The Home Run Horse: Inside America's Billion-Dollar Racehorse Industry and the High-Stakes Dreams That Fuel It

by Cain, Glenye

• ISBN13: 9780972640121
• ISBN10: 0972640126
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

The homerun horse, the runner that makes your fortune and changes your life, can come from anywhere. This book will explore the quest for the superior Thoroughbred . Who takes up the search for a life-changing horse and why they do it with limited success.

Author Biography

Glenye Cain is the bloodstock business writer for Daily Racing Form, covering Thoroughbred auctions and breeding. She has written about Thoroughbred racing and breeding for numerous publications since 1986 and is a co-author of Champions: The Lives, Times, and Past Performances of the 20th Century's Greatest Thoroughbreds. An avid rider, she has exercised racehorses in Florida and Ireland. A graduate of Princeton University, Cain lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with her beagles. She also owns two Thoroughbreds, one of them a retired racehorse.

Table of Contents

1 The Gamble	1	(21)
2 The Payoff	22	(21)
3 A Kingdom in a Horse	43	(28)
4 On the Production Line	71	(22)
5 The Fragile Factory	93	(30)
6 The Good Eye	123	(28)
7 A Dollar and a Dream	151	(25)
8 Family Values	176	(20)
9 Delicate as Hell	196	(29)
10 "I Owed Him"	225	(20)
Bibliography	245	(4)
Acknowledgments	249