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The Davis family is perhaps best remembered as owners and proud caretakers of Upwey Ben Don. It was at his close friend Owen Moon’s Upwey farm that Ted Davis first saw Upwey Ben Don as a foal. Sired by Upwey King Benn and out of Quietude (by Troubador of Willowmoor) he was sold as a yearling to Harry and Tina Woods in Boukville, NY. Ted Davis never forgot the Morgan colt and in February of 1947 he set out, in what Patty remembers as a “wicked snow storm,” bound for New York State with daughters Helen and Patty to seek out the stallion. Listen to Patty tell this story...
Seeing Ben Don, Ted Davis remarked “If he can trot like that under these conditions, can you imagine what he’d be like in others?” Patty also remarked that her father “Always had an ideal of what a Morgan should be…and Ben Don was it.” Ted Davis’s plan, was to have a quality stud with which to form the backbone of the Wind-Crest program. They bought him from the Woods as a three year old. Patty remarked “We weren’t wealthy people, but we put everything into that horse and based our program on him.”
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