80 SIDELINES OCTOBER 2014
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
sire of the newest addition to the Neff stable, a now-6-month-old
filly he calls Girlfriend. Leland talks about natural foaling the way
some people talk about natural childbirth. Leland helped deliver
Girlfriend and, because the New York weather in March was 15
degrees below zero, he slept with her in the barn her first three
nights under comforters he took from his bed. Now, Girlfriend
comes to him in the field like a puppy dog looking for treats.
As for what Sotheby’s source called reasonable, Leland is
somewhat hesitant to talk about his prices, only saying they start
at $3,500 for small water colors, and his large-scale commissioned
paintings, like the one of Rachel Alexandra, can cost as much
“Molly Ashe at
the Hampton
Classic”
30 x 40 oil on
canvas
“Gaucho III”
40 x 60 oil on canvas
Collection of Janna Rumbough
“Charlotte Weber’s Belmont Stakes”
18 x 24 oil on board
Collection of Charlotte Weber/ Live Oak Stud
as $20,000. The portrait of one of my Millbrook neighbors with
her favorite event horse is reputed locally to have cost $11,500,
though Leland wouldn’t comment.
Perfectly reasonable prices, compared to Stubbs and Munnings.
To learn more about Leland, visitwww.lelandneff.com or www.
lelandneffphoto.com
About the writer: Don Rosendale lives in an 18th Century farmhouse in the
Millbrook hunt country with Herring hunt prints but no Stubbs or Munnings, but says
the view from his windows of horses grazing in their paddocks is almost as good.
All photos by Leland Neff, unless noted otherwise
