In the 1990s, the Chronicle was there for the highlights, such as two Olympic Games and three World Equestrian Games, as well as the lows like the horse insurance killings involving Barney Ward, George Lindemann, Paul Valliere and several others.
For better or worse, during the 1980s, the culture of the horse world entered the modern world, becoming more specialized and more of a business, and less bound by tradition.
Plenty of major changes swept through the equestrian community during the 1970s. In international competition, the U.S. Equestrian Team was a major international force, with show jumping, dressage and eventing squads sweeping the 1975 Pan American Games (Mexico City) gold medals, and all three teams earning medals over the course of the Olympic Games in Munich (1972) and Montreal (1976).
The decade of the 1960s was a golden era for horse sports and for the Chronicle. The ‘60s saw glamorous hunter stars like Cold Climate, Cap And Gown, and Isgilde become famous. The U.S. Equestrian Team sent jumper stars like Frank Chapot, Bill Steinkraus, Kathy Kusner and Hugh Wiley overseas to compete, and they won on the biggest stages like Aachen.
Leica may just be Julie McKee’s horse of a lifetime, but she’s also the most exacerbating, frustrating horse she’s ever dealt with.
But McKee has persevered, and after 20 years together she and Leica have hunted with 19 different hunts, shown in the amateur-owner hunters and jumpers and evented to the preliminary level.
Chasing coyotes in the West means long runs, beautiful scenery and testing terrain.
With more than 1,000 linear miles and the Continental Divide separating the nine hunts in the Rocky Mountain region, you cannot make many generalizations about the region, hunting terrain, typical days or common challenges, as the area is so diverse.
Showing at hound shows is all about the quest for perfection, and for 27 years Huntsman Larry Pitts has been striving to create perfection in his pack of American hounds at Potomac Hunt (Md.).
And in Potomac Jefferson ’05, he’s quite close. Jefferson followed his Virginia Hound Show grand championship with the same title at the Bryn Mawr Hound Show, June 2 in Radnor, Pa.
The flawless and distinctive American foxhound Potomac Jefferson ’05 claimed the grand champion title at the end of a long, hot, humid day at the 60th annual Virginia Hound Show held at Morven Park, Leesburg, Va., on May 26.
The victory was especially sweet as it had eluded him last year, when he was named as reserve grand champion.