Flying Change: A Year of Racing and Family and Steeplechasing - Tapa dura

Reseña del editor

Inspired by the Henry Taylor poem of the same name, Flying Change is the true story of a man changing strides and leaving the comforts and security of middle-age life to reenter the hazardous and highly competitive world of steeplechasing. After a yourthful career begun under the tutelage of his father, legendary steeplechase jockey A.P. Paddy Smithwick, he gave up riding to become a newspaper editor, a Chesapeake Bay waterman, a teacher of English and literature, and a father. But the one-time jockey could not leave the sport he so loved. At forty-six, he pushed himself back into shape for competitive racing and set about trying to find a horse to ride in the most challenging of timer races, the Maryland Hunt Cup.<>From the rolling hills of Maryland horse country, Smithwick issues a movingly written call to those of us trapped in increasingly sedentary, digital lives to get up and go outdoors and let the senses play, to feel a cold rain on your shoulders and sit in front of a warm fire, to smell hay and grass and live in the beauty of spring dawns and brilliant autumn sunsets.

Biografía del autor

Patrick Smithwick has been working with horses all of his life. As a youth he began riding for his father, A. P. "Paddy" Smithwick, the legendary steeplechase jockey. He worked his way through college by exercising thoroughbreds and riding steeplechase races at major East Coast racetracks and riding at hunt meets such as

the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Grand National. His earlier book, Racing My Father, is an exploration of the realities inside the fast-paced world of American racing. Today he lives with his wife Ansley on the horse farm where he was raised in Monkton, Maryland.