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In ‘Kick the Latch,’ the Iowa author reconstructs a hard, wild and tender life among horses
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In ‘Kick the Latch,’ the Iowa author reconstructs a hard, wild and tender life among horses
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Son Of FlickaCoral Cup, 2012 It's the sign of a satisfying plot when a tale appears under the result in the Racing Post that begins, "the trainer said
This article was first published in the Racing Post on July 6, 2013 During the first of Jonjo O'Neill's remarkable comebacks it was his leg he and the doctors were trying to save. During the second, in 1986, six years after the freak accident at Bangor that snapped his right leg so brutally it felt "just like a bag of gravel", the stakes were somewhat higher. Cancer had struck. This time they were trying to save O'Neill's life. The darkness of those storm clouds of yesteryear should not be too easily lost in the sunshine of O'Neill's smile. The 61-year-old's beaming face under the top hat wat...