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‘A twist on Margaret Atwood’s famous book.

Whenever we have dystopian literature I always

feel that the animals get left out of the story. Sure

we know what happens to the humans, but what

of the wildlife, what of the horses? Then I realised

that like the maidens, horses also wear hoods,

wear muzzles, breed and run in maiden races!

So the idea was born. My vision of a red horse

in a white hood, throwing off her rider and

escaping the nightmare of ‘Gilead’. I have made

the horse from red felt, a saddle from the leather

of an old Bible cover and thrown in a lot of text

from the Book of Genesis, combined with some

form and statistics from the Maiden Stakes

in The Racing Post.’