A Dead-Game Sport
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Dayton Shannon had made two promises. One was too protect his little brother and the other was to earn enough money to get to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Both seemed unattainable when his abusive father arbitrarily shipped him off to his uncle in Lexington, Kentucky to learn the horse trade. He soon discovered the horse trade was in fact bookmaking and he needed a sheet writer. He was a quick study and soon caught the eye of a famous Kentucky plunger who offered him a job as a commissioner. It wasn't long before he was rubbing elbows with the rich and famous at Coney Island where the difference between being rich and desperately poor was decided by a field of horses. Here he witnessed some of horse racing’s most celebrated clashes, both human and equine and in the process learned the value of money, honor and friendship.
Based on the lives of Charles Riley Grannan and George “Pittsburgh Phil” Smith.
Proofed August 2014
WL Racherbaumer
Born Elmhurst, IllinoisWL Racherbaumer began writing late in life.While in his twenties, he was a musician and a journalist in the U.S.Navy. Returning to school, he earned a degree in communication after which he was an editor for a music magazine and a disc jockey. He then went into retail, which he found wanting, leading him to take a job as a reading specialist. Two decades later, he retired as a post-secondary Educational Psychologist. The one constant throughout his diverse employment was his passion for the sport of horse racing. It began in 1955 when he witnessed Nashua beat Swaps at Washington Park in Chicago. Those sixty years of experience are the mortar that built the foundation for his narrative.
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