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FREE to good home HHoorrssee RReevviieeww VOL. 29 • NO. 1 The Mid-South Equine Newsmagazine Since 1992 SEPTEMBER 2018 2. September 2018 • ©Mid-South Horse review • www.midsouthhorsereview.com ON THE C OvEr : Jumping the roll top at the new Forest and hamp - Horse Review shire County show inter hunt relay, held annually in september 2018 the United kingdon. the three day agricultural show Equus Charta, LLC attracts around 95,000 visitors. ( photo by Cary Hart ) Copyright 2018 CONTENTS • v OL . 29 • N O. 1 see article p. 14 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] Uma O'Neill (USA) rides Clockwise of Greenhill Z in the FEI Jumping World Zach McCarver & Bingo traveled to ArTICLES & PHOTOS Cup™ at Langley, BC Canada. ( Photo FEI/Cara Grimshaw ) See article p. 5 the AQHYA World Championship. 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September, 2018 • ©Mid-South Horse review • www.midsouthhorsereview. com book & art nook cumulated a herd of cats at our farm, i lows a trail of clues to a construction site rita Mae brown’s style is to begin with have formed a strong bond with the male in richmond, where the discovery of mys - a description of each character in the book, “granddaddy” of several and can definitely terious remains has recently halted work. both human and animal, and in this case, identify with the feline set, although i have in a doppelganger universe, a parallel plot in both centuries. she also describes the not yet mastered the cat language. Despite set in 1787 in the same county in virginia locations – two different plantations plus all the different things they tell me, i still reveals plantation owner ewing garth and richmond – in each of the centuries. as only understand “meow,” or “mew” in the his family, managing a plantation, and there are so many characters in this book, case of the younger set. wondering what kind of government is this is a helpful reference. Mrs. Murphy in her 26th Mrs. Murphy mystery, being created at the Constitutional Con - and her friends all talk to each other, but brown and her feline co-author sneaky vention in Philadelphia. the book chapters the humans cannot understand them. the Pie brown return to albemarle County, switch back and forth between 1787 and animals all have distinctive personalities virginia, with a plot that converges paral - 2017. and phobias. lel mysteries from the past and the pres - aided by her loyal, opinionated com - the book combines intuitive and curi - ent. panions – the crime-solving cats Mrs. ous animals, a mystery to be solved, and a with the new year just around the cor - Murphy and Pewter, as well as tee tucker good dose of virginia history. (there’s ner, winter has transformed the cozy blue the Corgi – harry hunts for a link between nothing better than an ample dose of his - ridge Mountain community of Crozet, the decades-old dead, the recently vio - tory!) the 18th century thread woven into virginia into a living snow globe. it’s the lently murdered, and the ancient secrets the fabric of the story begins in one of the perfect setting for Mary Minor “harry” that underlie everything. the modern-day author’s previous books, A Hiss Before haristeen to build a new work shed de - mystery is connected to the 18th century Dying (© 2017) and, according to the her signed by her dear friend, local architect story by a bone. and while other deaths postscript, will continue in her next gary gardner. but the natural serenity is are narrowly averted in a flurry of fur, the sneaky Pie mystery. there is also a con - shattered when out of the blue, right in killer remains at large—ever more desper - trasting writing style between the chapters Probable front of harry and Deputy Cynthia ate and dangerous. the deep-rooted legacy set in the two different centuries. the 1787 Cooper, and in broad daylight, gary is of corruption that’s been exposed can chapters are written in the fluid prose and Claws , shot to death by a black-clad figure on a never be buried again. but if harry keeps vocabulary common to that time, and the speeding Ducati motorcycle. pursuing the terrible truth, she may be dig - modern writing is in the much faster pace outraged by the brazen murder, harry ging her own grave. of today’s speech. by Rita Mae begins to burrow into her friend’s past— and unearths a pattern of destructive greed reaching far back into virginia’s post-rev - Brown olutionary history (i love history!). an old By Tommy Brannon, MFH book of building codes disappears from gary’s office, so harry suspects that the ince meeting rita Mae brown in missing book may hold the key to his mur - person, more than once, and having s der. Just when harry finds incriminating had at-length conversations with her about evidence, the killer strikes again. gary’s foxhunting, i have become a fan of her friend lisa roundabush, the highly intel - books – usually the ones about foxhunt - ligent and competent head of the nature ing. i recently picked up her latest book at First environmental group, is poisoned. novel book store in Memphis, this one a the second murder seems unrelated to “Mrs. Murphy mystery,” co-authored by gary’s, except that both victims were in - the cat sneaky Pie brown, which is titled terested in dinosaurs. (pun intended, i’m sure) Probable Claws heedless of her own safety, harry fol - (© 2018). since we have inadvertently ac - Hey Y’all, Watch This! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=Lp2ocvr3mUo www.midsouthhorsereview.com • ©Mid-South Horse review • September, 2018 5. longreen Foxhounds will show how a Horses, pack of foxhounds are trained to follow a O’Neill Earns scent but never lose sight of the hunters. and the east tennessee vaulting club Music, and will astonish us all with their acrobatics on First Victory the backs of moving horses. Food Trucks the excitement of racking horses is a in Vancouver big part of the gChs, and some of our By Wanda Chancellor local best round out the evening with the By Catie Staszak n sept. 29, 2018 the germantown very fast paces of speed racking. rack on! t only took one round of jumping to oCharity horse show (gChs) con - Music is an integral part of the event idetermine the winner of the $145,000 tinues its 70th anniversary celebration with aD the DJ rocking it all night long! Csi4*-w longines Fei Jumping world with the second germantown horse Fair of course, while you are watching, you Cup™ vancouver (Can). Uma o’neill and Food truck Festival. in June, 2018 can be eating from some of the most pop - (Usa) jumped the only clear round germantown hosted one of the largest ular Food trucks in the Mid-south. la aboard Clockwise of greenhill Z to win guadalupaña and let’s be Frank are back Charity horse shows ever. the stalls were the class without a jump-off - and win her Uma O'Neill (USA) rides Clockwise full with competitors’ horses and the by popular demand. Fuel Café, voted best first world Cup qualifier.