Letters from Country Life: Adolphe Pons, Man O' War, and the Founding of Maryland's Oldest Thoroughbred Farm

by Josh Pons

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149308139X
• ISBN13: 9781493081394
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Eclipse Press
• Length: 240 Pages