Archive for September, 2009

It doesn’t make sense, but (horse) Show Jumping is one of the world’s youngest professional sports. Organized jumping is barely 100 years old. It was not known that horses could jump large fences until the 18th Century, when fox hunting was threatened by the Enclosure Laws that fenced previously open land.
A century ago we seemed [...]

I haven’t yet linked to this review in The US Review of Books, basically because my blog is an affront to the good work of bloggers everywhere.

Emily Hinton for the US Review of Books
Eclipsed by Shadow, the first installment of Royce’s Legend of the Great Horse trilogy transforms a majestic beast into a thrilling [...]