No one really notices that a fix may be in until Matt O'Connor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance. Kellmans question for Matt: Was the death of ninety-two-year-old Bernard Glockner, Chicago's oldest active bookmake...
He saw a hulking, thirtyish man who slowly looked around the office interior before settling his eyes on the trainer. The man wore a black turtleneck sweater, black jeans, tinted glasses. In ironic contrast to the size of its owner, Tenuta heard a high-pitched voice say, “Tenuta? Are you Ralph Te...
It was just after 6 a.m. Vera finished her first Pall Mall of the last eight hours as she slid her tall, lanky form behind the wheel, then immediately fired up another as she pulled out of the lot on this early Wednesday morning in Madison. Smoking was not permitted inside the giant meat packing ...
She was exhausted after her four-hour shift the previous night at the nearby Qwik Stop cash register, one of three such shifts she worked each week. She’d exercised eight horses at Heartland Downs this morning, starting at break of dawn. She’d earned $88 from those efforts, $30 from h...
Across the table, his legislative assistant Randi Rickert picked up a spoon and began idly stirring her bowl of plain yogurt. She was very thin and intended to stay that way. “Any progress with Wilgis?” she asked, referring to Langmeyer’s fellow representative, William “Wi...
