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Love affair with a racetrack

By William Nack
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

  Editor's Note: Excerpted with permission from "Ruffian" by William Nack. Copyright © 2007 by William Nack. Reprinted by permission of ESPN Books. In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain. -- T.S. Eliot In the end, beyond all the screams and cries and the lifting of that ominous screen, at the center of all the clamor and the chaos and that scent of panic curling upward in the tremulous air, you ...

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