BOOK DESCRIPTION

A Kentucky Derby winner should not end up slaughtered. No horse should. Read what really happens…After the Finish Line.

§         Discover secrets of the horse industry you didn’t know:

§         1986 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand wound up slaughtered

§         A former harness-racing horse saved from slaughter led the funeral procession for Ronald Reagan

§         A national retirement program matches discarded horses with discarded people—inmates

§         Two slaughterhouses in Texas operated despite a state law banning horse slaughter

§         An entire industry was built around extracting the urine of pregnant mares for treating menopause

§         One dedicated woman helped pass an anti-slaughter referendum in California

About the author:

Bill Heller is a frequent contributor to Thoroughbred Times and Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred. Heller also handicaps thoroughbred racing for the Daily Gazette in Schenectady, NY. He has received nine national awards, including the 1997 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Magazine Writing on Thoroughbred Racing, the 1999 Bill Leggett Breeders’ Cup Magazine Writing Award, and the John Hervey Award for outstanding magazine writing about harness racing (three times). Heller is a member of the National Turf writer’s Association, New York Turf Writers Association and the United States Harness Writer’s Association. Heller has written seventeen other books.