Happy Friday! Here is your Friday Flashback – (and this amazing story always gives me goosebumps with the “what ifs?”!!):
“One of the best customers for the Peters’ Morgans was A. Fullerton Phillips of Windsor, who purchased most of his breeding stock from Arthur Peters. It was Mr. Phillips who found Ethan’s son, Croydon Prince, sick and starving in a barn in New Hampshire when Croydon Prince was twenty-four years old. Mr. Phillips so valued the blood of Ethan Allen 2nd that he bought Croydon Prince and nursed him back to health. Croydon Prince lived to sire a number of foals, including Ashbrook, foundation sire of Robert L. Knight’s Lippitt strain.”
From LCN XXII, No. 3 Historical Issue, May/June 1995, p. 8 – excerpted from “Some Recollections of Ethan Allen 2nd 406” – by Barbara Cole, originally published in 1965.
(Note: Our cover photo is of an aged Croydon Prince and A. Fullerton Phillips.)
