A banker and racehorse take a giant leap
In a blinding snowstorm, Leah Lang-Gluscic was clear-eyed and confident as she drove to an Illinois racetrack to place the bet of a lifetime. The onetime investment banker who’d parlayed a degree from Wharton Business School into a two-year career in Washington, D.C., kept her hands steady on the wheel as she piloted her truck through the blizzard, excited to turn her life around. Deciding to give up banking to focus full-time on a career with horses, she approached the small fairground in Martinsville, Ill., with very low expectations that the big bay she’d seen advertised by CANTER Illinois would […]