FOXHUNTER AND OTHERS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 14

FOXHUNTER AND OTHERS

FOXHUNTER IN PICTURES, chosen and introduced by H. M. Llewellyn; Hodder and Stoughton. English price, 8/6. FIANDER’S HORSES, by Violet M. Heathcote, iliustrated by Jenefer Peter; Oxford University Press. English price, 10/6. LL of us, horsemen and horsewomen in New Zealand, have been waiting for a life story of the pride of our horse world, Colonel H. M. Llewellyn’s Foxhunter. The book has been promised and is now perhaps nearly ready; but in the meantime we have been given the life of the horse in pictures from the time he made his first trip to a jumping contest abroad in 1947 to the time of his homecoming after his great victory at the Olympic Games, 1952. Colonel Liewellyn must have spent some happy hours sorting the photographs and choosing the ones to use here, and readers will spend many happy evenings examining them and discussing the principles so clearly illustrated. without comment. There are about 130 photographs; and as most of them will repay close and repeated study, the book is one for all jumping enthusiasts to buy and not to borrow. | Fiander, in the second book, is a girl ‘who has left school with a great wish to earn enough money to buy her own horse, She goes to work, first in kennels, ‘next in a private hunting stable, next Ne ne

in a racing stable, and last in a livery stable, partly to earn the money and partly to learn in two years everything she can about keeping and caring for a horse in all circumstances and seasons. The book is written in the first person as a continuous story of the two very interesting years, and through conversations and recorded observations the minutest details of horse management are included. This book is full of firstrate horse sense and I recommend it.

J.