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Stud - Adventures in Breeding by Kevin ConleyISBN-13: 9781582341842
ISBN-10: 1582341842
Publication Date: 3/26/2002
stated First Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Hardcover
6.45 x 9.5 inches, 213 pages
The most expensive thirty seconds in sports. — Every year, on Valentine's Day, the great Thoroughbred farms open their breeding sheds and begin their primary business. For the next one hundred and fifty days, the cries of stallions and the vigorous encouragement of their handlers echo through breeding country, from the gentle hills of Kentucky to the rich valleys of California.
First appearing as an article in The New Yorker, Stud takes you into this strange and seductive world. We move from Lexington's Overbrook Farm, where the world's leading sire, Storm Cat, a lightly raced eighteen-year-old, brings in around thirty million dollars a year; to the auction halls, where sheiks and bookies (known more casually as the Doobie Brothers and the Boys) bid millions for Storm Cat's well-bred offspring. We… Read More
