Death of a Racehorse by W.C. Heinz

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during this morning's replay, Steve mentioned W. C. Heinz 1949 "Death of a Racehorse." I'd not known about it and found a PDF of it on Bloodhorse. http://www.bloodhorse.com/pdf/Deatho...orse_Heinz.pdf Below is a copy/paste from the Feb. 2008 obit on Heinz. He was an important journalist.
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W. C. Heinz, 93, Writing Craftsman, Dies

W. C. Heinz, the sports columnist, war correspondent, magazine writer and novelist who was considered one of the finest journalistic stylists of his era, died Wednesday in Bennington, Vt. He was 93.

W. C. Heinz, in 2002, put a personal stamp on sports articles and war correspondence.

From the 1940s to the 1960s, Mr. Heinz was among America’s foremost sports journalists, but his writing ranged beyond the sporting world. His contemporaries included Red Smith, A. J. Liebling, John Lardner, Grantland Rice and Jimmy Cannon. A colleague at The New York Sun, Frank Graham, was quoted in a Sports Illustrated profile of Mr. Heinz as having said, “At his best, he’s better than any of us.”

Mr. Heinz placed his personal stamp on his descriptive writing, foreshadowing a changing style in journalism.