Rebecca Cassidy is a senior lecturer in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the coeditor of Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered.

Combining thorough research with an excellent writing style, this volume goes beyond such personal accounts as Jane Smiley's A Year at the Races (2004) and Nan Mooney's My Racing Heart (2002). Not about the sport of horseracing per se, this is an entertaining and enjoyable anthropological study of the relationships between humans and animals. Choice 2008 Cassidy has created an engaging study that would appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in horse racing. -- Jeff Meyer Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 [A] comprehensive and entertaining book. -- Margaret Taylor Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst. 2009

• Preface1. Histories2. The Right to Be Well Born3. The Horseman Makes the Horse4. The Centers of the World5. Stud Farm6. Auction7. Training8. Racing TodayEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

Rebecca Cassidy is a senior lecturer in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the coeditor of Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered.

Combining thorough research with an excellent writing style, this volume goes beyond such personal accounts as Jane Smiley's A Year at the Races (2004) and Nan Mooney's My Racing Heart (2002). Not about the sport of horseracing per se, this is an entertaining and enjoyable anthropological study of the relationships between humans and animals. Choice 2008 Cassidy has created an engaging study that would appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in horse racing. -- Jeff Meyer Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 [A] comprehensive and entertaining book. -- Margaret Taylor Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst. 2009

• Preface1. Histories2. The Right to Be Well Born3. The Horseman Makes the Horse4. The Centers of the World5. Stud Farm6. Auction7. Training8. Racing TodayEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

Rebecca Cassidy is a senior lecturer in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the coeditor of Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered.

Combining thorough research with an excellent writing style, this volume goes beyond such personal accounts as Jane Smiley's A Year at the Races (2004) and Nan Mooney's My Racing Heart (2002). Not about the sport of horseracing per se, this is an entertaining and enjoyable anthropological study of the relationships between humans and animals. Choice 2008 Cassidy has created an engaging study that would appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in horse racing. -- Jeff Meyer Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 [A] comprehensive and entertaining book. -- Margaret Taylor Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst. 2009

• Preface1. Histories2. The Right to Be Well Born3. The Horseman Makes the Horse4. The Centers of the World5. Stud Farm6. Auction7. Training8. Racing TodayEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex