The Bottom Line
This book is recommended to all fans of racing. Livingston gives every fan an excellent look back over the last thirty years of racing and a great tribute to the horses she featured.
Pros
- Gorgeous photos
- Great biographical essays
- Author's love of horses shines though
Cons
- There really aren't any cons for this book
Description
- Great heart-warming stories about classy old horses who should never be forgotten.
- Livingston spent about two years traveling to horse farms across North America for this book.
- The horses are covered in alphabetical order for easier reference and also to show no favoritism.
Guide Review - Book Review: "Old Friends"
Through her words and photography (total of 125 photos throughout the book), Barbara Livingston does an excellent job accentuating the positive merits of all the aged horses presented. Some of the farms were very honored to be featured in the book, having long assumed their star horse was forgotten by the rest of the world. Included in the book are visits with Affirmed and Seattle Slew as the last remaining living Triple Crown winners shortly before their deaths, and the distaff side is well represented in champions All Along and Dahlia. In each case, she briefly describes the subject horse's racing career, including personal stories about when she saw the horse in person during that time and comments from the horse's owners or handlers.
