![]() ![]() As Jarret forms a bond with Lexington and helps transform him from playful colt to record-breaking athlete, the rumblings of civil war begin reverberating across America. In 1850 Kentucky, Jarret, an enslaved groom, witnesses the birth of a foal with four white feet boy and horse are later captured in a painting by artist Thomas J Scott. ![]() In present-day Washington, DC, PhD student Theo rescues the abandoned artwork from a kerbside his interest in its provenance sharpens when he meets Jess, a Smithsonian scientist who’s discovered Lexington’s articulated skeleton stored in a museum attic. One such painting is the novel’s narrative linchpin, anchoring the multiple timelines that dramatise Lexington’s life and legacy. Her latest book is based on the true story of Lexington, America’s greatest racehorse-a beast so fleet-footed that he inspired the invention of the mass-produced stopwatch and became the subject of several paintings. Decades after covering horse racing as a cadet reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has returned to the track. ![]()
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