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By Betsy Burke Parker Special to the Rappahannock News
Virginia lost a giant of the horse industry May 18, with the death of Peter Winants of Rectortown following a long illness.
A native of Maryland, Winants, 82, was bom into the foxhunting-steeplechasing tradition: stepfather Bryce Wing was chairman of the Maryland Hunt Cup from 1938-’66.
Winants attended Princeton and served in the Army during World War II. He and brother Garrett ran a photography business in Baltimore.
In the beginning, photographing horses and equine sports was only a small part of their work, but soon Peter Winants added freelance jobs, including writing, fulfilling his passion for racing, especially steeplechasing.
After watching Tommy Smith and Jay Trump win the 1965 English Grand National, a book brewed in Winants’ head: “Jay Trump, A Steeplechasing Saga,” a perceptively written story accented by Winants' photographs of the event.
In 1972 Winants became writer, then editor, and later publisher, of the Chronicle of the Horse magazine in Middleburg, the heart of Virginia horse country.
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