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Authors: C. E. Morgan
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My deepest gratitude to Will Guild; Jonathan Galassi and Ellen Levine; Adam Clay Griffey; Terry and Bernice Morgan and Max Schweitzer; my friends; Sally Rhoads; Eugene Startzman; Barbara Napier; the Lannan Foundation; the USA Foundation; the Whiting Foundation; the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library; the Kentucky Arts Council; and Hank, a great spirit who accompanied me along the way.
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CONTENTS
1Â Â Â Â Â THE STRANGE FAMILY OF THINGS
2Â Â Â Â Â THE SPIRIT OF LESSER ANIMALS
3Â Â Â Â Â NOTHING BUT A BURNING LIGHT
4Â Â Â Â Â THE SURVIVAL MACHINE
6Â Â Â Â Â THE INTERPRETATION OF HORSES
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Map copyright © 2016 by Jeffrey L. Ward
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First edition, 2016
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:
“How to Identify a Thoroughbred” from The Jockey Club Registry, reprinted with permission of The Jockey Club. Copyright © 2016 The Jockey Club. Secretariat's measurements from the
Daily Racing Form
copyright © 2016 by Daily Racing Form, LLC. Reprinted with permission of the copyright owner.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Morgan, C. E., 1976â author.
Title: The sport of kings / C. E. Morgan.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015038512Â |Â ISBN 9780374281083 (hardback)Â |Â ISBN 9780374715175 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: FamiliesâKentuckyâFiction. | HorsesâBreedingâFiction. | Horse racingâFiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary.
Classification: LCC PS3613.O73 S68 2016Â |Â DDC 813/.6âdc23
LC record available at
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