Native Dancer: The Grey Ghost: Hero of a Golden Age by John EisenbergMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
After reading a few books in the past few years that delved into the effect of television broadcasting of baseball and football, it was interesting to read a similar perspective on television’s impact on horseracing as a subtopic of this race horse biography. This is the second book I’ve read on Native Dancer, having read Eva Jolene Boyd’s volume in the Thoroughbred Legends series. Boyd was a good short read. Eisenberg’s book is longer, and provides many more side stories. You get more here on the rich race horse owner/breeder Vanderbilt, who comes across as a guy meaning well and generally doing well by his horses as well as the racing industry. A solid work on an outstanding race horse.
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