Xeb. Co. agronomist trains world
By JOANNE SPAHR
LEBANON - Jim and Peg
Brown met over a horse
when they were 14 years old,
and today, after as many
years of marriage, their
lives are as closely entwined
around that equine animal
as they ever were.
Jim (James C.) is a
nationally renowned horse
judge who has ratings in
Arabians, Morgans, Sad*
dlebreds, and Tennessee
Walking horses for about 20
shows per year, traveling
from coast to coast doing so.
Peggy, on the other hand,
A horsMoylng family through and through, 12- the state 4-H Arabian Fillies and Colt class in
year-old Shelly Brown took first in the state 4-H 1977. she is at the halter of Camilla.
Arabian Broodmare Production class and first in
S.A. Imprint, a two-year-old registered Arabian honors for Jim Brown at Keystone International
stallion, took reserve champion two-year-old Livestock Exposition in November.
prefers to stay at home on
their seven acre tract of land
in Lebanon County where
she cares for young stock, 12
to 20 of which end up for
training and resale by
Browns’ Hoss-Pitality
Stables, located in
Linesville, Crawford County.
To keep the string of horse
tales going, the couple are
partners in that family
owned Crawford County
stable which is also well
known for the outstanding
number of national winners
they turn out each year.
Just last October at the
Grand National Morgan
Horse Show in Oklahoma
City, Hoss-Pitahty Stables
won five world cham
pionship titles at this “World
Series of Horesedom,” as it
has been termed. Then,
moving into the month of
November, the stable’s prize
Morgan stallion, “Dobson,”
won both the park saddle and
park harness championships
at the Kansas City Royal,
adding to a list of these
impressive titles that stems
back to 1974.
And, at Pennsylvania’s
own Keystone International
Livestock Exposition, the
Lebanon County couple
showed the reserve
champion two-year-old
Arabian stallion, S. A. Im
print, who was named the
high point junior stallion in
the Pennsylvania Arabian
Horse Association for 1978.
Remarkably, this listing is
only a scant representation
of the outstanding titles won
by this ' Arabian-and-
Morgan-centered horse
family.
What is it that makes the
name, “Brown,” almost a
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February il, 1978
champ Morgans
sure fire winner in Morgan
and Arabian horse circles?
Sitting in their com
fortable antique-and-horse
magazine-filled refurbished
home at 2055 Cornwall Road,
Lebanon, the Browns lent a
partial insight into that
answer when they explained
the philosophy of the family
stables.
“We don’t train any
animal here m Lebanon
County,” Brown explained,
“but at Linesville we look at
each animal as an athlete.
Our job is to perfect their
athletic skills.
And, just like humans,
horses have different
athletic abilities. Some of the
Morgans perform well in
harness, others under
saddle, and still others in
hand.
“We let the nature of the
horse decide what type of
showing he will do,” ex
plains Brown. Then the
animals are worked out
rigorously just as a football,
soccor, or baseball player
would be.
Of course, it takes top
quality stock to produce
national winners, and to
insure that they train this
I type of animal, Jim and his
' two brothers, Gene and Guy,
comb the country soliciting
conformationally sound,
potential winners from
Chicago eastward. Jim
handles the East from
Atlanta upward, and Guy
takes care of the mid-West,
Jim and Peggy Brown trim around the ears of
Vigilmore Cavelier, a registered Morgan horse
they are training on their Lebanon County farm.
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which leaves Gene to “pick
up the loose ends.”
The stable, which is
primarily a training
operation, also breeds 60 to
90 mares per year with 35 to
38 horses m training. Jim’s
father, Cecil, serves as
advisor to his three sons who
are all partners in the
business.
With the stable in the
northwestern region of
Pennsylvania, and the
James Brown family in
Lebanon, there are quite a
few miles which must be
logged in a year for them to
keep up with business. While
Jim’s brother Gene lives in
Linesville and manages the
stable, Jim and Peg com
mute regularly on weekends.
Taking a rough estimate,
Jim figures he logs about
164,000 miles per year in air
and land travel. That
estimate has added mto it
mileage for business, horse
showing, and judging pur
poses.
According to Brown, part
of the stable’s responsibility
with training a horse is to
show the animal, as well, if
the client requests it. Their
goal extends one step further
than this, however.
“Our ultimate goal is to
tram our horses so that our
customers can participate in
the shows,” explains Brown.
But, this definitely takes a
high level of training, and
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