Summary

In Chapter 11, jockeys and owners gathered at Two-Tie’s house for an all night card game. They talk about Biggy, Joe Dale’s son, who was arrested after he got caught with a carload of heaters on the grounds of the racetrack. They laughed about how Biggy wasn’t a good choice for a groom after he had come after a horse with a loaded gun. They gossip that Joe Dale is making Deucey take the horse, named Little Spinoza, with which Biggy had so much trouble. Joe Dale Bigg had paid twenty-thousand dollars for the horse but it had turned out to be a bum horse. Deucey joined the game. She told them she and Biggs had not come to an agreement about Spinoza but that she didn’t think he was crazy. She told the men that she believed Joe...