Van Deren finds it difficult to pack for races, read maps or follow directions along a course.
Cecil's roll call of winners at the highest level in Group One races reads like a who's who of equine champions.
"Darwinism provided Hitler with a scientific rationale for his perverted design to exterminate certain races," reads this section of the museum, dedicated to explaining the "consequences of evolutionary thinking".
As one Amazon reviewer explained, "Though it makes no difference to the story, it was important to me as a child reading this book 25 years ago to see a kid that looked like me in a book where race was not the focus of the plot, and is important to children of any race reading it today".
He turned to gardening, cricket, horse-racing, reading, and crossword puzzles.
In the last days of the race, reading Michael Sokolove's "second return to Levittown" article on November 9 for the New York Times "Week in Review," and two weeks before having read Matt Bai's cover story on Obama and the working-class vote for the October 15 New York Times Sunday magazine, I began to grasp the significance of the loss for a wider audience of John Mullane's story.
The chart of his race read simply, "Flip Sal went lame and was pulled up".
The list of ills facing California horse racing reads like the chart of a patient in intensive care.
A FIA statement following the race read: "We are awaiting a full report from the clerk of the course in order to determine the circumstances surrounding this incident".
But the very next morning, in a dispute with a cousin over sugar, essential to making home brew, he died of a gunshot wound through the heart at the age of 21. "When not racing," read an impish obituary in The Atlanta Journal, "Mr. Seay divided his time between Dawsonville and Atlanta".
