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FREE & Newsworthy HHoorrssee RReevviieeww VOL. 30 • NO. 1 The Mid-South Equine Newsmagazine Since 1992 SEPTEMBER 2019 2. September, 2019 • ©Mid-South Horse Review • www.midsouthhorsereview.com o N THE C ovER : sseepp tteemm bbeerr 22001199 america’s boyd martin riding tsetserleg, Horse Review eventing individual and team gold medalist CoNTENTS • v oL . 30 • N o. 1 at the Pan american Games, lima, Peru. Equus Charta, LLC (photo by Shannon Brinkman ) Copyright 2019 6220 Greenlee #4 P.o. box 594 arlington, tn 38002-0594 901-867-1755 PUBLISHER & E DIToR : Tom & Dr. Nancy Brannon STAFF : Andrea Gilbert WEBSITE : www.midsouthhorsereview.com E- MAILS : midsouthhorsereview@ yahoo.com [email protected] P. 22 photo by Nancy Brannon P. 20 photo by Kate Bushman P. 15 A competitor at the Lucky Dog Bar - Driving coach Jason Stronks with USEF Pony Finals were held August rel Race waits for her turn to run. 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September, 2019 • ©Mid-South Horse Review • www.midsouthhorsereview. com book & film nook plains. there are a host of complex characters in the book, beginning with billy, who first comes to strike believing that he has witnessed the murder and burial of a child. appearing mentally ill, he continuously gesticulates a semblance of the Catholic sign of the cross. strike doesn’t believe he is totally “off,” and in the course of his other investigations, makes billy a prom - ise that he will find out the truth of the matter. The Uffington White Horse, which as we learn later in the novel, a huge dates to the late Bronze Age. white horse carved in a hill is significant in finding the answer to billy’s question. it is Country Music it isn’t long into the book before the black - a reference to the Uffington White Horse, renowned documentary film maker mail investigation turns into a murder in - formed from deep trenches filled with ken burns explores the history of this vestigation when Chiswell is brutally white chalk, located on the upper slopes of american art form: country music. From murdered. White Horse Hill in the english parish of its deep roots in ballads, blues, hymns, and Horses play an ancillary role in this Uffington. this figure plays prominently “old time” music performed in small set - novel. Chiswell’s second wife, much in the blackmail scheme, too, as the figure tings, to its worldwide popularity, the film younger than he and rather unstable, is en - is carved on the items for which Chiswell documents how country music has Lethal White amored with her stable of horses. Her fa - was being blackmailed. evolved over the course of the 20th cen - vorite painting hangs over the mantle of the novel is nearly 650 pages, but it Review by Nancy Brannon tury, as it became america’s music. their home, a painting of a mare standing doesn’t seem too long and is a riveting Country music features unique film While my 9-year-old grandson is an over her totally white foal called “mare read, keeping the reader engaged with the footage and photographs, plus interviews avid reader of the Harry Potter books, i ea - mourning.” Close examination of the twists and turns of the various sub-plots, with more than 80 country music artists. gerly devour every novel by robert Gal - painting reveals that the foal is dead, likely as bit by bit of the mystery is revealed. the the eight-part 16-hour series is directed braith that i can. Galbraith is the pen name from lethal white syndrome. late in the vivid, detailed descriptions of people and and produced by ken burns; written and for J.k. rowling, author of the Harry Pot - book we find that the painting may be by places make it easy to see them in the produced by Dayton Duncan; and pro - ter series. the fourth novel in the Cor - the famous artist George stubbs, known mind’s eye. duced by Julie Dunfey. moran strike detective series, Lethal for his paintings of horses and other ani - at the end, after a surprising turn of Country music explores questions White , is now out in paperback. mals. events putting robin in danger, all the about the nature and origins of country this novel takes the reader into the in - there is even a section in which strike strands are carefully woven together to re - music, while focusing on the biographies timate – and messy – lives of some of the and his partner robin go to a horse race, veal the whole picture. the title is worked of the fascinating musicians who created upper class members of the british Parlia - and strike, who normally eschews betting, into the plot with discussion of the mare and shaped it: the Carter Family, Jimmie ment, as strike’s newest job is to investi - places a small bet on a horse who comes in mourning painting, but it turns out to have rodgers, bob Wills, Hank Williams, Patsy gate why the minister of Culture, Jasper second. a multiple meanings in the clues to the Cline, Johnny Cash, merle Haggard, Chiswell (Chizzle, as it’s pronounced) is throughout the book whenever the mystery: e.g., Blanc de blanc , the white loretta lynn, Charley Pride, Willie nel - being blackmailed. Chiswell believes topic of horses comes up, strike is puzzled horse on the hill. every chapter begins son, Dolly Parton, emmylou Harris, Garth Geraint Winn, husband of the blind, fe - about the correct names for the colors of with a quote from Henrik ibsen’s Rosmer - brooks and more. much like the music it - male minister of sports Della Winn, is in - horses. Why is an obviously brown horse sholm . the central image of ibsen’s play self, the film tells unforgettable stories of volved. all the while the background plot is called a bay? because of the black is the White Horse of rosmersholm, or the hardships and joys shared by everyday involves protests about the olympics, the points, mane and tail, robin explains to “family ghost.” this is definitely a book people. characters involved in the protest groups, him. and why is a white horse called you won’t want to put down! and Della Winn’s role in the Paralympics. grey? because it has black skin, robin ex - the show airs on most Pbs stations on september 15, 2019 at 7 pm central time. http://www.fergusthehorse.com/#shop www.midsouthhorsereview.com • ©Mid-South Horse Review • September, 2019 5. assembled a production – again to the detriment of work - Koch Brothers’ Influence mini-empire of ers. and koch maintains one of the largest ranches, facto - corporate lobbying operations in the U.s. – By Nancy Brannon limited amounts ries and oil “a corporate influence machine that’s unri - of money on fa - With the death of David koch (79) in late pipelines, and valed by any others in corporate america,” vored candidates, then Charles and writes leonard. august, the time seemed ripe to talk about and with virtually two books about the koch brothers and their David “super - leonard said that koch controls the many no disclosure of sized” this for - of the products that people use on a daily business, koch industries. the books de - its source. they scribe how these two brothers have shaped tune.