Meet Bill and Carol Wright

That love of horses began early in life; (here's Bill with his favorite pony)and blossomed into a life long goal of working with, producing, raising and training homozygous black Morgan horses integrated with a love for carriages, coaching, coach horns and carriage driving.    

The tradition of coaching includes the English Post Horn and the Coach Horn (or Yard of Tin).  These instruments were used to sound calls on passenger coaches and carriages between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries.  As better roads made traveling greater distances possible, traffic from farmers and merchants transporting goods to market created highway congestion. Metal horns were used to sound blasts to clear the road as they were loud and could be heard over great distances. Standard calls were adopted to communicate with driver, traffic and station operators. Soon, Guards sounding popular themes and songs became immensely entertaining to passengers.

Carol Wright's love of horses encompasses all aspects of breeding, raising and training carriage horses as well as judging carriage driving.  Carol is an American Driving Society recorded pleasure driving judge.

With two years of fun, work and  help from our wonderful grooms we are all enjoying our four in hand to a newly restored French and Comany roof seat break.  See you on the trail!

MORGAN HORSES IN THE NEWS

Morgans at The National Sporting Library

50th Anniversary Coaching Event

Bill and Carol Wright were pleased to present Bobby and Susie Cook's coach, "The Wild Boar", a one hundred and fifteen year old Park Drag, October 23, 2004 at the National Sporting Library 50th Anniversary Coaching Event in Upperville, Virginia.  The National Sporting Library, located in Middleburg, Virginia, is a research center for horse and field sports and houses an incomparable collection of over 13,000 books, periodicals, photographs, films, and manuscripts.

The occasion presented a rare opportunity to see one of the largest U.S. exhibitions of these stately, antique coaches ever assembled. The Upperville Colt & Horse Show Grounds hosted 31 coaches from as far away as Florida and Colorado, complete with whips (drivers), groomsmen, ladies and gentlemen dressed to the nines including gloves and top hats, and, of course, the magnificent teams of horses that pull these historic vehicles.

Horses pictured are: Near Lead, Glick's June Twilight (Ice Storm x LOM Sally), age 16; Off Lead, Glick's Georgia (Scandias Bjorn x Pandora Carter) (a half sister to Ice Storm), age 24;  Near Wheel, TGF Blackjack Megan, age 21, dam of Off Wheel Horse, Glick's Night Wind, age 16, (Ice Storm x TGF Blackjack Megan).  

Ice Storm (Scandias Bjorn x Foxcroft Tamara), now owned by Wanda Jacques-Gill, Durham, CT is foundation stallion for the Wrights.

People pictured are:  (left to right) Carol Wright, whip; Bill Wright, Alan Sader, Ann Chenoweth, Julie Sader, passengers; Elizabeth Healey and Betty Newland, grooms.

Carol declared, "The horses were wonderful.  They were the only Morgan team at the event which featured ONLY coaches and four in hands.  The team did a beautiful job of horsing the coach which weighs in excess of 2,200 pounds."  The coach was built by Scott and Company, Philadelphia, PA around 1885 and exhibited at The Chicago World's Fair.

Bill and Carol breed rare Homozygous Black Morgan Horses at Newstead Farm, Cartersville, Virginia. The Wrights have been breeding, raising and training Glick's Morgan Horses since 1979.

HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU!