Three Strides Before the Wire: The Dark and Beautiful World of Horse Racing
by Elizabeth Mitchell
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Author: Elizabeth MitchellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-16
ISBN: 0786886226
Number of pages: 403
Publisher: Hyperion
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- ISBN13: 9780786886227
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Three Strides Before the Wire: The Dark and Beautiful World of Horse Racing
Book Review: A Haunting Story Of Life And Death
Summary: 4 Stars
Wow, this was a haunting story. Technically, it's about the 1999 Kentucky Derby winner Charismatic and the people around him, the horse racing business in general and a personal account of the author's dying friend. Really, it's a book about life and death.
The book not only is a good place for novice horse racing fans to learn about the sport but offers some very insightful tidbits to long-time race fans.
I really got caught up in the story of Charismatic's jockey Chris Antley. I just can't get over Antley's incredible ups-and-downs of his cut short-career. It made me just appreciate all the more the sacrifice and dedication of jockeys, the most amazing athletes, perhaps, in professional sports.
To me, Antley's story is the highlight of this book. His story takes up more pages than the rest, and that was a good move by the author Elizabeth Mitchell as her account of the famous jockey is just fascinating. Readers expecting nothing but horse racing throughout the book are going to get put off with several chapters, but skip them if don't want to read those things.
I think fellow Amazon reviewer Jim Pettyjohn summed it up best when he wrote; "This is a book of love lived and love lost; of poverty and wealth; of mental illness and addiction; of the highest highs and the lowest lows; of incredible joy and overwhelming pain; of journeys realized and journeys lost."
Almost everyone in this story experienced several of the above, but Antley experienced all of them. For that, I appreciated the telling of his story.
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