It Started with a Trailer: The Story of Bert & Edna Lytle, continued...


Edna had a good eye for quality ponies and had been keeping an eye on the Fox Hollow Sing- ing Star ponies. In 1978, she earned the con- tract on these ponies and the Lytles were sent eight to 12 yearlings a year to break and train into show ponies. Te contract lasted several years, with the girls working with 60 or more ponies. Some Edna would sell, some would be leased and other times trades would come through the farm, with Edna always being sure the pairing of kid and pony was suitable.


Clydesdales and Arabians


Te number of top quality horses and po- nies to come through the Lytle’s farm over the years is too many to mention. Tere were the homebred hunters like Te Woodsman and Sportsman. Tere was Jingo, a horse with a troubled past that Bert bought while he was in the Marines, and then all the Fox Hollow Sing- ing Star ponies. But there were also the famed Budweiser Clydesdales and Arabian racehorses that spent some time with the Lytles. Bert met Anheuser Busch at Madison Square


Garden where Busch wanted to buy all the jumps they had at the Garden, plus some Bert and John had stashed away in reserve. After some back and forth haggling on pricing and delivery fees, something that Busch was not ac-


customed to doing, Bert loaded everything up and drove from New York City to the Busch farm in St. Louis.


He ended up having lunch with Busch, and


touring his safari park. Te two kept in touch over the years and at the 1975 WIHS, a young Cindy rode Jeffery, a Budweiser Clydesdale wheel horse in a pony class. Bert laughed remembering ponies run- ning in all directions to get away from the huge Clydesdale. Te Lytles have since hosted the famed Clydes- dales on more than one occasion while the horses were touring the area. Bert was even able to drive a team of four while they were at the Lytle’s farm. So where do Arabians


transport her horses. Bazy wanted to race her Arabians and sent them a few to condition and get ready for racing. Betty Webb was already riding the Toroughbred racehorses at the Ly- tle’s so she became jockey for these Arabians as well. Somehow, Bazy was able


to get an Arabian race schedule at Laurel Park and Bert arrived with a van full. He remembers most of the track officials turning their noses up at the Ara- bians but quickly changing their minds when they saw the wealthy owners flood- ing to the track to watch their horses run. It just goes to show you,


Edna and Bert at their daughter Cin- dy’s wedding in 2012.


fit into all of this? Te Arabians were an idea of Bazy Tankersley, who was the top Ara- bian breeder in the 1960s and had her main farm, Al-Marah Arabians, in Barnesville. Her daughter was riding with Edna, and Bert would


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