The Home Run Horse: Inside America’s Billion-Dollar Racehorse Industry and the High-Stakes Dreams that Fuel It

The Home Run Horse goes behind the scenes in the Thoroughbred sport, revealing a massive racehorse-production industry driven both by passion and by cold financial calculations. From the lavish estates of Bluegrass stud farms, to the elegant auction ring at Saratoga Springs, and on to the Kentucky Derby winner’s circle, The Home Run Horse follows the people who embark on the difficult quest for a champion and shows how, in pursuit of that dream, they have learned to manipulate the horse and nature.