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[SR: 2727099], Paperback, [EAN: 9780299192242], University of Wisconsin Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Book, [PU: University of Wisconsin Press], University of Wisconsin Press, Fol… Altro …

[SR: 2727099], Paperback, [EAN: 9780299192242], University of Wisconsin Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Book, [PU: University of Wisconsin Press], University of Wisconsin Press, Following his alienated lover to an Ohio race track, Michael Klein began a five-year career as a professional groom in the world of horse racing, which eventually included caring for 1984 Kentucky Derby winner, Swale. Klein formed an intense, loving bond with the colt, but his life was shadowed by the undertow of his alcoholism, a complicated relationship with his lover, and his memories of an abusive childhood. Track Conditions is a heartfelt story of resilience that examines the track conditions that can create and destroy champions, and those that can ruin or save a man., Pursuing a lover who fled because of his alcoholism, the author wound up as a racetrack groom in Cincinnati. His lyrical, episodic narrative chronicles five years in horse racing (1979-84), with flashbacks to a ghastly childhood. Michael Klein (now sober) is a poet, and it shows in his unerring use of just the right words to describe, precisely yet colorfully, an out-of-control life that climaxed with being fired just before his Kentucky Derby-winning colt ran the Preakness. A moving memoir and a loving depiction of the byzantine track world., 3048891, Memoirs, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 2446, Biographies, 2447, Baseball, 2448, Basketball, 9681293011, Boxing, Wrestling & MMA, 2449, Football, 281388, Golf, 1043966, Hockey, 2451, Soccer, 26, Sports & Outdoors, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 16567, Racing, 16560, Horses, 16533, Individual Sports, 26, Sports & Outdoors, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 16244291, LGBT, 11298, Specific Demographics, 11232, Social Sciences, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

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