Elizabeth Whitcomb Brown Lampton, owner of the famed Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., died after a carriage accident March 22. She was 74.

Mrs. Lampton was born in Vermont and graduated from the University of Vermont. She later was crowned Miss Vermont and competed for the Miss Universe title.

A successful businesswoman, Mrs. Lampton made a career as a real-estate agent for luxury apartments in New York, N.Y., and was president of the Condominium Association at The Dorchester. She was the first woman to sell a Mercedes-Benz automobile while working for a dealership on Park Avenue in New York City and was voted top salesperson in the country several times.

Mrs. Lampton’s love of horses came from her father, who was a lifelong Standardbred horseman. While driving her horse, Saint, at Saratoga (N.Y.), Mrs. Lampton met her future husband, Dinwiddie Lampton Jr.

After the Lamptons purchased Elmendorf Farm, on Paris Pike, in 1997, the couple enjoyed competing together at competitions such as the Junior League Horse Show (Ky.), the Shelbyville and Harrodsburg Fairs (Ky.) and the Kentucky State Fair. At the age of 72, she won the ladies’ phaeton class at the Indiana State Fair with a pair of Hackneys she trained herself.

Mrs. Lampton was a director of the American Hackney Horse Society and a trustee of the Carriage Museum of America in Lexington. At the time of her death she was also in the process of restoring Whipton Place Farm in Lexington.

Survivors include her husband and brother, Robert Whitcomb of Essex Junction, Vt.

Memorial donations may be made to the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation for the Carriage Museum, 4089 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington KY 40511.