Backyard Race Horse: The Training Manual: A Comprehensive Off-Track Program for Owners and Trainers
...This is a reference I would refer to when checking for basic racehorse/track information ..topics range from conformation, suggestions on loading, farm layout, tack, shoeing, bathing horses, medications, health conditions, allowable traffic patterns for horses working on the track, how to go about qualifying to get a trainers license, and everything in between. Using a common sense approach is also highly stressed. BACKYARD RACEHORSE is probably well worth the cost. --Washington Thoroughbred by Susan Van DykeNot every horse is born to win, but a winner can come from anywhere. That is the view of Janet DelCastillo, a trainer, who put her money on a two year old filly that had been donated to a children's home after being dismissed as a potential loser at the track. DelCastillo acquired and used her methods to make her a winner of more than $300,000.00. ...This kind of book I would have read, she said of her own work. This is the kind of book for a city girl who loves horses. ...She admits most of her projects have been losing ones and that racing horses carries great economic and physical risks. To think that you can make money doing this is like thinking you can get rich by buying a lottery ticket every week she said. Don't quit your day job. --Tampa Tribune by Elaine Morgan