Location of horsefarms in Upper Hunter region

Recent work by Winchester et al. (2003) focuses on the cultural landscape, moving away from notions of nature and environment to explore the impact of films, religious beliefs and understandings of the body as landscapes. The idea of landscape has also been linked with scale, such that the concept of the landscape scale is often used to prioritize particular approaches vis-a-vis other scales such as the local 

3 Four Landscapes of the Upper Hunter Thoroughbred Breeding Industry 

Gentle hills are ideal for expensive horses. But drive about thirty miles from downtown Lexington in any direction. .. the hiUs are steeper, the pasmre is poorer, and the footing is far too dangerous for the tender, twistable ankles of the Thoroughbred. 

If you want to teU what kind of a fanner a man is, first then what catches your eye is his fences. If his fences are bad then he s not that, you know, that good of a farmer, you know. You can drive by farms and you see a nice, immaculate, well kept farm then that s a good farm. - Kentucky Interviewee 2 

The notion of a rural idyll and its relationship to function is therefore important and is evident in the following quotes from thoroughbred breeders (TB) and people associated with the industry. 

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Fig. 73.1 Location of horsefarms in Upper Hunter region. (Cartography by Dick Gilbreath)... 

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