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Many times I've been asked where my prefix came from.  Braelea:  Brae  = sloping hillside.  Lea = meadow, pasture Prefix borrowed from my brothers herd of Ayrshire cattle, thus the scottish slant.

My introduction to the Lippitt Morgan started in 1963 when my Dad and I visited Fran Bryants farm in South Woodstock, Vermont.  Neither of us knew what a Lippitt was and were there to see the stallions.  Last, but not least in our minds, out came Lippitt Ashmore.  Wow!!!  Even then, he was a beautiful horse and Dad and I both agreed he was the one we liked the best.  I went off to college in Lyndonville, VT. and saw an ad for Lippitt Bunyan so off I went to see another Lippitt horse.  I liked this stallion and his manners and quiet ways.  I began to connect the dots and when the Morgan Horse Magazine published an article, The Stable Visitor by Barbara Cole and it was about a farm in nearby Hartland, Vermont, well, off I went to visit the Horton's and see Lippitt Bruce, Lippitt Croydon Lady, Royalton Nekomia and Horton's Vt Standard.  It was on this day, the dots connected and a friendship between Lyle and Winifred (Matt) Horton was founded.  Any Sunday I could, I was sitting in their living room absorbing the passion and knowledge these two people had for the Lippitt strain of Morgan.

Lippitt Ashmore  "Tommy"

Lippitt Bunyan (Lippitt Sam Bun x Lippitt Ethan Ann)

I listened carefully to each and every word Lyle and Matt said, yes, they had some of their own strong beliefs but I have chosen to adopt their program for my own.  I use Royalton, mostly Royalton Ashbrook Darling and cross it with the Meredith line through Lippitt Moro Ashmore, a son of Lippitt Ashmore, my first contact with this bloodline.  My breeding program is strong in Lippitt Ethan Ash on all sides, just recently, I have had the oppourtunity to add some Lippitt Sallie blood in my herd with two half sisters out of Lippitt Sally Brook.

Lippitt Moro Ashmore  "Oscar"

I hew not only to the line which Robert Lippitt Knight adhered to but to the line followed by the Horton breeding program, which offered less choices in breeding and more challenges.

Some of my horses have had the opportunity to go on and compete at a national level, some have remained breeding stock with an occassional foray into the show ring.  Braelea horses can be found in New England as well as the mid-west.  The numbers are small due to the fact this is a one person operation most of the time and there is just so much I can do, time and space wise.

Lyle Horton & Horton's VT Standard

The story continues with Royalton Rachel

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