Happy Friday! Here is your Friday Flashback, from 1985:
“Rohan Ashlyn – A Profile”
by Clara Hendin of Rohan Morgans.
Lynnie (to her many friends and admirers) is one of four black full sisters by Royalton Ashline out of Moro Hills Emelyn. (Her sisters are Rohan Arwen Evenstar, owned by Lee and Kaylee Logan of Beaver Falls, PA; Rohan Camellia, owned by Gillian Eyre of Kidderminster, England; and Rohan Galadriel, owned by Rohan.) Lynnie is 14.3, black and beautiful.
Lynnie is one of my very favorite horses. I love her intelligence, sweetness and naughtiness. Like her sire, she has the conformation and disposition to accomplish almost anything; her one fault is impatience. She hates to stand still and doesn’t care much for walking either.
Lynnie started her brief show career by winning the Lippitt Weanlings class at the 1979 Lippitt Country Show. At that time, fillies and colts were shown together. Lynnie went as a two year old to Harold Childs, who taught her to ride and drive. She then went on hold for a couple of years, until I decided, at the last moment, to enter her in the 1983 LCS, and sent her to Windrush Stable for a quick re-education course (10 days).
Due to a sound system problem at Rutland, Lynnie missed her in-hand class, but she placed second in the large Junior Pleasure Saddle class. She placed second in a number of other classes at other shows in 1983, including in-hand and road hack classes.
Barbara Ackley of Windrush Stable finished Lynnie’s training in the fall of 1983, and introduced her to pair driving with her sire, Royalton Ashline. Pair driving was not entirely a new experience for Lynnie. In the excitement of preparing for the Cavalcade Americana Class at the ’83 LCS, Dana Kelly had mistaken Lynnie for one of his pair of mares, and hitched her with the other mare to his buggy (not without some excitement). After a rocky start, the pair was driven for about 40 minutes, and performed creditably in the ring!
Lynnie and Roy love to drive together, and have appeared at the Vermont Sleighing Day at the Shelbourne Museum, at the Brownsville Carriage Parade, where their driver, Rick Howe, was awarded Best Gentleman Driver Award. Last July, the pair conveyed then-AMHA President Dr. Al Lucine from the Burlington Airport to the downtown Radisson Hotel through the noon-time traffic! They also won the Cavalcade Americana class at the 1984 LCS, and had the pleasure of escorting Marilyn Childs around the ring as a birthday tribute.
We plan to use Lynnie for competitive trail riding this summer – after a lot of conditioning! She has been bred to champion Royalton Corydon for what we fully expect will be a black foal in 1986. Lynnie is for sale – but not cheap!
(From LCN Vol XII, No 3, p.1; May/June 1985 – Mare Issue.)
