6/19/2023 0 Comments Track Conditions by Michael Klein![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. And he revisits his past: his step-father introducing him to gambling and sex his mother's sudden death. He begins to have a recurring dream, strangely prophetic: a horse appearing as Richard disappears. "The race track put me in a kind of awe.It was a world inside a world.a labyrinth of luck, into and out of which the horses I walked every day were leading me." Among dissolute hired hands, in shedrows and tack rooms where men who care for horses also have sex, and in smoky after-hours bars, Klein tries to stop drinking, but can't he tries to stay with Richard, but can't. ![]() At the 110th running of the Kentucky Derby, where he was groom to the winning horse, Klein was led from the winner's circle into the center of a tragic mystery, and then into a new life. When his lover, Richard, left him to work on a race track, Klein followed, and so began his extraordinary five-year sojourn on tracks in Ohio, New York, Florida, and finally Kentucky. ![]() In 1979, Michael Klein, an aspiring singer/songwriter living in New York City, was broke, friendless, and drinking too much. ![]()
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