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Inspired by the Henry Taylor poem of the same name, Flying Change
is the true story of a man changing strides and leaving the
comforts and security of middle-age life to reenter the hazardous
and highly competitive world of steeplechasing. After a youthful
career begun under the tutelage of his father, legendary
steeplechase jockey A. P. "Paddy" Smithwick, he gave up riding to
become a newspaper editor, a Chesapeake Bay waterman, a teacher of
English and literature, and a father. But the one-time jockey could
not leave the sport he so loved. At forty-six, he pushed himself
back into shape for competitive racing and set about trying to find
a horse to ride in the most challenging of timber races, the
Maryland Hunt Cup.
From the rolling hills of Maryland horse country, Smithwick
issues a movingly written call to those of us trapped in
increasingly sedentary, digital lives to get up and go outdoors and
let the senses play, to feel a cold rain on your shoulders and sit
in front of a warm fire, to smell hay and grass and live in the
beauty of spring dawns and brilliant autumn sunsets.
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