Dan Rodricks: A new Maryland library testifies to our eternal fascination with horses

Easily distracted by spring and the call of the wild, I doubt I could sit this month in the Maryland Horse Library and Education Center, appealing as it is, and read a history of British steeplechase, though one never knows: It might give me the itch to attend this month’s Maryland Hunt Cup for the first time in years. Still, in fall or winter, on a day of rain or snow, I could see myself sitting in the library’s comfortable loft with some old book about horse racing or horse shoeing or horse barn building or running hounds with horses.