Description: Josh Pons, a third-generation horseman and owner of Country Life Farm, depicts a century of life inside the horse business, written from inside the fences of Maryland’s oldest Thoroughbred farm.In 2016, in the basement of his farmhouse, Josh Pons discovered thousands of letters from his grandfather’s life in the Thoroughbred horse business. The son of a French cook who came to New York City in 1894, Adolphe Pons got his start working in the Fifth Avenue mansion of Gilded Age banker August Belmont II. Adolphe became his personal secretary, and later played a major role in Belmont’s breeding and sale of the most famous horse in history: Man o’ War. During the Great Depression, Adolphe left New York and bought a hundred-acre horse farm in Maryland, naming it Country Life after the station stop on the Long Island Railroad nearest his Garden City home.
Price: 10 USD
Location: Stephens City, Virginia
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Book Title: Country Life Diary
Publisher: Blood-Horse, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Item Length: 9 in
Edition: 2
Publication Year: 1999
Format: Perfect
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Item Height: 1.1 in
Author: Josh Pons
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Topic: Agriculture / Animal Husbandry, General, Sociology / Rural
Item Weight: 23.7 Oz
Item Width: 6.2 in
Number of Pages: 398 Pages
