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118 ja n ua r y/ f e b r ua r y 2 015 U n tac k e d u Foxhunting's Glossary Of Silly Words And Laws Gretchen Pelham takes a droll approach to the customs of this traditional sport with a handy new lexicon in our nov. 24 foxhunting Issue of the Chronicle. "The Plastic Dinosaur effect," she writes, "is a Tennessee Valley Hunt tradition defined as 'the calming effect from a silly toy kept in the pocket of anyone who tends to be overly serious or pretentious. because after all, how can one take himself too seriously while a plastic dinosaur is kept in his pocket?' " Don't Miss In The Magazine u This Is What Form Over Fences Looks Like When George Morris says those words, you'd better sit up and take notice. In this reprint in our nov. 17 issue of the Chronicle of a much-loved between rounds column, the living legend takes modern hunter riders to task by highlighting beautiful examples of equitation from decades gone by. "Here is frank, pictured aboard Peggy augustus' champion working hunter Defense at the Cologne, Ger- many, show in 1956," Morris writes of frank Chapot, one of the six riders he critiques. "yes, not infrequently, some of our great hunters went to europe and stepped up to the jumper classes like this. Can you imagine that happening today?" GreTCHen PelHaM PHoTo foTo-MITSCHke PHoTo u Learning Curve: The Challenges Of Learning To ride As An Adult "your education, job title or work experience doesn't matter here," writes humorist jody lynne Werner in our Dec. 15 amateur Issue of the Chronicle. "Got a Ph.D.? a savvy school horse can still outsmart you. nominated for a nobel Prize? no amount of recog- nition gives you immunity from getting dumped. Pride yourself on logical thought? you can throw that out the window. I once wit- nessed a lesson horse 'run away'—at the walk—with an adult man. The gelding got halfway down the road before we could catch up and turn him around. The man—an accomplished law profes- sional—just couldn't wrap his brain around how the horse could walk in one direction while he was turning its head in another." bEst of wEb & print