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When Richard Linihan was a boy, his mother dreamt that a horse bit her on the back of the neck. She couldn’t shake the fear of it, the night terror that began to reoccur, and she never allowed her son to spend time around those animals.

Fast-forward to 1986, two years after Oklahoma voters approved pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing. Linihan bought and checked out books from the library, watched all the famous horse-racing movies, and borrowed from the expertise of locals who bred horses or hung around the tracks, mostly because the sports editor of the <em>Tulsa Tribune</em> had asked him if he could cover what was becoming a hot beat.

<a href="http://thislandpress.com/09/30/2011/a-day-at-the-races/" target="_blank">Read the rest of the story at This Land Press</a>. 
