Horse Lit

Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit has spawned a whole bunch of new books ons horce racing. The Louisville Courier-Journal has a review of several of them, including Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Blue Bloods … and Won which received a first printing of 250,000 and which the reviewer doesn’t deem worth the trouble.