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Gold Rush: How Mr. Prospector Became Racing's Billion Dollar Sire

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224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2007

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Avalyn Hunter

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January 6, 2014
Very informative, but very list-heavy/textbook-like Hunter's Northern Dancer book.
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December 9, 2016
I was excited to see a book finally came out about Mr. Prospector. If any horse ever deserved to be the star of a hardback non-fiction book, it's him. In my mind, he was the second most influential Thoroughbred stallion in the latter half of the twentieth century (and the first decade of the 21st.) That and he just seemed to be a nice guy. Here he is:

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However, this is not the book on Mr. Prospector that I was hoping for. This mostly concentrates on his short racing career and the success (or not) of various offspring and grandfoals. The last two-thirds of the book make for pretty dry reading aimed only at people within thoroughbred horse racing and not for the average horse lover (like me.)

Horses here are pretty much just means to make money and names on lists. Considering the subtitle, I had hoped it would detail how Mr. Prospector was cared for. How much did he eat? Was he ridden at all after he retired from the track? Did he have any special care that differed from other thoroughbred stallions? These are questions left unanswered. Not even an advertisement from when Mr. Prospector was standing at stud is included.

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And then there are the typos. I'm no horse expert, but I'm fairly sure there are only two sexes in horses (three if you count geldings as another sex.) But two horses were listed as "d". Now, I know "f" stands for filly, "g" for gelding and "c" for colt BUT WHAT THE HELL IS D??? Dunno???

One horse in the seemingly endless lists had a blank space in the color column. Wow -- a completely colorless horse. Why did this not make the world's news headlines?

Some lovely photos in here, though.



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