In The Ghost Horse, Joe Layden tells the inspiring true tale of a
one-eyed, club-footed thoroughbred racehorse and a journeyman
trainer, Tim Snyder, who scraped together every penny he had to
purchase the broken and unwanted filly. Snyder helped the horse
overcome its deficiencies, eventually naming her in part after his
deceased wife, Lisa, the great and only love of his life - a bright
and sweet-tempered woman whose gentle demeanour seemed eerily
reflected in the horse. The trainer (and now owner) was by nature a
crusty and combative sort, the yin to his wife's yang, a racetrack
lifer not easily moved by new-age mysticism or sentiment. And yet
in those final days back in 2003, when Lisa Snyder lay in bed, her
body ravaged by cancer, she reassured her family with a weak smile.
"It's okay," she'd say. "I'll see you again. I'm coming back as a
horse." Tim Snyder did not then believe in reincarnation. But he
acknowledged the strangeness of this journey, the series of
coincidences that brought them together, and the undeniable
similarities between the horse and his late wife. And so did those
who knew the couple well, and who could now only marvel at the
story of the filly, Lisa's Booby Trap, and the down-on-his-luck
trainer who apparently had been given a new lease on life. The
Ghost Horse is a powerful horseracing story of underdogs and second
chances.
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