IN & AROUND HORSE COUNTRY • HOLIDAY 2014
Foxfield Fall Races The Barrack’s Filly and Mare Maiden Hurdle Bau Bai Gold (Ross Geraghty, up) – 1st. Catherine French photo
Foxfield Fall Races Chef’s Plate Training Flat Beamer (#4, Gerald Galligan, up) – 1st. Catherine French photo
JENNY’S PICKS Our booksignings are now in full swing; if you missed Felix Francis’s, we still have some signed copies of Dick Francis’s Damage available. We will also plan on having some signed copies by the other authors, and definitely Rita Mae Brown’s books.
Read-and-Play Sticker Books. These make a great birthday or Christmas gift, as well as being something to occupy youngsters on a long trip. All three sticker books have a middle section of stickers that can be reaffixed to scenes on the front and back inside fold-out covers for hours of play. If your child reads, there are a few explanatory pages of text as well as the stickers. Makes me want to be a child again! We have three versions in stock: The Horse Farm, The Horse Show, and the Barnyard. Each is $7.95. Abbott, Gareth; and Catherine Britton, eds. Hollywood Dogs. From the archives of the John Kobal Foundation comes this beautiful book of beautiful people—and dogs. Some dogs belong to the stars, others are their companions in films. There’s the original “Lassie” with a very young Elizabeth Taylor, and there’s Liz bathing her own cocker spaniel. Rock Hudson pairs with a Schnauzer, Charlie Chaplin with a stage Mutt, Buster Keaton with a Saint Bernard—just about everyone who was anyone in 20th century Hollywood. These are all high-quality publicity shots, not casual snaps, so each is clear and masterfully composed. Makes a great gift—but you’ll probably want one yourself if you’re a movie buff! Hardcover, 168pp. $45.00 Baxter, Nicola. My Book of Magical Pony Tales. Beautifully illustrated by Cathie Shuttleworth, this selection of 12
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Foxfield Fall Races Old Dominion Virginia Bred or Sired Training Flat Complete Dyno (#4, Willie McCarthy, up) – 1st. Catherine French photo
Foxfield Fall Races Blue Ridge Maiden Hurdle Marq Your Bible (Willie McCarthy, up) – 1st. Catherine French photo
to set forth the life of an ancestor who lived in the 19th century, a protégé of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Like so many Virginians, when the South seceded he followed his state, but that Specialists in New, Old & Rare Books on Horses, Foxhunting, service is not a primary focus of thisth book. Rather, it is the first part of the 19 Eventing, Polo, Racing, Steeplechasing & Sporting Art century when he was active in the Amer60 Alexandria Pike, Warrenton, VA 20186 • 800-882-HUNT • 540-347-3141 ican political scene that Barclay chooses to dwell upon. See a more complete reshort children’s stories is sure to delight this one written by a local author, and it view by our editor in the previous issue your youngest children, whether you is set in the Fauquier County locale. The of IAHC. Softcover, 373pp. $19.95 read the stories to them or they are able basic characters start out with the proto read themselves. Softcover, 80pp. tagonist, Jordan DuBois, a teacher who Thelwell, Norman. The Cat’s Pyjamas. $9.99 rents a house on an old plantation, and This is the only Thelwell I’ve been able to obtain recently. This one’s for cat Groux, Rosemary. Finding Secrets. The Santiago MacRae, the teenage heir to the lovers—a whole book of puns on cat estate. But other characters from the past second book in the Brenwyd Legacy trilphrases and words having “cat” or some ogy by teenage novelist Rosemary begin entwining themselves among the variation thereof—and a few that, I conGroux is now in print! The first book left pages; the novel shifts from first person fess, I don’t “get.” Maybe you have to be heroine Cassie Pennington and her to third and back again. This isn’t a novel English to understand those. But whatfriends having escaped from captivity by one can skim through easily to assess the ever the topic, Thelwell can wring humor the evil Brotherhood in England, but her plot; I haven’t had time to read it beyond out of it, and his kitties are as cute as his parents are still held captive. In this vol- snippets myself, so I can’t tell you a lot ponies. Paperback, 96pp. $12.95 ume the teenagers find themselves going about it other than it looks like a good Wilson, Alison. Drawing and Painting back in time to the Arthurian age to ful- read. Hardcover, 533pp. $29.95 fill a prophesy. But there is no end to the Rives, Barclay. See You at Second Horses. For the adult artist, this is possidanger: the Brotherhood was founded by Horses. Barclay Rives has written many bly the most informative book I have none other than Mordred! And he is out articles that have appeared in such mag- seen yet on equine art. First and most imto eliminate all Brenwyds. Join Cassie azines as In & Around Horse Country, portant to me, the author is an excellent and her friends at Camelot! Softcover, Virginia Sportsman, and Albemarle painter of horses. Second, she is aware 400pp. $14.99 Magazine as well as penning The 100 that not every aspiring equine artist is also an equestrian, so she gives plenty of Kellon, Dr. Eleanor. Dr. Kellon’s Guide Year History of the Keswick Hunt Club. cautionary advice about how to act and Here he delightfully recounts his advento First Aid for Horses. Now packaged position oneself when working from life with two DVDs as well as the 338-page tures hunting in England and Ireland, models, and what to expect in horse bebook. Dr. Kellon & Dr. Teresa Conway with a few photographs to illustrate the havior. The emphasis in the first half is show you how they diagnose and treat action. I thoroughly enjoyed the advance heavily on drawing, including materials, many common and uncommon equine copy, and I’m sure all you foxhunters out anatomy, and movement. The second ailments and demonstrate such proce- there will as well. Softcover, 198pp. part deals with painting theory, practidures as drug selections and dosages. $29.95 calities, composition, and development Great value for any horse owner at only Rives, Barclay. William Cabell Rives/A of a painting. Finally is a short chapter $69.95 for the package. Country to Serve. Barclay Rives is bet- on the professional side of art. Very King, Rosa DeBerry. House Key. An- ter known to foxhunters for his foxhunt- highly recommended! Softcover, 192pp. other tale with peripatetic time periods is ing writing, but here he takes up the pen $34.95
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