For four generations, the name Cash Lovell has been linked to horsemanship at the highest levels. Cash Lovell III, Cashlyn’s Daddy, shared his name and his passion for training horses with his father and grandfather.
Cash III grew up moving 18 times around the country as his father trained American Saddlebred show horses. The family settled in Winston- Salem, NC, and more than 40 years ago he took over Cash Lovell Stables from his father, who retired to start the Cash Lovell Bit Co. A master horseman who trained more than 40 World Champion American Saddlebreds, Cash III was known as a larger-than-life character who loved living life to its fullest.
He kept a pack of bubblegum in his pocket to give to children, and he loved playing Santa Claus every Christmas season. With wild abandon, he drove motorcyles, Sea-doos, jet boats, Corvettes, race cars and even his own airplane. When Parker Lovell met Cash and found out he owned and flew his own Cub airplane, she asked if he had a pilot’s license – which he did not.
He chortled, “Ain’t nobody up there ever stopped and asked me for one.”
On May 21, 2015, after a 10-year battle with Frontotemporal Dementia,
Cash died at his home in Winston-Salem, NC.