbrook Darling was thirty, I took him to the All Morgan Show in Maine and he was on television. The Lippitt Country Show was to be the next day, so Ashbrook and I headed out at 9pm, after the sun went down, and drove all night to Randolph, Vermont. At his last show, the Lippitt Country Show, his final win was to me a great tribute to a horse’s ability to show what he has done. Old as he was and not overfat due to his heart, he came into the ring hooting and hollering and stood at the head of four of his sons and daughters, all out of different mares, with several other beautiful Lippitt stallions and their get. When the class was called, the announcer Marilyn Childs said, ‘Judge Barbara Cole’s choice for the Blue goes to Royalton Ashbrook Darling and his get!’ Among his peers, he showed what a super producer he was.”
From: LCN Vol. IX, No. 4, p. 2 – July 1982: “Royalton Ashbrook Darling – A Lippitt Profile” – by Dana Wingate Kelley.
