HomeMy WebLinkAboutSaluting Huron County's Agricultural Industry, 1987-03-25, Page 19THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1987. PAGE A19.
Aubrey Toll has exported more Clydesdales into the world-Jamons
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Bly th. The Budweiser beer teams are a top-drawing card in major parades and
exhibitions all across America, one oj the Jew places the splendid eight-horse
hitches can still be seen. In 1162. Mr. Toll imported Jrom Scotland one oj the
greatest mares in the world. Warrix Rosalind, showing her to seven grand
championships across Canada before she. too. was sold to the Annheuser-Busch
farm at St. Louis. Missouri.
Fred Toll brought Clydesdales to E. Wawanosh
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grown, with the help of his
Clydesdales.”
Clydesdale horses were first
brought to East Wawanosh Town
ship at the turn of the century by
Fred Toll, Aubrey’s grandfather,
although the family first settled on
some of the land they still own in
1880, when Frederick and Chris
tina Toll moved there from near
Bluevale, after emigrating from
Germany in 1850.
In 1928, two of Fred and
Christina’s grandsons, Fred Jr.
(Aubrey’s father) and his brother,
Roy, purchased the breeding stock
of Clydesdales from Riverdale
Farms of Paris, Ontario, and
brought them to the home farm,
close where Aubrey and Marie Toll
now live.
From one of these foundation
mares, Belle of Riverdale, Fred
and Roy began a modest operation
of showing and selling purebred
Clyde stallions, mares and geld
ings, taking great care in the
selection of their breeding stock,
and establishing the reputation as
horsemen the family has today.
*‘We were always honest in
presenting our stock,” Aubrey
says. “If we said an animal was
bredinsuchandsuchamanner,
and was sound, buyers have
always been able to depend on the
fact that we were telling the truth. ’ ’
Soon after establishing their
studfarm, Fred and Roy took a pair
of young mares to Teviotdale, to
breed them to the best Clyde
stallion in Western Ontario,
“Coming Craze”, owned by
George Thompson and Sons of
Grand Valley. The result of one of
these matings was a filly which won
over 27 others in the draft foal class
at the 1930 Tees water Fair, and
later won the open mare class, as a
six-year-old, at the Richmond Hill
Spring Fair.
By then a Toll-bred mare had
been sold to John Kellam of Nash
ville, Ontario who later purchased
a second ‘‘Coming Craze” mare,
showing the team of half-sisters to
16 first place wins at Ontario shows
that season, before taking the
grand championship with them in
the Light Draft Class at the Royal
Ontario Winter Fair in 1937.
From the time of those first,
heady-show-ring successes, Toll
horses and horseman have never
looked back. When he was only
‘"... a horse is a thing of such
beauty... none will tire of
looking at him as long as he
displays himselj in his splen
dour." Xenophon
seven years old, Aubrey himself
showed his first Clyde foal at the
Blyth Fall Fair in 1927; showed a
two-year-old gelding at the Guelph
Winter Fair when he was 12; and
sold a two-year-old filly to the Right
Honourable Mitchell Hepburn,
premier of Ontario, when he was
only 14 years old.
In 1961, for the first time in
History, an Eastern Canadian
Clydesdale breeder invaded the
west, when Aubrey and Marie Toll
took their four children, two hired
men, two vans, a car and 14 horses
to the Manitoba Provincial Exhibi
tion in Brandon, Manitoba, cover
ing the whole 1,700 miles in 48
hours.
Exhausted as the whole caravan
was, they went on to win nearly
every class they entered at the
show; a performance they repeat
ed over and over as they went on to
the other four major horse shows in
the western summer circuit: Re-
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