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COUNTRY LIFE DIARY
Three Years in the Life of a Horse Farm
by Josh Pons
This diary originally appeared in The Blood-Horse magazine from 1989 through 1991, and was published in book form in 1992, with illustrations by Ellen Pons. The diary was awarded the 1992 Eclipse Award for journalism.
"Animals are the first inhabitants of the mind's eye. I thought about the animals in my young son's life, the mares he stares at, silouetted at sunset... The boy keeps looking out the window, watching the mares graze. He is transfixed. There is more here than meets the eye. "
Today is Tuesday, September 7, 2010
But, on this date in the Country Life Diary:|
Thursday, September 7: At the 6 P.M. starting time for the mixed sale, I did not see fifteen
people in the pavilion. By the end of the evening, forty-three of the eighty-three horses sold brought
seven hundred dollars or less. As Ross Peddicord wrote in the Evening Sun series, a lot
of these horses are taking their last ride.
I left the sale and went to a crab feast at Pimlico, where Mary Thomas received the Humphrey S. Finney Award. It is a curious thing that just when this horse business has me totally frustrated, I am able to draw strength from the good people in it. I sat at the same table with Mary, and it felt great to crack crabs and listen as she humbly accepted congratulations from the breeders for whom she served so tirelessly. From Country Life Diary, Year One (1989) |
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