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    The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World's Greatest Racehorse
    The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World's Greatest Racehorse
    The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World's Greatest Racehorse
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    The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World's Greatest Racehorse

    Written by Lawrence Scanlan

    Narrated by Joe Barrett

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    In The Horse God Built, bestselling equestrian writer Lawrence Scanlan has written a tribute to an exceptional man that is also a backroads journey to a corner of the racing world rarely visited.

    As a young black man growing up in South Carolina, Eddie Sweat struggled at several occupations before settling on the job he was born for-groom to North America's finest racehorses. As Secretariat's groom, loyal friend, and protector, Eddie understood the horse far better than anyone else. A wildly generous man who could read a horse with his eyes, he shared in little of the financial success or glamour of Secretariat's wins on the track, but won the heart of Big Red with his soft words and relentless devotion.

    In Scanlan's rich narrative, we get a groom's-eye view of the racing world and the vantage of a man who spent every possible moment with the horse he loved, yet who often basked in the horse's glory from the sidelines. More than anything else, The Horse God Built is a moving portrait of the powerful bond between human and horse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 27, 2017
    ISBN9781541477520
    Author

    Lawrence Scanlan

    LAWRENCE SCANLAN, based in Kingston, Ontario, workedwith Monty Roberts on his New York Times bestseller, The ManWho Listens to Horses, and he is the author of nine booksabout horses, including The Horse God Built: The Untold Storyof Secretariat, the World’s Greatest Racehorse.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent! Just an excellent book not just about arguably the greatest Thoroughbred racehorse that ever stepped on the racetrack; but also about his groom Edward "Shorty" Sweat. This is an easy read and well written. I really enjoyed it.
    • 3/5
      This book was largely a disappointment. If you are a fan of Secretariat, you really don't get any new information from this book. Wobbling between the life of Eddie Sweat and a few mere glimpses of Secretariat here or there, the book didn't have much direction. I loved Bill Nack's The Making of a Champion. And compared to that, this is just dull!