{"product_id":"9780982304945","title":"Flying Change: A Year of Racing and Family and Steeplechasing","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by the Henry Taylor poem of the same name, Flying Change is the true story of a man changing strides and leaving the comforts and security of middle-age life to reenter the hazardous and highly competitive world of steeplechasing.  After a yourthful career begun under the tutelage of his father, legendary steeplechase jockey A.P. Paddy Smithwick, he gave up riding to become a newspaper editor, a Chesapeake Bay waterman, a teacher of English and literature, and a father.  But the one-time jockey could not leave the sport he so loved.  At forty-six, he pushed himself back into shape for competitive racing and set about trying to find a horse to ride in the most challenging of timer races, the Maryland Hunt Cup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the rolling hills of Maryland horse country, Smithwick issues a movingly written call to those of us trapped in increasingly sedentary, digital lives to get up and go outdoors and let the senses play, to feel a cold rain on your shoulders and sit in front of a warm fire, to smell hay and grass and live in the beauty of spring dawns and brilliant autumn sunsets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chesapeake Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034704396528,"sku":"9780982304945","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982304945_p0.jpg?v=1763891587","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982304945","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}