Peter Winants, a man who loved sport, sporting literature and art, died May 18, following a long illness. He was 82.

Mr. Winants, Rectortown, Va., was born in Baltimore, Md., July 21, 1926, son of Garet Winants and Frances Leigh Bonsal Winants. His father died when he was 5, and his mother later married renowned Maryland horseman S. Bryce Wing.

  Henry Tompkins “Duffy” Rathbun, a passionate Thoroughbred race horse breeder and owner, died on March 19 from complications following a heart attack. He was 87.

Mr. Rathbun was born in Elmira, N.Y., and graduated from Amherst College (Mass.) in 1944 before serving on a U.S. Navy destroyer escort in World War II. He then attended law school at the University of Virginia but skipped his last classes to go to the races in Charles Town, W.Va., on a blind date, where he met his future wife, Sheilah. He graduated in 1948.

Harry G. Huberth, a passionate foxhunter and U.S. Equestrian Federation R-rated judge, died on March 22, in Pinehurst, N.C., after a brief illness. He was 88.

Mr. Huberth enlisted in the Cavalry in Fort Riley, Kan., and later served as a captain in the infantry. He was a highly decorated World War II veteran, earning the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts and the Croix de Guerre as the commanding Officer of B Company 141st Infantry Regiment.

Sarah “Sally” Rodman Swift, the author and creator of Centered Riding, died on April 2. She was 95.

Ms. Swift was born on April 20, 1913, in Hingham, Mass. At the age of 7 she was diagnosed with scoliosis or lateral curvature of the spine. Her first physical therapist was Mabel Elsworth Todd, author of The Thinking Body, who helped her into her 20s. Todd encouraged Swift in her riding, which she’d started as a small child.

Loxus, a talented hunter, jumper and eventer who carried the Bearak family for many decades, died on Feb. 19. He was 30.

Loxus, an Oldenburg gelding, was well known in the show ring and competed at the Pennsylvania National and the Washington (D.C.) International Horse Shows and was the North Carolina Hunter Jumper Association children’s/adult jumper champion when he and his rider, Mark Bearak, were both 19.

A few years later, he was the North Carolina Dressage and Combined Training Association champion in novice eventing with Mark’s mother, Arleene.