Iron Spring Farm’s Friesian stallion Heinse 354 colicked and died on May 20. He was 15.

Heinse had a long and impressive career in the United States and the Netherlands. A two-time winner of the Dutch National Driving Championships, he was also a three-time Dutch National Champion Friesian stallion.

Owner Mary Alice Malone imported him in 2004 to her Coatesville, Pa., farm. The pair earned numerous accolades in the dressage ring at fourth level and Prix St. Georges.

Howard Arthur “Hound Dog” Brown, an avid foxhunter and foxhound breeder, died on April 22 at Chestertown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Chestertown, Md. He was 96.

Mr. Brown was born in Baltimore and was raised in the Maryland towns of Reisterstown and Westminster. He attended Carroll County Public Schools until dropping out in the eighth grade. He began working with horses and wanted to be a veterinarian, but he didn’t have the money to go to school. However, he had a striking ability to diagnose what was wrong with a horse and became a farrier.

L. Clay Camp, a highly regarded Thoroughbred race horse breeder and horseman, died on May 4 at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 78.

Mr. Camp was a lifelong horseman who was born in Marion, S.C. He attended Woodberry Forest School (Va.), Hampden-Sydney College (Va.) and the University of Virginia.

Mr. Camp learned the trade like many now prominent Virginia-horsemen by working with draft horses and show hunters. He spent most of his life as a leading consigner of Thoroughbreds.

G. Leslie Grimes, huntsman for the Green Spring Valley Hounds, died on April 7 at his home in Butler, Md., following an extended illness. He was 89.

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.