Pons has bared a healthy portion of his heart and head, body and soul, all in celebration of his family, their land, and the peculiar animal that has tied them together through the generations. Pons is blessed with the ability to apply those ingredients to paper, and to leave a piece of himself lying open on the page.

– Jay Hovdey, Daily Racing Form

Merryland Farm, one of Maryland's oldest and loveliest Thoroughbred establishments, has returned to life under the ownership of brothers Josh and Mike Pons. And Josh Pons, with his lyrical prose and down-to-earth observations, tells the story like no one else could.

– Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred

Josh Pons, the Samuel Pepys of American Thoroughbred writers, has once again fashioned among the most readable, entertaining, and gracefully written books in the canon of modern Turf literature. A true supplement to his original Country Life Diary, this volume traces further the horseman's life in the historic, rolling Maryland countryside north of Baltimore. Merryland is a day-by-day chronicle enriched with local color, telling anecdotes, and prose that comes alive with wisdom, insight, and even love. For anybody who cares for this game, this is a wonderful read.

– William Nack, author of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion and My Turf: Horses, Boxers, Blood Money, and the Sporting Life