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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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It Gets in Your Blood: Lives of the Racecourse

It Gets in Your Blood: Lives of the Racecourse

Smith, Marty

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1776923219
ISBN13: 9781776923212
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 336
Language: English

'Come for a ride with me, and see what I see, down in the dirt and sweat and horseshit, right in the belly of the work of a racing stable. These are my real people, and this is the life I would lead if I hadn't been looking out for my father, a child of the Depression. Be a teacher, he said, or a nurse, people always want those people. I only just started riding work when he was lying in a coma. Could I tell him how much I would love to be a jockey? I could not.' In 2015, Marty Smith set out to immerse herself in the world of thoroughbred horse racing--to spend time in the stables and training grounds of the Hawke's Bay racecourse, and talk to people in every role. The project turned out to be harder--and more surprising, funny and drawn out--than she'd ever expected. Over ten years, the lives of the racecourse opened up, and the book became a portrait of a changing industry and the people within it. This is a life of hard work and constant risk, as well as community and love. And horses.

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