Spring Reading
The racing shelf at your local bookstore is about to get more crowded as several new books on the sport are published this spring. Jockey Jerry Bailey’s autobiography, “Against the Odds,” will be out in April and promises to detail “the making of both a man and a champion.” Readers who haven’t had enough of the Smarty Jones story will want to pick up “Smarty Jones: The Horse that Captured America’s Heart,” by Jay Acton. Marvin Drager writes about horses that captured more than the country’s heart in “The Most Glorious Crown: The Story of America’s Triple Crown Thoroughbreds from Sir Barton to Affirmed.” For those looking for an in-depth tour of racing, T.A. Landers offers a guide to the sport’s in and outs in “Insider’s Guide to Horseracing,” while Frank Scatoni gives readers “Six Secrets of Successful Bettors,” and Ted McClelland profiles the handicappers and track habitues he met over the course of a year in “Horseplayers: Life at the Track.”
