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Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack
Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack
Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack
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Stable Views offers an inside look at the thoroughbred racing industry through the words and perspectives of those who labor within its stables. In more than fourteen years of field research, Ellen E. McHale has traveled throughout the Eastern Seaboard, Kentucky, and Louisiana to gather oral narratives from those most intimately involved with racing: the stable workers, exercise riders, and horse trainers who form the backbone of the industry. She interviewed workers at Saratoga, Belmont, Tampa Bay Downs, Keeneland, the Evangeline Training Center in Louisiana, and the Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida.

Workers within all sectors of the thoroughbred world have long histories of involvement in the racing industry, with many individuals shifting occupational roles throughout their lifetimes. The thoroughbred racetrack operates as a multicultural workplace that relies upon apprenticeship and mentoring. Many workers speak to the history, the joys, the hardships, and the miracles of horse racing along with the changes that they have experienced through their long careers. Included in the book are discussions about luck, the occupational language of the racetrack, race and gender, and recent changes in the industry, all in the words and voices of the stable workers.

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Release dateOct 20, 2015
ISBN9781496803696
Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack
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Ellen E. McHale

Ellen E. McHale is executive director of the New York Folklore Society and adjunct lecturer at Utica College. She is author of Stable Views: Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack and coeditor (with Elizabeth Tucker) of New York State Folklife Reader: Diverse Voices, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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