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My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track
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My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track
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by Nan Mooney
Sales Rank : 932800
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks April 1, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060958081
ISBN-13: 978-0060958084
Product Dimensions:
8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
From Library Journal
This thoroughbred horse-racing memoir repeats much of what has been previously written about racing; it describes how race horses are bred, raced, and disposed of and offers anecdotes about jockeys, trainers, owners, and grooms. However, this account is unique in that Mooney tells how she came to love racing at her grandmother's knee, how her relationships with her grandmother and racing developed side by side, and how she gave up her passion for racing for a time after her grandmother's death. Mooney explains how, despite some of the sport's negative aspects, she loves the beauty and unpredictability of the horses, the risks and the excitement, and the fact that racing has both never-changing and ever-changing aspects. Mooney writes for the Blood-Horse, the journal of record for thoroughbred horse racing. Readers who enjoyed Joe Drape's The Race for the Triple Crown (LJ 4/15/01) and John McEvoy's Women in Racing: In Their Own Words (LJ 9/01/01) will appreciate this one. Recommended for medium to large public libraries and libraries with racing collections. Patsy E. Gray, Huntsville P.L., AL
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
The author received an ideal introduction to Thoroughbred racing at the hands of a beloved and highly knowledgeable grandmother while she was growing up in Seattle. Now a respected writer for the Blood Horse, racing's journal of record, she offers the next best thing to her readers. Mooney weaves the stories of a wide array of racetrack characters, both human and equine, past and present, through her own reminiscences of the track. Though mindful of the sport's many problems, from the toll it takes on overmedicated horses to the declining attendance at almost every track, she communicates her abiding passion for racing on every page. Mooney's deeply felt book will remind lapsed fans of what they are missing and prod the simply curious to investigate what it is about this uniquely participatory spectator sport that can inspire such love. Dennis Dodge
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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