An Englishman in Texas is a memoir by Ron Kenney, an English jockey who came to the United States in 1960.
The story follows Kenney through his coming of age to his coming to.
He\'d been turned away by the foreman at the coal mine because he was too small.
He goes on to describe how, with no knowledge of horses, he was sent four hundred miles from home at 14 years of age to apprentice as a jockey.
His autobiographical account begins with his childhood in the northeast of England during WWII.
An Englishman in Texas is a memoir by Ron Kenney, an English jockey who came to the United States in 1960