Happy Friday! Here is your Friday Flashback:
“No account of beautiful mares at Green Mountain Stock Farm or any other Lippitt farm could fail to give attention to the two sisters, subject of this article (Lippitt Dusky Kate and Lippitt Duplicate).
Being by Lippitt Ethan Ash out of Lippitt Kate Moro, they carried the blood of the foundation animals. The sisters were remarkably alike in looks, but actually there were many differences. Dusky Kate was a beauty, a real show mare, but she was simply not interested. Her show career was in-hand, such as Grand Champion mare at the Lippitt Country Show for the owners who had bought her from Greem Mountain Stock Farm at the ’52 auction.
Duplicate was the opposite of her laid back sister. She was extremely nervous but gave it all she had. Eventually she left the ring for the life of a broodmare with a change of owners.
It is a great loss for Lippitt breeders that the blood of these two gorgeous mares (and the full brother, Lippitt Ethan, who had been gelded) was lost. Also lost was the young stallion, Lippitt Pegasus. He died during an operation for a scrotal hernia, thus that line was lost. Lippitt Pegasus was sired by Lippitt Sam out of Lippitt Dusky Kate. Such is the fate of animal breeding. Doing research we find so many times that so many lines hang by a slender thread, especially with strains that have been taken over for outcrossing, leaving – if we are lucky – one or two individual that have been left pure.”
Excerpted from “Lippitt Lore,” by Mrs. Winifred Horton, p. 41.
Food for thought, eh?
