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Gr 7 Up—Neri's graphic novel biography of his cousin Gail Ruffu mixes true crime and legal drama with horse racing and animal activism. When "horse whisperer" Ruffu met Urgent Envoy, she felt a deep connection. Teaming up with Bud Clayton and his horse racing syndicate, she invested in the horse as a co-owner and trainer. On Christmas Eve the next year, in 2004, Ruffu stole Urgent Envoy to keep him from racing to death after he developed a hairline shin fracture. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

On Christmas Eve 2004, Gail Ruffu tiptoed into the Hollywood Park Racetrack with one goal in mind: to horse-nap Urgent Envoy, an injured thoroughbred. "Most folk are home asleep, dreaming of Santa...Me? I'll be lucky if I don't end up in jail." It's a whiz-bang attention-grabber of a start to Neri's comics-format "second-hand memoir" about his cousin. The former trainer and twenty-percent owner of Urgent Envoy had recently learned that...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Neri's comics-format "second-hand memoir" is about his cousin Gail Ruffu, a former horse trainer who horse-napped thoroughbred Urgent Envoy to rescue him from rac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More