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Equine fiction is an established genre in the English juvenile literary canon. Current works in the field appeal to adolescent readers thanks to their interface between classic motifs of vintage and contemporary forms of equine narratives. Performing a close reading of selected passages in Miranda Kenneally’s Racing Savannah (2013), this paper acknowledges how this novel is a revitalization and a challenge to this pattern. Savannah, who is more gifted than her companions, is subordinate to the decisions of the junior of the household where she works. Jack Goodwin, the protagonist’s romantic lead, educated in a neocolonialist background of male jockeying, becomes Savannah’s marker of difference according to her sex and lower socioeconomic status, which lay at the root of her later racialization despite her being a white character. My analysis attempts to expose how these difficulties encountered by the protagonist to become a professional jockey articulate past and present constraints of the horse-racing ladder.

Der Antikriegsroman des Dortmunder Volksschullehrers Franz Müller-Frerich erschien 1930 innerhalb kürzester Zeit in mehreren Auflagen und ist dennoch heute vollständig vergessen. In Kriegspferd Pummelchen wird die Frontrealität der Jahre 1914–1918 aus Sicht eines Pferdes geschildert; durch die schonungslos und drastisch wiedergegebenen Kriegserlebnisse verliert der Text seine Nähe zum Kinderbuch. Bei schlechter Verpflegung und Organisation stirbt das haferfressende Kriegsgerät an schweren Verletzungen, an totaler Erschöpfung. Das Leid dieser ‚Kraftmaschinen‘ im Laboratorium der Gewalt ist unsäglich. Müller-Frerichs Roman operiert meist mit kurzen Szenen und desavouiert heroische Vorstellungen nationaler Wehrhaftigkeit, rückt Mitleid als Kategorie ins Zentrum. Die zeitgenössische Kritik äußerte sich enthusiastisch und sprach von einem Buch „mit tief in der Seele packender Kraft“, das eine „herzenstiefe Liebe zur armen, verstoßenen Kreatur“ vermittle.

Peter Christian “Paddy” Barrie was a seasoned fraudster who transferred his horse doping and horse substitution skills from British to North American racetracks in the 1920s. His thoroughbred ringers were entered in elite races to guarantee winnings for syndicates and betting rings in the Prohibition-era United States. This case study of a professional travelling criminal and the challenges he posed for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the early 1930s war on crime highlights both the importance of illegal betting to urban mobsters and the need for broader and more nuanced critiques of Depression-era organized-crime activities and alliances.

The history of the Great Game in Asia, the contest between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for control of Central Asia, is dominated by popular writers attempting to uncover the \"true\" story of Rudyard Kipling's Kim, the story of the an orphaned Anglo-Irish son of a British soldier growing up in the streets and bazaars of British India. These books, often lacking any sense of historical context or a broader political narrative, tend to forego judicious historical analysis in favour of salacious adventure stories.

Along the shore of the Danube, a cat reflects on world history and human nature. From Oppenheimer to Donne to Stalin to Ana Pauker the musings glide, but of one thing this cat is sure: the problem with humans is that they meditate and stretch too little.

Three different members of the same family passed the baton across the decades in helping care for Camp Randall Stadium, the Field House and finally the Kohl Center. Of getting from the Alumni Association's Arlie Mucks a slab of the Camp Randall bleachers when they were replaced in 1973.

A short story is presented.