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Author Geraldine Brooks didn’t get horse fever until she was 50, when she started riding, and eventually brought one home. It was also around the time when the author of “March,” a Pulitzer ...
Warfield Place, Lexington, Kentucky Elisha Warfield Jr. (February 5, 1781 – May 15, 1859) was an American physician and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder whom Thoroughbred Heritage calls "one of the most important early figures in Kentucky racing and breeding ."
A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield.Her father, Lawrie Brooks, was an American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on a tour of Australia when his manager absconded with the band's pay; he decided to remain in Australia, and became a newspaper sub-editor.
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
"Horse," by Geraldine Brooks, explores the unwritten history of America’s most famous racehorse—and how far we still have to go in confronting systemic racism. Geraldine Brooks on Racing—and ...
Join the Herald-Leader’s Kentucky Book Club and enjoy a new book each month by a Kentucky author. ... bumped alongside Code of Honor, right, as the field headed into the homestretch of the 145th ...
The book compiles seven short stories, all set in the Hispanic/Latino community in El Paso, Texas in the United States and its neighbouring city of Juárez, Chihuahua in Mexico. [1] The Kentucky Club, a real-life bar a few blocks south of the border crossing in Juárez, appears in all seven stories as a linking motif.
Geraldine Brooks' “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels' and Toluse Olorunnipa's “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial ...