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Death of a racehorse : an American story / Katie Bo Lillis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025Edition: First Sim & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xxix, 351 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781668017012 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 798.4 23
Contents:
The best at what you do -- Go west, young man -- The cowboy hat -- Derby fever -- Free form every mortal sin, including Butazolidin -- It was the poppies! -- Sudden death -- Social license to operate -- The racing business -- "Eyes and gut" -- Stuart Janney's quest -- The cops -- "Nobody goes to jail for an epogen positive" -- The backside -- Belonging -- The ghost of Alex Harthill -- Through the looking glass -- The raid -- All heart -- The positive -- The Saturday Night Live effect -- 21 picograms -- The bottom line -- Hate the game, not the player -- "We're all just whores"?.
Awards:
  • A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Summary: "The inside story of the crisis within the country's most classic sport-horseracing-and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game"--Provided by publisher.
Item type: Book
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The best at what you do -- Go west, young man -- The cowboy hat -- Derby fever -- Free form every mortal sin, including Butazolidin -- It was the poppies! -- Sudden death -- Social license to operate -- The racing business -- "Eyes and gut" -- Stuart Janney's quest -- The cops -- "Nobody goes to jail for an epogen positive" -- The backside -- Belonging -- The ghost of Alex Harthill -- Through the looking glass -- The raid -- All heart -- The positive -- The Saturday Night Live effect -- 21 picograms -- The bottom line -- Hate the game, not the player -- "We're all just whores"?.

Junior Library Guild

"The inside story of the crisis within the country's most classic sport-horseracing-and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game"--Provided by publisher.

Ages 14 & Up.

Grades 9 & Up.

A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)

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