Welcome to the web site of Milt Toby
author of "Dancer's Image:
The Forgotten Story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby"
Dancer's Image
Available now from The History Press
At the head of the stretch, riding one of the favorites in the most important horse race in the world, jockey Bobby Ussery dropped his whip.
It was an accident, one of those unfortunate things that just happen sometimes, but it could not have come at a worse point in the race for Ussery. The veteran jockey had hustled Dancer's Image up from dead last in the field of 14, weaving through horses on the final turn like the legendary "Crazy Legs" Hirsch. When a hole opened up on the rail, Ussery cut to the inside toward clear running room. That was when the stick fell from his grasp. ( read more... )
Milt Toby is an author, photographer, attorney, and world traveler who works from his home in Georgetown, Kentucky. Milt has written professionally for some 35 years: on the editorial staff of The Blood-Horse magazine (where he covered Thoroughbred racing in the United States, England, Panama, and Japan); a six-year stint as a freelance photojournalist living in China, Costa Rica, and Colombia (where his clients included Soldier of Fortune); and more recently as a frequent contributor of articles to The Horse magazine. He also is the author of five books about Thoroughbred racing and equine law, plus award-winning short fiction. Milt represented Death Row inmates for a number of years and he maintains a long-standing interest in Jack the Ripper (the subject of his first novel) and other serial killers. He is a Contributing Editor for The Big Thrill, the newsletter of International Thriller Writers, and serves as Chair of the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Contracts Committee.
Milt is an active presenter at national and regional conferences and workshops. He has discussed the vagaries of forensic evidence with mystery writers, copyright issues with magazine publishers and graphic artists, publishing contracts, criminal law, and the death penalty. In his spare time he works as a golf rules official.
Milt also writes a blog on equine law—“Horses and the Law”—at TheHorse.com and a monthly column for the Paint Horse Journal.
News:
Read Milt's interviews with award-winning Irish crime writer Ken Bruen and thriller authors L. J. Sellers, Greg Lamberson, and Neil Russell.