It Comes Up Mud

The Great Racing Read: Jeremy Brummitt

It Comes Up Mud (Damon Runyon), Educated Evans (Edgar Wallace) and Neck or Nothing (John Welcome) It Comes Up Mud has a blend of characters and emotions familiar to most racetrackers. It should be on the undergraduate syllabus for both English and Psychology. I read it when I was young and it left me with a healthy distrust of women who neither bet, nor own a horse, and a lifelong affection for horses who do not let you down when the going turns soft. I also find the Educated Evans...

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