The Sport Of Kings

"Finalist"

"In The Sport Of Kings, C.E. Morgan weaves several centuries of American history into an ambitious and epic tale of a thoroughbred racehorse born to win the Triple Crown. For seven generations — ever since Samuel Forge came to Kentucky from Virginia with one slave and a Narragansett Pacer he had raised from a colt — the Forge clan has bred horses on its Kentucky farm. In the 21st century, Henry Forge and his daughter, Henrietta, set their hopes on an almost perfect filly named Hellsmouth. They hire Allmon Shaughnessy, who discovers his talent with horses while serving prison time as a teenager, to train the unruly filly. With hypnotic language, Faulknerian scope and mounting intensity, Morgan unspools dozens of stories, past and present, into a tragic saga of race and class."