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Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada

Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada

by Rita Mae Brown (Foreword), Richard R. Rust (Author)

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    Illustrated 2014

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Synopsis

Fitzrada was a stubborn and unpredictable army horse with a death sentence until Jane Pohl was able to sway her father into buying him. Soon, Jane and Fitz were taking the Virginia show-jumping circuit by storm at a time when women were not taken seriously by their male competitors. In 1946, Jane and Fitz found themselves at the Jumper Championship of America at the prestigious National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden-the highest jumping title in the world. The road there for horse and rider was a five-year test of faith, patience, and understanding friendship.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 328
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 16 Jul 2014
ISBN 10: 1589799585
ISBN 13: 9781589799585

Media Reviews
Those of us who come from older generations cannot but admire what the late Col. Richard Rust achieved in producing, as a true labor of love, such a touching tribute to his mother. [We] will also be grateful to him for having evoked so many fond old horse-show memories. -- William Steinkraus, four-time Olympic medal winner Renegade Champion is honest, compelling, and sometimes bittersweet. In and Around Horse Country This true story reads like a Hollywood script but better. Unlike many biographies, this one is decorated with anecdotes that only a child would pick up through a lifetime spent with his mother. He does a masterful job of relating facts and blending them with these wonderful tidbits, so that the reader seems to feel what's going through Pohl's mind rather than simply reading her words. The Chronicle Of The Horse Renegade Champion: The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada is a fitting tribute to Jane Pohl and the horse that propelled her to the top of the male-dominated jumper circuit of the 1940s. It's an extraordinary treat to go back in time when prized show horses were actually working hunters, to a world where Thoroughbreds were exalted, and to big indoor shows being covered nationally in newspapers. But more than that readers will easily relate to her frustrations and triumphs of a horse crazy girl, showing on a shoestring budget, rubbing and grooming herself and training a horse that doesn't have a blue-blooded pedigree-it's all there in vivid detail as if Jane wrote the book herself. Retired Racehorse blog
Author Bio
Richard R. Rust was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, a practicing civil engineer, and an amateur sportsman. The author died in 2008.