Ruffian by Jane Schwartz

Ruffian by Jane Schwartz

During two short seasons at the track, Ruffian was hailed as the greatest thoroughbred filly of all time. Unbeaten in her first ten starts, she shattered one record after another, dazzling crowds with both her beauty and her brilliant speed. Then tragedy struck on the afternoon of July 6, 1975. Ruffian broke down-on the lead-in the middle of a match race at Belmont Park. Later that night she had to be destroyed.

Ruffian- Burning from the Start is the story of this exceptional filly, a horse so dominating, so powerful, that writer Walter Farley once suggested she was more like the fictional legend, the Black Stallion, than any colt he had ever seen. Beginning with her earliest days in Kentucky, the book follows Ruffian at every stage of her career and through the agony of her final hours- venturing behind the scenes of the racing world and exploring the politics and personalities that came together to shape this extraordinary filly's fate.

Jane Schwartz is the author of Captured, a novel, and Ruffian: Blazing from the Start, a sports biography. She has contributed to a variety of periodicals, including The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The Blood-Horse, and the Daily Racing Form, where her piece Free Rein was featured. She is a resident of Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780345450005
ISBN 10	0345450000
Title	Ruffian
Author	Jane Schwartz
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2002-04-30
Number of pages	352
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