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difficult so he trains riders to do that and he teaches them how to leap over jumps so they can jump over fences.
Doris Jones of Woodville is one of many people that Moody has taught to fox hunt. She bought two horses from Moody over the years and has kept horses at his stables. She too heard about Moody from a friend.
Moody started riding with the Rappahannock Hunt when he was still working for Jim Bill Fletcher. For about 15 years he has been riding with the Warrenton Hunt.
He transports horses to the hunt and takes people out and coaches them to be fox hunters. He even took his son, Pete, when he was six years old. He held onto Pete’s horse with a tether while Pete leaped over fences and galloped through the woods. Pete is now a professional trainer himself with a facility between Marshall and Warrenton.
Moody says it’s simple to learn to ride horses.
“You need to think it out and plan. Direct the horse. Learn to move with the horse and not just sit on it. That programs the horse to behave.”
When Moody bought a farm in Gid Brown Hollow he was always looking for extra ways to make money. So he worked as a farrier putting shoes on horses for people like Edward Hudson of nearby Washington who owned some racehorses.
Moody asked him if he would give. him the chance to train one of his Thoroughbreds to race. So in 1968 Moody took one of Ed Hudson’s horses to the racetrack at Charleston and in the third race, he won first place. Moody still works with racehorses but less than before.
Lots of people ask Moody to train their horses. They bring in problem horses with bad habits and Moody says
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