Hot Blood

by Ken Englade

Book Overview

From the polo grounds of Palm Beach to the lavish horse farms of Connecticut to Chicago's wealthiest suburbs and Kentucky's thoroughbred stables, bestselling author Ken Englade takes a riveting look... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312957262
• ISBN13: 9780312957261
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Hot Blood

A real page turner. Ken Englade did an excellent job organizing and presenting all of the people, facts, and situations involved...not an easy task.

Hot Blood The Millionairess, the Money and the Horse murders

Excellent reading and an amazing and startling story of the greed and determination of some of high society within the equestrian industry. I would recommend this book to anyone involved in the Equestrian industry. Jack Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Terrific Book - A Must Read

Anyone involved in the showing of hunter/jumper horses on theA-Circuit should read this book. It is well researched and I could not put it down. Although it came out in 1996..the same thing is going on in 2004. I show horses & what I have seen during the past few years in the name of "sport" is disgusting. This book accurately portrays the greed, lack of character & criminality of some so-called horse people. It is such a shame for the honest,good horse professionals out there. They usually get drummed out of the A'Circuit if they won't play ball w/ the crooks that have control In the Virginia, Maryland area, it is business as usual. Drugging horses & ponies, showing lame animals, ruining them & "having to put them down"...because, "oh well, they can't do the job anymore" & collecting insurance to buy another expensive horse & pay more commmissions to the trainers & middlemen. I've seen a well- known broker/dealer of ponies becoming rich by lying & conning unsuspecting parents who are listening to the "advice" of their trainers...not realizing that they are all tied in on the "con". Kickbacks, pay-offs, drugging,not claiming sales/commissions on tax returns, falsifying the true ages of horses & ponies, as well as, falsifying vet records. You name it, it's happening right now. AHSA (now called USEF) the governing body of show horses has been completely ineffectual in rectifying this criminal behavior. When trainers are caught using illegal drugs on their ponies & horses, they get a mere slap on the hand. The type of customer that stays w/ them is just as bad...the win at all cost attitude w/ no regard for the harm it does the horse or risk for the rider...many who are children. I applaud the DA in Illinois who went after these scum (some who are currently still involved in the horse business) I think a criminal investigation should be opened up on this entire racket. It is a huge fraud. THis book accurately depicts the horse show world right now.

the frightening part is that it is all true

this expose of the otherwise ignored goings on in the world of Hunters and Jumpers is shocking to those not on the "inside". To others, it is business as usual. Unfortunately. Truly appalling is that these people who KILLED their horses for money are STILL involved in the business. AND there are others who didn't get caught...This book is a MUST READ for anyone involved in the horse world.

Thanks for the Truth

As a horseperson, I want to thank Ken for his articulate research and story-telling ablility to not only cover the Horse-insurance scandle but make it an interesting mystery. I have long suspected this problem and even AHSA would like it to be swept away. Ken also tactfully covers the hoses' deaths without overtaxing the sympathetic reader. More hosepeople can go ahead and get the details on the criminal humans here. Your appendix with its list of horses, people and their outcome was as interesting as the book itself. If more would read this book, it would help the legitimate horse world.