Black Horse Part II

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I read the first book, found it illuminating and disturbing in parts. It was a while ago now but still have some of it very clear in my mind: e.g. the recount of the grim death of Montjeu and the fairly brutal/emotionless routine disposal of the bodies of blue chip mares who had produced champions for Coolmore. There is a tinge of bitterness about the whole thing but I believed these accounts from the breeding barn and can see why there have been legal battles to suppress the book.

Maybe I’m a finnicky old thing but I did think the first book was let down somewhat by a lack of editing/proofreading. I know the guy is out on a limb producing these alone to fight a colossal entity in Coolmore, but it did come across rather amateurish and reduce his credibility at times. Often digressive and rambly onto other topics as well.

I’m on the fence about whether to get the second book. £14+ not cheap for something that threatens to be even more “man waving at cloud” – the author’s thoughts on the betting industry, drugs and so on. Thinking I’ll probably pass, as I think the author probably put all his interesting first-hand experiences into the first one, then decided to go for a ‘trilogy’ to try to cover his legal bills.

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