HomeMy WebLinkAboutSaluting Huron County's Agricultural Industry, 1987-03-25, Page 18PAGE A18. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1987.
At the peak of their showingcareer, the Toll family took in over 50 horse shows a season, taking
ribbons in all of them and grand championships in many. Above. Aubrey Toll shows the great
mare Muirton s Avon Marie, named for his wife and daughter, at the 1978 Royal Winter Fair in
Toronto. During the show, this mare was sold to an American buyer, and went on to win six
All-American Mare titles, competing with mares of all other heavy breeds to be named best
mare in the U.S.A.
Noble legacy
Four generations of Tolls
have bred top horses
Look back on our struggle for
freedom;
Trace our present day strength to
its source,
Andyou’ll find thatman's pathway
to glory
Is strewn with the bones of a horse.
(Unknown)
Mankind’s love for horses goes
intohispsyche; noanimal through
out recorded history has ever
evoked such powerful passions or
such deep devotion in so many
people from all walks of life. And
certainly, civilization could not
have gained today’s level if it
weren’t for the horses that led the
way and broke the land for us to
build on, especially perhaps in
North America, where settlement
is so recent, distances so great, and
conditions often so rugged.
Certainly nobody knows this
better than Aubrey Toll of RR 3,
Blyth, as he surveys the rolling,
gentle hills surrounding the home
stead first settled by his great
grandfather in 1880. “Horses
broke this land,’’ he says. “We
owe those animals everything.”
In 1961, on the occasion of a
triumphant assault on the Class
“A” circuit of Western Canadian
horse shows, where Toll horses
won nearly every class in which
they were entered, as well as
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bringing home to Blyth several
grand championships, the Bran
don (Manitoba) Sun said: “Love of
horses runs thick in the Toll
bloodstream, back several genera
tions in rural Germany. Back in the
1880’s, Aubrey’s grandfather
shipped 54 carloads of work horses
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