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Copyright © 2016 by C. E. Morgan

Map copyright © 2016 by Jeffrey L. Ward

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First edition, 2016

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:

“How to Identify a Thoroughbred” from The Jockey Club Registry, reprinted with permission of The Jockey Club. Copyright © 2016 The Jockey Club. Secretariat’s measurements from the Daily Racing Form copyright © 2016 by Daily Racing Form, LLC. Reprinted with permission of the copyright owner.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Morgan, C. E., 1976– author.

Title: The sport of kings / C. E. Morgan.

Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015038512 | ISBN 9780374281083 (hardback) | ISBN 9780374715175 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Families—Kentucky—Fiction. | Horses—Breeding—Fiction. | Horse racing—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary.

Classification: LCC PS3613.O73 S68 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015038512

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