Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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It was like the face of some ancient archangel, judging justly after heroic wars. There was laughter in the eyes, and in the mouth honour and sorrow. There was the same white hair, the same great, grey-clad shoulders that I had seen from behind. But when I saw him from behind I was certain he was an animal, and when I saw him in front I knew he was a god.
Gilbert K. Chesterton