Blister Jones

At Latonia, a young filly floats past a chaos of bucking two-year-olds—and Blister Jones, watching her, sees more than a pretty winner. Then he explains how a once-unknown stable boy got his unlikely name.

On a cloudless June morning, among the whitewashed stalls and tawny track, Blister reads horses as if their bloodlines and habits were written plain before him. The narrator has barely learned that “Très Jolie” means “very pretty” before Blister is telling another tale: his first horse, a racing cripple offered to anyone willing to take him away. Young, broke, and certain he knows more than the men around him, Blister risks his chance on the horse—and seeks out a champion jockey to learn what the animal can really do. In a world where a tendon, a clock, and a wager can change everything, how did the boy become Blister Jones?

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