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Title: Wild Ride : The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty by Anne Hagedorn Auerbach ISBN: 0-8050-4242-3 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant. This is a GREAT story.
Comment: This book is amazing. Sure it's a fun tale, brilliantly told, of one of the most famous horse farms in history. But it's so much more. It's also a fantastic insight into excess and fraud and how businessmen commit it. Read it for the blood and guts and glory of horse racing. The story of Calumet is wonderful. But hang onto your hats. Auerbach's indepth investigative journalism shows the anatomy of a swindle. How J.T. Lundy, owner of Calumet, and his cohorts turned the most beautiful animals in the world into cash machines. How they debased the tradition of one of the noblest sports. Auerbach is undaunted by the complicated financial shinnegans that these people concocted to billk banks out of millions. In fact, I believe that her reporting is the reason that Lundy wound up getting indicted and convicted. And she tells it in such a compelling way that even someone who can't add 2 plus 2 can see how the rich sometimes get richer at our expense. Read it and weep. But know that in the end, justice was done.
Rating: 5
Summary: A murder mystery yet to be solved
Comment: WILD RIDE, by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach, (New York: Henry Holt, 1994) reads like the murder mystery that it very likely is. Subtitled "The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty," the book is the work of a journalist who specializes in reporting about white collar crime. But Auerbach is more than that: she is an admirer of horses also. The tragic hero of WILD RIDE is Alydar, one of the foremost stallions in american racing history, who was euthanized in November, 1990 after breaking a hind leg in his stall. While offering no definitive prrof that Alydarwas intentionally and fatally injured to collect $36.5-million in insurance proceeds, Auerbach examines the incident in extreme detail and weaves the death of the stallion into her exhaustive account of the management of Calumet during the tenure of chief executive officer J.T. Lundy. although the book is currently out of print, the recent reopening of the Alydar investigation may change that. In any case, WILD RIDE would make a marvelous primer for anyone who hopes to follow the course of the current federal probe into the stallion's death.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for Thoroughbred historians
Comment: Reads like a novel. An interesting peek inside one of the nation's most famous farms. Our copy has made the rounds of our barn many times, each border has read it at least twice. At times "Wild Ride" is sad, almost gut-wrenching, sometimes it can be rather amusing, and other times it reads like a Dick Francis murder mystery. This book belongs on every horseperson's desk. A valuable insight into early Thoroughbred history.
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Title: Great Horse Racing Mysteries by John McEvoy ISBN: 1581500521 Publisher: Eclipse Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack ISBN: 0306811332 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Hot Blood by Ken Englade ISBN: 0312957262 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Horse of a Different Color: A Tale of Breeding Geniuses, Dominant Females, and the Fastest Derby Winner Since Secretariat by Jim Squires, Jim Squires ISBN: 1586481177 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Stud : Adventures in Breeding by Kevin Conley ISBN: 1582343322 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 02 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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