HomeMy WebLinkAboutSaluting Huron County's Agricultural Industry, 1987-03-25, Page 20PAGE A20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1987.
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Toll horses took
H undreds oj thousands of people saw the Toll Clydesdales during the six years they took part in
the ' Day in Old Milwaukee parades, one of the largest annual parades in the USA. Above,
Aubrey and Vaughn Toll drive a six-horse hitch through the city, hauling a six-ton circus wagon
containing a live lion.
west by storm
Continued from page A19
gina, Saskatoon, Calgary and
Edmonton. A clipping from the
Blyth Standard in 1963 said: ‘‘Toll
horses are taking the West by
storm,” while a clipping from The
Western Produceratthesametime
said: “Toll horses have swept the
honours at each of the major
‘ His neigh is like the bidding of
a monarch, and his counten
ance enforces homage. He is
indeed a horse... "
William Shakespeare
western exhibitions.”
Throughout the 1960’s and the
ear’y 70’s, Toll horses were shown
aga n and again throughout the
west, as well as taking in up to 50
shows a year across Ontario,
Quebec, the Maritimes and the
mid-western U.S.A. As champion
ship after championship fell to the
Blyth family, Aubrey began impor
ting top breeding stock from
Scotland, the proud ancestral
home of .he mighty breed of
horses, and from the U.S.A., as
well as exporting high-class ani
mals back to nearly every state in
America, and to nearly every
province in Canada.
A 1962 “Clydesdale News
letter, ’ ’ the breed’s major bulletin,
says: ‘‘Aubrey Toll was the largest
importer of Clydesdales to North
America this year. In May, he
brought out Warrix Rosalind, one
of the greatest Clyde mares ever
seen in any country.” Only a few
days off the ship in Montreal, this
fabulous mare won her first
Canadian Grand Championship, a
feat she repeated seven times over
the season, before she was sold to
the Annheuser-Busch stud farm at
St. Louis, Missouri, one of the
foremost Clydesdale breeders in
North America, known to the
public as the home of the famous
Budweiser Beer eight-horse hitch
es, a top drawing card at parades
and exhibitions all across America.
Nowadays, Aubrey and his son
Vaughn, who lives with his wife
Marlene and three young sons, all
budding horsemen, just up the
road, specialize in breeding and
selling top show stock, a business
in which both men have built up a
formidable reputation. Between
them, they now have twoof the best
proven Clydesdale sires in the
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