Mares, Foals & Ferraris: Recollections of a Farmer in the Sport of Kings

Mares, Foals and Ferraris is a serialization of humor columns first penned in the 1980's for The Washington Thoroughbred magazine. The book represents some two-decades of raising Thoroughbreds for the track - another four years return to academics. But really, the saga began with a radical non-conformist during the Vietnam years, a young man who simply wanted to trade his battered peace sign for a shovel. He was thinking turnips, but he got racehorses. So the book also has a fair share of history and world politics mixed in - more importantly perhaps, the folly of trying to date a young woman with a horse. Uh, no. Can't say I figured that one out.
More importantly though is that this book tries to explain why so many children, born of wars and generations of violence, migrate to the comfort and safety of animals; particularly to the world of horses. The road back to trust is a long and harrowing journey. Some kids make it, some don't. But if given the chance, the horse will break the trail, and just maybe, help to heal the unsure heart.

He spent his first thirty years working as a farrier and farm manager and about fifteen years as an itinerant journalist, wandering most of the world's habitable continents and questionable bars. He holds a degree in history and sometimes attempts to further confuse the world's problems at Histryonics.blogspot.com. His early years were spent in the urban rainforests of Seattle, though currently he hangs out in Port Orford, Oregon. But not for long. His second book will be out in October of 2013. Details at Horsetrionics.blogspot.com.