- Hardcover: 196 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (July 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385483538
- ISBN-13: 978-0385483537
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.7 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,407,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Red Smith, the late great sportswriter for The New York Times, once observed that whenever he was at a loss on how to fill his daily column, all he had to do was visit a racetrack and he'd come away with a dozen good scenes for a story.
Each chapter of The Right Horse contains anecdotes and sayings, bits of lore and track wisdom that will serve to illuminate the world of horseracing. William Murray takes the reader on a tour of the track, introducing them to the game and its players. Not only the horses, but also the people whose lives are bound up with them, front and backside: owners, trainers, jockeys, touts, tipsters and hustlers. The reader will gain a knowledge of how this world works--what it looks, what it smells like, tastes like--and how much fun it can be.
Each chapter of The Right Horse contains anecdotes and sayings, bits of lore and track wisdom that will serve to illuminate the world of horseracing. William Murray takes the reader on a tour of the track, introducing them to the game and its players. Not only the horses, but also the people whose lives are bound up with them, front and backside: owners, trainers, jockeys, touts, tipsters and hustlers. The reader will gain a knowledge of how this world works--what it looks, what it smells like, tastes like--and how much fun it can be.
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Not bad, just not as good as The Wrong Horse
17 Sep 2001
Format:Hardcover
William Murray, The Right Horse (Doubleday, 1997)
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Murray's The Wrong Horse was one of the truly amusing
books in equine literature, a collection of anecdotes
that gives ample evidence that Murphy's Law is a live,
well, and an intimate of every person at a racetrack,
from the grooms to the president to the long-suffering
punters. The Right Horse unfortunately abandons the
jocularity for the most part and takes the tone of an
instruction manual; an odd choice for a book whose
subtitle claims, in part, that the book wants you to
have a great time at the track.
Not to say it's a bad book by any stretch of the
imagination; it's more a question of repetition. If
you've read more than two handicapping primers, it's
likely you've seen a good deal of what's here in the
past. Murray writes well, even when he's not taking
potshots at Mr. Murphy and his law's application to
racing, and the book is certainly readable. I'd just
have liked to see more that hadn't previously been
said. ** 1/2
A nice primer and a fun read
14 Sep 2011
Format:Hardcover
If you are new to the world of horse racing and would like to increase your fun at the track by placing a few bets, this is good place to start. Yes, there are much more detailed books on handicapping out there, but for the novice, this is not only a good overview but an entertaining read. Peppered with laugh out loud anecdotes and colored with a good old fashioned way of writing that is at the same time unabashed in language, it is a refreshing supplement for the newbie who is reading the Dummies book on the subject (always good), slogging through the Form and buying betting tips on the Internet.
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