The book is devoted to the passion for horse racing and gathers forty splendid shots by masters of contemporary photography, from Henri Cartier-Bresson to William Klein, from Lisette Model to Andreas Gursky. Each tells in his or her own style the atmosphere, the tension and the protagonists of the racecourses, and above all shows the faces and gestures of the spectators who suffer and live every moment of the races from the stands. The images are paired with a selection of quotations from Ovid to Marco Polo, Flaubert, Tolstoy, D’Annunzio and Joyce.