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Fred Herrick was born in the 1930’s in Southern New Hampshire. He likes telling the story of how his father gave his mother a Morgan mare when they married; Linda (Mountain Monarch x Miss Lillie), and that this mare was such a hot ticket that his mother was the only one that would drive her. Listen to Fred tell the story of Linda and his mother here dial up or high speed Fred’s father was one of the original members of the Morgan Horse Association – Louis D. Herrick, so it’s fair to say that the love for Morgan horses was something Fred was born to. When Fred came along however, there were no longer any family horses. Fred enjoys telling the story of how he’d always been crazy for horses and that “if a farmer came by with a horse drawn wagon, that I’d be hanging out over the road to look at them.” Through a connection with a friend who had a farm with horses, Fred got to ride, and started showing horses for fun. In those early days he was riding western, and during his teens he showed the New England Champion Working Stock horse. He was invited to the Boston Garden Rodeo to participate in the rodeo parade through the streets of Boston and then as a highlight they had a class for the most appropriately dressed horse and rider. And so it was that on a palomino quarter horse and with a borrowed saddle with lots of silver, Fred won the Parade Trophy. At that same event, judged by some of the officials from the Gene Autry Rodeo, Fred performed the traditional Rodeo maneuvers, scattering the judges with a perfectly placed sliding stop directly in front of the group. Fred knew what he was doing, but the Judges didn't know that.
Later in his teens, Fred’s first
“horse job” was working at an adult vacation camp/lodge in Vermont where he
was taking care of horses and giving riding lessons. |
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