Publisher's Synopsis
"Home from World War I, Ben Held decides to escape his hometown of Newport, Kentucky, and become a barnstorming race-tracker. Bonnie Dennert, his sweetheart, chooses to stay behind. Years later, they are reunited amid World War II, when Ben returns home because horse racing has been banned across America. He wants Bonnie back, and tells her of Stymie, the great horse in the stable where he works as a foreman. When the ban on racing lifts, Ben hopes for Bonnie to join him so they can watch Stymie race together. In addition to Ben's evolving world, the novel faithfully follows Stymie's real-life career. A castoff as a young racer because of his vicious temperament, Stymie endured challenging campaigns to become a beloved horse in New York, where he raced for most of his career. Stymie's modest beginnings eventually earned him the nickname as "The People's Horse." The stories in Stymie highlight his early races and his legendary battles wi
