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Blood Horses : Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
Blood Horses Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
Author: John Jeremiah Sullivan
One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was . . . just beauty, you know?" — Sullivan didn't know, not really: the track had always been a place his father disappe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374172817
ISBN-10: 0374172811
Publication Date: 4/1/2004
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Very interesting book, for horse lovers and horse racing fans alike. Tells much of the journey to the Triple Crown and big stakes races. Horses, trainers, grooms, owners, he covers them all.


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