An Englishman in Texas: a memoir

by Ron Kenney

An Englishman in Texas is a memoir by Ron Kenney, an English jockey who came to the United States in 1960. His autobiographical account begins with his childhood in the northeast of England during WWII. He goes on to describe how, with no knowledge of horses, he was sent four hundred miles from home at 14 years of age to apprentice as a jockey. He'd been turned away by the foreman at the coal mine because he was too small. The story follows Kenney...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948692023
• ISBN13: 9781948692021
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Madville Publishing LLC
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"