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14 March 2013

Reviewed: Blood Horses – Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Days at the races.

By Jon Day

Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Yellow Jersey Press, 272pp, £12.99

Hippophagy has always had a bad rep but this hasn’t prevented the occasional modest proposal promoting the consumption of horseflesh. As John Jeremiah Sullivan writes in Blood Horses:

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