The track: A day in the life of Belmont Park

Bill Surface has fashioned more than a dramatic chronicle or an evocative and telling portrait. The Track is a rich repository of anecdote history and backstretch information that makes insiders of all its readers. Her is the story of jockey Ron Turcotte and the champion mare he taught to win--against her will; of trainer Allen Jerkens and what he does to turn a crippled horse into a winner; of the nations winningest owner of Thoroughbreds Sigmund Sommer and how he beats the races. And here are the losers as well as the the trainer who hasnt had a winner in eight years; the high-bred colt that wont run; the would-be tout who follows wealthy owners to the betting windows in the hope of getting a hot tip. All are real and Bill Surface writes of them with an insight humor and compassion.