As Master, Rita Mae is the head of the foxhunt club, deciding the plan for the day’s hunting and overseeing all aspects of the hunt club. Not surprisingly, that little girl grew up to be Master of Foxhounds and Huntsman of the Oak Ridge Hunt club near Charlottesville, Virginia. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything more beautiful.” When I was little, there were some ladies who rode sidesaddle and they would take their fences in style. “I would go to horse shows but what I really liked were the people in the foxhunt field. Rita Mae’s early heroes were accomplished riders. Riding changes your mind and your spirit and you become much more grateful for other forms of life.” You have to meet them half way or it really isn’t going to work. She explains, “In order to really build a partnership with a horse you have to completely change your way of thinking. It seems that Rita Mae learned some things about life when she learned about riding. She was a good person, but she wasn’t going to baby me at all.” She says, “My mother would throw me on old farm horses. But before any of those accomplishments, Rita Mae rode horses. She is also an advocate for equal rights and an Emmy nominated screenwriter and poet. Rita Mae Brown is well known for the entertaining novels she writes where household pets and other animals take an active part in solving the murder mystery. Photo by Barbara Bower, By Doris Degner-Foster Rita Mae, cub hunting from a fixture, or location, of Oak Ridge Hunt.
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