Death of a Racehorse
An American Story
$27.49
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2026
Summary
Named one of Financial Times’s Best Books of 2025
The inside story of the crisis within the country’s most classic sport—horseracing—and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game.
Every year, hundreds of horses die on the racetrack. Why?
In this deeply reported and propulsive narrative, CNN reporter Katie Bo Lillis shows how two high-profile cases lay bare the ills facing the sport: the abrupt, industry-rocki…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781668017029 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1668017024 |
| Author: | Katie Bo Lillis |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 279g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Katie Bo Lillis
Katie Bo Lillis is a CNN senior reporter covering intelligence and national security. Prior to her role at CNN, she worked for Atlantic Media traveling the Middle East, covering America’s wars. But she was raised in the saddle in rural Virginia, and her first love was thoroughbred horse racing. She now lives on a farmette with a small barn in northern Virginia with her husband and son.
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