About the Author

MICHAEL SINCLAIR-SMITH was brought up in the Eng-lish countryside where he developed a passion for horses. He left England in 1965 and moved to Canada, where for a year, he was a huntsman to a pack of hounds in Ontario. From there he moved to Montreal and set up his own recruiting firm, became an amateur whipper-in and later field master. In the early 80s after taking up polo in Saratoga, he re-introduced polo to Montreal at his horse farm west of the city. He has hunted throughout America, England and Scotland and for fifteen seasons he organized and led hunting groups on trips to Ireland. He played polo in Jamaica, The Dominican Republic, Argen-tina and the USA. He has five children and still lives on his horse farm in St. Polycarpe, Quebec, where he indulges his passion for writing historical novels about Canada, Britain, Ireland and The United States involving the thrills of polo, racing, shooting and fox hunting.