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Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legend ReviewSuppose you are a young boy in ancient Rome. Suppose your father is a gladiator, the preeminent gladiator of his time, known and adulated everywhere you and he go. His steely nerve, his unwavering sublimation of all creature comforts to the task or winning, his stoic self discipline, the sublime artistry with which he practices his craft - all these things distinguish him from his fellow gladiators, render him much larger than life in your eyes, and the eyes of the whole world.
In his relationship to you, though, it comes naturally to him to treat you as his equal. You are his friend, his partner, even though you are only 12, 14, 16 years old. One day you will inherit his heroic mantle. He is gently preparing you. You show much promise. Others look on, understanding this will happen. It is spoken of openly.
But you see and nurse him through the terrible injuries which are part and parcel of the gladiator's life. You see the strains the long separations which being a gladiator necessitates put on family life. You see his health waning from it all. Because you are a thoughtful person, you see that, however glorious a life his may be, it is a life sacrificed...sacrificed to something you are not sure you understand. And, inside, you are torn and tormented.
Patrick Smithwick is the only son of legendary steeplechase jockey Paddy Smithwick, who died in 1973 at age 46. RACING MY FATHER is, on its broadest level, a story of the author's coming to grips with and resolving such torments. But on another level it is an engrossing portrayal of the life of steeplechase jockeys and the world they inhabit, a world aptly described by a critic on the book's dust jacket as Faulknerian. It can be read with pleasure on either level. Taken together, it is a masterpiece.
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