Finished Lines: A Collection of Memorable Writings on Throughbred Racing

by Frank Scatoni

Book Overview

In this book, author and editor Frank Scatoni captures the essence of the sport that is both exhilarating and breathtaking, frustrating, and cruel. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970014732
• ISBN13: 9780970014733
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Daily Racing Form
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The best collection of columns on horse racing

Simply terriffic book compiling columns from racing writers through the century. As a fan of the game it's a bit sad to see how the sport has lost significance as the century passed. Still, this was the best racing book I own. As much as I like "Seabiscuit", "Ruffian", and the "Secretariat" books, "Finished Lines" is my favorite because it keeps moving and covers so many great writers.

Did you like "Seabiscuit"? Know anybody who did?

This book is a fabulous collection of writings about the world of horse racing--horses, jockeys, trainers, the works--by some of the best writers the sport and the world has ever seen. Count down to Derby Day 1955 with William Faulkner, revel in Damon Runyon's snappy verse about a jockey named Sande, and follow the great Andrew Beyer's misadventures at a bush track in Massachusetts.An excellent gift for racing fans or for fans of superior writing!