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Country
Life Diary: Three Years in the Life of a Horse Farm
By Josh Pons
Illustrations by Ellen Blackwell Pons
This
intimate diary provides a rare opportunity to view a Thoroughbred
nursery through the eyes of a family as they strive to
breed, raise, and train winning racehorses. Eclipse Award-winning
author Josh Pons expresses the joys and cruelties of farm
living with clarity and literary skill. His daily diary
entries provide an understanding of the unique cadences
that characterize the lifecycle of the Thoroughbred.
Country
Life Diary was first published as a serial in The
Blood-Horse magazine, then as a book in 1992. This
revised edition includes an epilogue noting the farm's
involvement with one of horse racing's superstars, Cigar,
who was foaled and raised at Country Life Farm.
Read
excerpts
from Country Life Diary.
Praise
for Country Life Diary
"Reading Pons' day-by-day account of three years in
the life of his family's thoroughbred breeding farm in suburban
Maryland is very much like being there...Pons, a third-generation
breeder, shares the considerable joys and frequent disappointments
of breeding, foaling, raising, and selling magnificent horses."
--Booklist
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"Country Life Diary is delightful, informative,
amusing, touching, sensitive, perceptive."
--Joe Hirsch, Daily Racing Form
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Softcover
6" x 9"
398 pages
b/w illustrations throughout
Product #B11-1023
List Price: $15.95
ISBN 1-58150-019-X
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