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C H R O N O F H O R S E . C O M FA L L 2 014 105 in the summer of 1946. It gave him "untold enjoyment and con- tacts of great interest with other collectors at home and abroad." He was a member of the Grolier Club, a private New York society for bibliophiles. His rarefied collection spanned five centu- ries and included e Book of Saint Albans, written by Dame Juli- ana Berners in 1486 on hawking, hunting, heraldry and angling. A large portion of his notable collection of sporting books was sold at auction in New York by Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1945 and 1956. According to Richard Hooper, an antiquarian book expert based in Middleburg, Va., "One of the remarkable items in the 1956 sale was the 1820 folio first issue of e National Sports of Great Britain by Henry Alken. It contains 50 hand-colored plates and was in contemporary leather binding by omas Gosden. Selling at $475, it was the second most expensive item in an auc- tion of 575 lots. Today, it would fetch more than $25,000." Several books from Maclay's collection are now at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg. Two years after Maclay died, in 1944, his widow opened the Killearn gardens in Tallahassee to the public. e estate, now known as the Maclay Gardens, was gifted to the state of Florida on March 31, 1953, and is now managed by the Florida Park Ser- vice. Louise Maclay died in September of 1973. After the National Horse Show left Madison Square Garden, its home of 105 years, in 1989, the class was held at several other locations. Since 2011, the National and the event known simply as "e Maclay" have been staged at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. It will be held this year on Sunday, Nov. 2. Above: Louise Maclay (far left) with friends in Killearn's secret garden in 1953, around the time she donated the 307-acre sanctuary to the Florida Board of Parks and Historic Memorials as a memorial to her late husband, Alfred B. Maclay. Left: The same hidden nook, more than 60 year later. Previous winners of the Maclay 1933 Audrey Hasler Chesney 1934 Elizabeth Hyland Molony 1935 Lillian M. Chambers Lindemann 1936 Ellie Wood P.K. Baxter 1937 Walton Perry Davis Jr. 1938 Archie Dean Jr. 1939 Hugh Dean 1940 James Thomas Jr. 1941 William C. Steinkraus 1942 William P. Dunn III 1943 Anne Morningstar 1944 Alice Babcock 1945 Nancy Dean 1946 Elaine Moore 1947 Frank Chapot 1948 Charlotte Hanlon 1949 Myrna Jackson Felvy 1950 Mary Gay Huffard 1951 G. Baker Schroeder Jr. 1952 George H. Morris 1953 Glenna Lee Maduro 1954 Ronnie Martini 1955 Wilson Dennehy 1956 Barbara Friedemann 1957 J. Michael Plumb 1958 Wendy Hanson 1959 Hank Minchin 1960 Mary Mairs 1961 Bernie Traurig 1962 Carol Altman 1963 Wendy Mairs 1964 Lane Schultz 1965 Chrystine Jones 1966 Debbie Wilson Jenkins 1967 Conrad Homfeld 1968 Brooke Hodgson 1969 Katie Monahan 1970 Fred Bauer 1971 Anna Jane White 1972 Leslie Burr 1973 Michael Patrick 1974 Alex Dunaif 1975 Katharine Burdsall 1976 Collette Lozins 1977 Francie Steinwedell 1978 Michael Sasso 1979 Gary Young 1980 Laura Tidball 1981 Lisa Castellucci 1982 Peter Wylde 1983 Linda Kossick 1984 Francesca Mazella 1985 Steve Heinecke 1986 Scott Hofstetter 1987 Stacia Klein 1988 Christy Conard 1989 Raymond Texel 1990 Lauren Kay 1991 Peter Lutz 1992 Nicole Shahinian 1993 Kelley Farmer 1994 Leslie Fishback 1995 Megan Johnstone 1996 Lauren Bass 1997 Keri Kampsen 1998 Erynn Ballard 1999 Emily Williams 2000 Avery Dimmig 2001 Brian Walker 2002 Erin Stewart 2003 Matthew Sereni 2004 Megan Young 2005 Brianne Goutal 2006 Maggie McAlary 2007 Kimberly McCormack 2008 Jessica Springsteen 2009 Zazou Hoffman 2010 Hayley Barnhill 2011 Sarah Milliren 2012 Jacob Pope 2013 Lillie Keenan e ASPCA Maclay Final Throughout the annual horse show circuit, 1,100 junior riders now participate in this equitation event at 900 loca- tions in 48 states and Canada. At the end of the season, eight regional qualifiers are followed by the championship, held each November at the National Horse Show.

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