Crazy Like A Fox

AFTERWORD

Randolph D. Rouse, MFH, mentioned in this book, passed away after it was finished. He knocked out his last win as a horse trainer after his 100th birthday. Obviously, Randy was highly intelligent, fair-minded, physically tough, and great fun. How lucky we were to have had this incandescent presence for so long.

J. Harris Anderson, another writer and hunter, wrote in a remembrance in In and Around Horse Country, the official publication of the Virginia Steeplechase Association, Volume XXIX/Number 3 Summer 2017, that it was always a special moment at a hunt ball when Randy would sing “Young at Heart.”

Indeed.

He is survived by his energetic wife, Michele. Everyone notes that Michele was thirty-eight years younger than Randy. She had to be. Who else could keep up with him?