Bloodlines : A Story of Horses, Family, and Obsession

Nicholas, Liza J.

University of Nebraska Press（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 210 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781496247322

Full Description

Bloodlines: A Story of Horses, Family, and Obsession is a love story—of a mother's love for her husband and a father's love for horses. Combining memoir and social history with a journey into the world of horses, Liza J. Nicholas reveals how a parent's passions can determine the destiny of an entire family.

In the darkest days of the Depression, and still in high school, Nicholas's father, Chuck, escaped his fate on a failing Iowa farm and joined a local horse trainer on the nationwide county fair circuit. From the moment he fell in with the strutting strangers who passed through town at fair time, his life trajectory was set. He was ensorcelled by the thoroughbred, the most royal of equines. And even as he and his wife had children of their own, the menagerie of grooms, jockeys, trainers, and gamblers who made up the world of horse racing became his true family.

Set in western Montana, the Nebraska Sandhills, rural Iowa, and beyond, Bloodlines tells the story of how one man's passions ripple through generations. It is the story of a family who followed their father across the country in search of the fastest horse, the best deal, the promise of a payday.

Contents

List of Illustrations
1. Sold
2. Bush Leaguers
3. Conformation
4. Lineage
5. Pedigree
6. All Out
7. The Backside
8. Ray
9. Blind Switch
10. The Kentucky Derby
11. Head of the Stretch
12. Walkover
Epilogue
Acknowledgments