The Orphan and the Mouse features black and white drawings by David McPhail and tells of
Mary mouse, a skilled thief who is admired by her entire mouse community, until a mission gone wrong leads to an exterminator.
CHALLENGE Left to right, James Middleton, Andrew Turnbull, Sarah Straker,
Mary Mouse Straker, Charlotte and Philip Straker and Nick Van Gruisen in the Safaricom Race TERRAIN The landscape which formed the backdrop to the race DETERMINED Philip Straker forges ahead in the Safaricom Race GETTING THERE Charlotte Straker SPECTATOR A buffalo spotted during the race KEEP GOING
Mary Mouse Straker
Lyn Richards, 65, Thornhill, Cardiff "My most treasured books are a collection of Mary Mouse books by Enid Blyton that I started reading when I was four.
They're set in a dolls' house and Mary Mouse's family are servants to the human dolls, a mummy, daddy, good girl, naughty boy and round baby called 'Roundy' who everyone loves.
No fewer than five of the 12 entries made by Tally Ho Stud in Co Westmeath are from the first crop of its resident stallion Blues Traveller, kicking off with a bay half-brother to two winners out of Mary
Mary Mouse (25), whose dam is a half-sister to Law Society.