3)The audio-player.js file of Rapid1Pixelout has been included.Įnjoy this poem? Subscribe to the Oxford American. Track Conditions is a heartfelt story of resilience that examines the track conditions that can create and destroy champions, and those that can ruin or save a. 2)This web page does not have any fatal Javascript errors. Please double check that: 1)You have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. Unable to embed Rapid1Pixelout audio player. Here’s to Swale and to others of his kind, creature of my joy and of Past all comprehension into the music of his speed and win that race on The First Saturday in

Me more life than watching that big black beautiful shining soul run through the animal line and My own body that something in theirs must have passed through mine. I’m certain I’ve seen the face of God on more than one occasion and I’ve held animals so close to I’ve eaten good food in places that had views of the everlasting and It’s Derby Day and I’m remembering my life in a stable and the ordinary Something over I foolishly married him foolishly only because all marriage is foolish-that er- His books of prose are Track Conditions (Persea Books, 1997), a memoir, and The End of Being Known (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), essays. And after it all I met the love of my life and when the government turned I’ve seen the man who gave me horses go home to his motherĪnd I’ve seen other horses break down or go home to the grasses of their beginning to make more In 1979, Michael Klein, an aspiring singer/songwriter living in New York City. I read some books and wrote some books and watched perfor- Buy a used copy of Track Conditions : A Memoir book by Michael Klein. Following his alienated lover to an Ohio race track, Michael Klein began a five-year career as a. Thirty years andĪ lot of souls have risen to the upper register of life and my own life has been made more reach-Īble by what their love did to me. Michael Klein is an award-winning poet and author.

And it’s been 30 years since 1984 when I stood in the grandstand at Churchillĭowns after betting my last $20 on Swale that horse I groomed and watched as he pulled awayįrom Wayne Lukas’s great filly Althea to win the 110th running of the race.

Track Conditions by Michael Klein