Filter By. Reset All. Customer Review. Add to Cart failed. Please try again later. Add to Wish List failed. Remove from wishlist failed. Adding to library failed. Please try again. Follow podcast failed. Covering everything from the flamboyant owner's successful track record, the jockey's earlier heartbreaking losses, and the Hall of Fame trainer's intensity, Drape paints a stirring portrait of a horse for the ages and the people around him. Kept hoping the story would be remarkable about horse, people, but boring, long, no spark,.
If you want to listen to a poorly written hagiography of Bob Baffert and his perfect family, this is your book. I made it through 3 chapters. The writing implies that the reader has the intellect of a toddler. The performer also puts emphasis in strange places.
Not a fan. The reading itself was done well, but I quickly got fed up with the cutesy storyline and the tendency to make everything like a children's storybook. It did everything but say "when a mommy horse and a daddy horse love each other very much. Anderson never once felt the need to get syrupy about his subjects. Other writers have been able to do a good job writing about competitive horses, but this one just didn't appeal to me. Within three chapters, I'd had enough. If you have worked with horses, are familiar with the horse industry as a whole and the racing industry specifically, this book may not be for you.
If your sole contact with horses has been seeing them on TV and the occasional police and carriage horse, this will give you the depth of explanation that helps you understand how racers are bred, raised, trained, and competed.
I couldn't stand "War Horse" either. Want a good story? Yeah, I know it's not about a race horse. You don't have to settle for this. The author effectively uses the story of one horse to provide a comprehensive list at the many players in the thoroughbred horse industry. Enjoyed learning how much dedication and effort is required from the whole team including the "background" players to make a two-minute race possible. Although the author's goal was not an expose of the industry, he didn't shy away from discussing issues.
As a horse racing fan and veteran reader of equine biographies, my expectations for accuracy, and reality, have been crushed over the decades. Of the three previous Triple Crown winners in my lifetime, only Secretariat's bios by Wolfe and perhaps Nack, did their subject justice. This one tries, but also falls short. The author is well acquainted with horse racing, and is in a position to get some things right that others might miss.
But certain small errors, and apparent poor editing, are jarring at times. Many facts are introduced in one chapter, and then reintroduced in a subsequent one as if they were new information the reader had not heard before. It as though the book was an assemblage of separate essays, rather than a seamless whole. In fairness Drape does capture a fair bit of the drama involved in Pharoah's career. This is undermined by the reader's strong tendency to emote.
Emphases are often in the wrong places, and subject breaks often melded confusingly together. I enjoyed the book somewhat, and am happy to have listened, because I love the subject. But I was frequently frustrated with the experience as well.
A rare and mostly honest look at the personalities that are the face of horse racing. I felt like the excitement of the actual races was missing. But I really enjoyed the book and learned a thing or two about what goes on behind the scenes. Having worked on a thoroughbred breeding farm, and worked with horses all my life, the details of this book were somewhat accurate, but told with so much anthropomorphism and melodrama that I couldn't listen to the whole thing!
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