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Peggy M. Scott died on October 15, 2023 at home with the support of her family listening to Pink Floyd. She was born in New London, Wisconsin on October 20,

"Horse" sweeps readers into the sport’s racial legacy. It also celebrates Black excellence and asks if this can be a nation where it thrives.

In "Horse", Lexington's story is revisited by Australian author Geraldine Brooks, who has carefully woven a fictional storyline around the known facts about the most influential stallion of his era.

“Horse,” by Geraldine Brooks, melds a historic tale of an enslaved Black horse trainer with a modern-day story of interracial romance.

A thoroughbred named Lexington carries the plot, connecting the lives of two Black men living nearly two centuries apart in America.

Brooks’s latest novel focuses on two young Black men, and shuttles between the present day and the 19th-century world of horse racing.