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Museum of Hounds and Hunting in 1999.

About the author

For many years Peter Winants, a native of Maiyland, photographed horses for advertising purposes and took pictures of horse racing and other horse sports for several regional and national magazines. In 1972 he joined the staff of the “Chronicle of the Horse,” a national weekly magazine based in Middleburg, and in time became the editor, then publisher. After retiring from the Chronicle in 1991 at age 65, Winants became the director of the National Sporting Library, also in Middleburg, for nine years.

He is now director emeritus of the libraiy, which has one of the world’s largest collections of books on horses, horsemanship, and associated field sports.

Winants’ first book, published by Winants Brothers Inc. in 1966, concerned the American steeplechase horse Jay Trump, who won the 1965 English Grand National. In

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