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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Home Run Horse: Inside America's Billion-Dollar Racehorse Industry and the High-Stakes Dreams that Fuel Itby: Glenye Cain  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.21 You Save: $6.74 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 798.400973 EAN: 9780972640121 ISBN: 0972640126 Label: DRF Press Manufacturer: DRF Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: October 25, 2004 Publisher: DRF Press Studio: DRF Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The home run horse, the runner that makes your fortune and changes your life, can come from anywhere. This book will explore the quest for the superior Thoroughbred, who takes up the search for a life-changing horse and why they do it with limited success. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Excellent survey of horse racing in americaThe author, Glenye Cain, has been covering Barbaro for The Daily Racing Form. She sent me her book after I had had a few conversations with her about Barbaro, a horse she adopted (indirectly) off the racetrack that had at one time been trained by Graham Motion, and horse related issues such as horse-slaughter. As someone closely involved in racing I enjoyed the book as it shed light on aspects of our industry in which I was less familiar (breeding / auctions etc). I do think, however, the book best ... Read More Rating: - The Home Run Horse Hits It!A most interesting and arresting view of the Thoroughbred Horse Industry. Equally facinating to novice and experienced horsemen(women)alike. Horse racing at it's highest and lowest. Rating: - A vivid account of racing and the bloodstock businessAnyone with an interest in horseracing will enjoy Glenye Cain's behind-the-scenes look at the thoroughbred industry; and newcomers to the sport will find plenty to entertain them in these pages too. Cain has an eye for the details that make vivid this self-contained and expensive world: the quirks of the owners, breeders, trainers and horses. She conveys the atmosphere of the sales ring as wealthy owners do battle, of a stud farm late at night as a mare gives birth, of Churchill Downs racecourse as ... Read More 
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