Horse racing has a way of wrapping itself around some people's souls. For George Rowand, that moment came watching Secretariat win the 1973 Preakness. From then on Rowand knew he wanted to be in horse racing. Diary of a Dream chronicles his failures and successes in the sport he loves.
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Diary of a Dream is a well-told story about the toil, tension, and exhilaration of owning and racing thoroughbred horses. Rowand begins his account in 1991 at the grade I Gamely Handicap at Hollywood Park, California, as the beloved Miss Josh, "our girl, the one whose mating we had planned, whose birth we had eagerly awaited, and whose career had been so iffy because of her lousy feet, put her nose on the wire." With humor and candor, he goes on to recount his entire journey in thoroughbred racing which began with the dream--"truly ludicrous" as he admits--of owning champion racehorses.
Horse lovers will find much to like about this book. I was caught up in Rowand's precise descriptions of every race, and the implications of every race, which his horses ran. Something else I liked: this is a "we" book. The dream belonged to Rowand; the support of family and friends made it real.
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A memoir of the ups and downs of Thoroughbred breeding and ownership.
Rowand had a quixotic dream: to breed his own Thoroughbred stakes winners. He went about this by buying yearling fillies, trying to race them, and then, when they didn't do much on the track, breeding them. One essentially unsound filly, bred to a succession of inexpensive stallions, amazingly produced one stakes winner after another. An engaging account, but the concept of breeding on unsound horses, at least one of which could never even make it to the races at all, left me with a sense of lasting discomfort.
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This book is full of the vocabulary and the realities of breeding and racing horses - an intriguing world few of us understand.
Rowand gives us a story of success but also of the nature of risk and of perseverance - had he given up in year six then the following decade of against the odds success would not have happened. Want inspiration to follow your dream? Read this book.
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Standing in the aisle behind the box seats at Hollywood Park on the first Sunday in June in 1991, I was trying to shake off my nervousness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maiden claimer, turf mares, allowance race, graded stakes winner, turf course, racing secretary, fragile dream, stakes record, stakes race, eighth pole, stakes winners, stakes horse, horse business, early pace, claiming race, early speed, first foal, assistant trainer, track officials, racing career, ten lengths Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Josh, Highland Springs, Highland Crystal, Highland Mills, Capture the Magic, Royal Highlander, Fire the Groom, New York, Kent Desormeaux, Kentucky Derby, Tom Hinkle, Eclipse Award, Summer Secretary, Laffit Pincay, Racing Form, Band Leader, Belmont Park, Julie Krone, Marilyn Glen, Sandra Forbush, Edgar Prado, Flying Scotsman, Barclay Tagg, Charlie Hadry, Cup Mile New!
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Standing in the aisle behind the box seats at Hollywood Park on the first Sunday in June in 1991, I was trying to shake off my nervousness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maiden claimer, turf mares, allowance race, graded stakes winner, turf course, racing secretary, fragile dream, stakes record, stakes race, eighth pole, stakes winners, stakes horse, horse business, early pace, claiming race, early speed, first foal, assistant trainer, track officials, racing career, ten lengths Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Josh, Highland Springs, Highland Crystal, Highland Mills, Capture the Magic, Royal Highlander, Fire the Groom, New York, Kent Desormeaux, Kentucky Derby, Tom Hinkle, Eclipse Award, Summer Secretary, Laffit Pincay, Racing Form, Band Leader, Belmont Park, Julie Krone, Marilyn Glen, Sandra Forbush, Edgar Prado, Flying Scotsman, Barclay Tagg, Charlie Hadry, Cup Mile New!
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- Winston Churchill (Penguin Lives Biographies) by John Keegan on page 27
- The Supreme Court (Places in American History) by Catherine Reef on page 174
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