Jane Schwartz
Auteur van Ruffian: Burning from the Start
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I remember watching Ruffian's final race and how I gasped. This is a well-written tale of one of the best fillies ever to race.
Even though I was a little girl when her tragedy occurred, & knew what the outcome would be before I ever read it, this was an amazing book. It made me laugh, it made me cry. The photos were a wonderful memory to have of this filly who gave her heart to her sport, & who's broken life touched America's horse lovers & Thoroughbred lovers around the world. Rest In Peace brave girl. You were a star that burned out way too soon.
Very detailed, good pacing throughout the book. Describes the life of the great racing filly Ruffian from her birth (and before) to the Great Match Race in which she broke down.
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The timeline bounces all over the place, from the night before the match race in which she sustained fatal injuries, back to her birth, wandering around the realities of breeding, rearing, and early schooling, back to the early morning of the race, off into histories of the men who worked with her, dropping in on early track victories, off to outline the backstory of her track opponents, and on and on and on for nearly 300 pages. The result is a nearly incoherent mess, which pulls together only in the last few heartbreaking pages as Ruffian’s on-track breakdown and the valiant but failed battle to save her life play out.
Racing fans who remember the filly’s career still have a bad case of the what-ifs regarding this superstar whose career was cut short so disastrously, but readers seeking to understand just what made her so special will be disappointed.… (meer)