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- 1 2 3 4 Oughton Limited: The Chronicle of the Horse
- 1 2 Mary Fishback, Northern Virginia's Equestrian Heritage, Arcadia Publishing, 2002
- ↑ Glen Ora, Well-fixed gentry in a changeless town, Life , March 10, 1961, p. 85
- ↑ In equine-crazy Middleburg, a horse magazine sale stirs controversy
- ↑ Foxhunting Life: The Chronicle of the Horse is sold.
