Scanlan, Lawrence. frey50
The horse God built : the untold story of Secretariat, the world's greatest racehorse / Lawrence Scanlan. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007. - xii, 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Prologue: a horse and his groom -- Rarity -- Red horse, Black angel -- Connection -- Backstretch: Eddie's world -- Grace -- Your miracle has arrived -- Greatest -- Eddie was a prince -- Parade of stallions -- Full of run -- Gift -- Catching a glimpse of glory -- Adulation -- Ghost of Eddie Sweat -- Thoroughbred stallion -- Pilgrimage -- My baby -- Eulogy for a horse -- Knowing horses -- Epilogue: in praise of a bond.
In The Horse God Built Lawrence Scanlan gives the reader a groom's-eye view of the most exciting time in racing history. But more than anything else, it is a moving portrait of the powerful bond between human and horse.
9780312367244 0312367244 9780312382254 (trade pbk.) 0312382251 (trade pbk.)
2007008903
Secretariat (Race horse)
Race horses--United States
798.400929 Sca 4
The horse God built : the untold story of Secretariat, the world's greatest racehorse / Lawrence Scanlan. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007. - xii, 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Prologue: a horse and his groom -- Rarity -- Red horse, Black angel -- Connection -- Backstretch: Eddie's world -- Grace -- Your miracle has arrived -- Greatest -- Eddie was a prince -- Parade of stallions -- Full of run -- Gift -- Catching a glimpse of glory -- Adulation -- Ghost of Eddie Sweat -- Thoroughbred stallion -- Pilgrimage -- My baby -- Eulogy for a horse -- Knowing horses -- Epilogue: in praise of a bond.
In The Horse God Built Lawrence Scanlan gives the reader a groom's-eye view of the most exciting time in racing history. But more than anything else, it is a moving portrait of the powerful bond between human and horse.
9780312367244 0312367244 9780312382254 (trade pbk.) 0312382251 (trade pbk.)
2007008903
Secretariat (Race horse)
Race horses--United States
798.400929 Sca 4