The Butler Family
Last Modified 4/19/2007

Michelle, Bud and Michael Butler
at the Feb 2007 American Saddlebred Museum Opening.
Photo by Bob Judson

Tom Butler Biography


Lilly Vangard with Tom Butler up, circa 1970.


Tom driving "Smokey," Morgan horse


Tom riding Dividend Allen in the 1940s
Hymel Fishkin (left),
Johnny McIntyre (right) of the famed "Hy-Tyre Farm" in Gibsonia, PA

Head detail: Tom, Hymel Fishkin, Johnny McIntyre

December 1965


Tom Butler driving Stonewall Supreme's Rita, circa 1954


Tom Butler receiving an award at the "old" Berea Horse Show.
Date and award unknown.


Black River Circe - Tom Butler, whip


Tom Butler 1989


Michelle and Bud Butler, Skip Barham, Pam and Larry Warford in 1986

This photo and the two below thanks to Skip Barham.

Michelle and Bud Butler, Pam Warford, Skip Barham
again 1986

Charles Wilson, Pam Warford, Larry Warford, Michelle
Butler, Skip Barham, Mike Van Dyke, Margo Geyer, Bud Butler

Our Wild Thing & Our Wild Memory
Larry Warford, mare handler
Bud Butler, foal handler

Broodmare & Foal Champion
1994 Ohio State Fair

Mother and Daughter both Two Year Old winners at same show!


Our Wild Thing - Bud Butler, handler
1991 Lawrence Co. Charity Horse Show - New Castle, PA
Two Year Old Champion


Wild April - Bud Butler, handler
1999 Horses for Hospice Charity Horse Show - New Castle, PA
Two Year Old Champion


Supreme's Shadow, Bud Butler leading, circa 1969


Supreme's Shadow - Bud Butler, whip
1971 Beaver Falls, PA

Shadow's Shady Lady - Bud Butler, up
Lawrence Co. Charity Horse Show (mid 1970's)
3 Year Old Three Gaited Champion
This filly was later named Anastasia, and became a RWC 3 gaited Jr. Horse the following year


Reatas Virginia Woolfe

Americana's Dark Dream - Bud Butler, whip
2000 Pennsylvania National Horse Show


Americana's Dream Song
1997 Greene Co. Charity Horse Show - Waynesburg, PA


Symbols Wild Honey and Bud Butler


Marigold's Adam Too - Bud Butler, up
Penn Ohio Morgan Horse Show - Meadville, PA
Winner of the 1992 Penn Ohio Morgan Breeders Sweepstakes
Park Horse Champion


Michelle, Tom and Bud Butler


Michael Butler at Waynesburg Horse Show riding Johnny McCole,
early 1990s


Michael Butler, up - Bud Butler, leader
Leadline Champion
1993 Lawrence County Charity Horse Show - New Castle, PA


Wild Chance and Michael Butler, son of Bud and Michelle Butler


Hansford Butler
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