Porch Reading

I can't say enough how important it is that you read W.C. Heinz's Death of a Racehorse: They were going to the post for the sixth race at Jamaica, two year olds, some making their first starts, to go five and a half furlongs for the purse of four thousand dollars. They were moving slowly down the backstretch toward the gate, some of the cantering, others walking, and in the press box they had stopped working on the kidding to watch, most of the interested in one horse.

"Air Lift," Jim Roach said. "Full brother of Assault."