A Shooting Star

While attending the Keeneland thoroughbred sales in Kentucky, a senior psychoanalyst reconnects with his youthful fervor for thoroughbred racing. Returning to California, he finds himself with re-awakened dreams but without the financial wherewithal to pursue them. A chance event in his practice leads him to an entrepreneurial veterinary-school dropout who has put together the Gerson Racing Stable, a motley crew of sixty racetrack enthusiasts and Runyonesque characters that buy and sell cla...