A Shooting Star
While attending the Keeneland thoroughbred sales in Kentucky, a senior psychoanalyst reconnects with his youthful fervor for thoroughbred racing. Returning to California, he finds himself with re-awakened dreams but without the financial wherewithal to pursue them. A chance event in his practice leads him to an entrepreneurial veterinary-school dropout who has put together the Gerson Racing Stable, a motley crew of sixty racetrack enthusiasts and Runyonesque characters that buy and sell claiming horses. For $3000, he joins the group and the Gerson horses win their first six races. The team is Living the Dream, its motto. Mike Mitchell, the tr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4401-4615-2
- EAN: 9781440146152
- Produktnummer: 4878743
- Verlag: iUniverse
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 204 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.2 cm 280 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 280
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