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Former Clovelly Farms manager la Cour dies
Posted: Monday, June 28, 2010 12:08 PM
Lars la Cour, the former longtime manager of Robin Scully’s Clovelly Farms in Lexington, died on June 24, his 85th birthday, in East Berne, New York.
La Cour was the Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers’ Club’s farm manager of the year in 1982. He was a mentor to Dan Rosenberg, who had a long stint as president of Three Chimneys Farm, and to Marvin Little Jr., the breeder of champion Hansel and longtime manager of Newstead Farm in Virginia. Rosenberg and Little both worked under la Cour at Clovelly.
“I learned myriad lessons from Lars,” Rosenberg wrote in a 2008 Farm Management News series in Thoroughbred Times, referring to la Cour as a master horseman.
Little said la Cour taught him horsemanship.
“I still raise horses the way he taught me to raise horses,” Little said in 2005.
La Cour, a native of Denmark, is survived by his wife of 60 years, Gunvor.
A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday at 5 p.m. EDT at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Berne, New York. Friends may call from 3 to 5 p.m. at the church, prior to the service. Another memorial service will be held in Lexington at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society, 5 Computer Drive, West Albany, New York, 12205.
