Reflections on Luck: David Milch’s Series on Horse Racing and My Own Life Karma

I’m fascinated and maybe slightly obsessed with horses now.This is news and unexpected to me because equines had never stood out for me,with the brief exception of Mister Ed, a show that I had sporadicallywatched in my younger years. Two things did not strike me as odd back then sinceI took them for granted and as a given: one, that a horse could talk - why, ofcourse, they can! - and two, that I should be actually watching a show in whicha horse would talk.

After that, horses completely d...