Ted McClelland's "Horseplayers"

Formerly a staff writer for the Chicago Reader, Ted McClelland's stories and essays have been published in Salon, Utne, Mother Jones, the Chicago Tribune, Slate, and Potomac Review.He applied the "Page 99 Test" to his book, Horseplayers: Life at the Track, and reported the following: There is not a lot of action on page 99, but there is a lot of attitude. It’s very revealing of the racetrack