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owned two riding horses when he first bought a cart from his farrier. “I loved it— and so did my wife,” he says. “I was driving one and then two horses. I got to know the great George Weymouth, known as Frolic.”
A noted conservationist who founded the parade at Winterthur, the late Frolic Weymouth frequently hosted other carriagers at Big Bend, his farm in Chadds Ford. He was also the co-founder of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. Along with the late Mrs. J. Maxwell
Hornsman Richard O’Donnell.
“Betty” Moran, he was the reason the Radnor Hunt Races became a fundraising event for the Brandywine Conservancy.
Frolic was a friend and mentor to Hunt as he learned to drive larger conveyances and more horses, continued on page 54
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