Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. (Laura Hillenbrand)

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

Laura Hillenbrand

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