Tales from the Triple Crown

Tales from the Triple Crown
Author: Steve Haskin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2023-11-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493078429

In Tales from the Triple Crown, award-winning racing writer Steve Haskin takes readers behind the scenes to introduce them to the trainers, jockeys, and horses seeking the world’s most elusive sports prize. Feel the keen disappointment of trainer Bud Delp after Spectacular Bid loses his Triple Crown bid because of a stray safety pin. Witness Angel Cordero’s frustration after winning the Kentucky Derby aboard Spend a Buck, only to encounter a series of misadventures on his way home. Mourn the untimely loss of Barbaro in a Preakness that shook the racing world. Their stories are among the twenty-four—including three that are new to this paperback edition—that bring a new dimension to the repertoire of Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes reporting. Horse racing is no stranger to triumph and tragedy, and in Tales from the Triple Crown Haskin shares both the adrenaline charge of victory and the disappointment of close losses. Haskin’s personal involvement, keen eye for a good story, and engaging writing style make readers feel like they are living the moments with him.

Affirmed

Affirmed
Author: Lou Sahadi
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011-03-29
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0312628080

The descendent of Man o' War and War Admiral, Affirmed won all three stages of the Triple Crown in 1978. Sahadi draws on interviews with jockey Steve Cauthen, the family of owner Louis Wolfson, and many more to tell the story of this courageous horse.

Sheisty

Sheisty
Author: T.N. Baker
Publisher: Urban Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1622864301

Epiphany Wright, Keisha Moore, and Shana Scott spent their teenage years as best friends in the hood of south side Jamaica, Queens. As adults, their friendship is put to the test when envy, built-up animosity, hidden betrayal, and the bad boys in their lives cause more havoc. Every day becomes a struggle to keep it tight. With all that's riding against them when drastic situations occur, will these girls be down for one another, or be just plain Sheisty?

Secretariat

Secretariat
Author: William Nack
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1401396216

""Secretariat" is an elegantly crafted, exhilarating tale of speed and power, grace and greatness, told with such immediacy that the reader is lost in the rush of horses and the clatter and ring of the grandstand." --Laura Hillenbrand, bestselling author of "Seabiscuit" Updated with a new preface by the author In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown. The only horse to ever grace the covers of "Time," "Newsweek," and "Sports Illustrated" in the same week, he also still holds the record for the fastest times in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. He was also the only non-human chosen as one of ESPN's "50 Greatest Athletes of the Century." The tale of "Big Red" is an enduring and inspiring classic, more than thirty years after its initial publication.

The Set Up

The Set Up
Author: Mallori McNeal
Publisher: Vickie Stringer Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780979951701

Things have been so mixed up in Amina's life for so long, and all she wants is to put the pieces back together and be complete.

American Classic Pedigrees (1914-2002)

American Classic Pedigrees (1914-2002)
Author: Avalyn Hunter
Publisher: Eclipse Press
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2003
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9781581500950

In a monumental and important work for the Thoroughbred industry, author and pedigree researcher Avalyn Hunter provides extensive pedigree analysis of every American classic race winner from 1914 through 2002.

The Complete Encyclopedia of Horse Racing

The Complete Encyclopedia of Horse Racing
Author: Bill Mooney
Publisher: Carlton Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781780978215

An authoritative and comprehensive illustrated work of reference, which tells the story of the "sport of kings" from its earliest inception to the present day.

The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes

The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes
Author: Richard Sowers
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786476982

This is the definitive history of thoroughbred racing's three premier events, which have never before been explored in such detail. This book gives the history of America's classic races from the inaugural Belmont Stakes in 1867 through 2013, identifying which equine participants were truly worthy of lasting acclaim and which were one-hit wonders. Perhaps even more compelling are the stories of the men and women who rode, trained, owned, or bred classic winners, including their exploits on the turf and their triumphs and failures in arenas far removed from horse racing.

Better Lucky Than Good

Better Lucky Than Good
Author: Sylvia Arnett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Horse racing
ISBN: 9780991476558

Churchill Downs is the epicenter of Kentucky's equine heritage and the most storied racetrack in the world. More than a thousand workers come to the backside of Churchill Downs on any given day during a meet. Before sunrise, seven days a week, stable hands, hot walkers, grooms, outriders, jockeys, and more tend to the well-being of the horses and the track. Most will never stand in the Winner's Circle. There could be no Kentucky Derby without their contributions.Better Lucky Than Good is the most caring, in-depth look into the lives and stories of equine workers ever published--and it was written by the people who live and work on the backside of Churchill Downs. The book's 32 authors include grooms, hot walkers, exercise riders, a clocker, an outrider, assistant trainers, a jockey, a starting gate crew member, a pony person, a horticulturist, a silks seamstress, shedrow foremen, a tack and saddle man, a security guard, a horse tattooer, trainers, an alcohol and drug abuse counselor, a farm manager, a chaplaincy associate, and many more. "Every person I know who has ever 'written a horse book,' or worked extensively as a journalist covering the world of the track, has at some point had a version of this thought: If somebody would just do a good oral history, interviewing the people who actually work with the horses--the grooms and riders and ferriers and assistant trainers, the folks on the "backside"--it would be worth 10,000 pages of even the best literary description of the sport. Now the Louisville Story Program has done this, and done it beautifully. It's no exaggeration to say that this book has needed to exist for 200 years."--John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead and Blood Horses

Affirmed and Alydar

Affirmed and Alydar
Author: Timothy T. Capps
Publisher: Thoroughbred Legends (Unnumber
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781581501544

"During the Triple Crown season of 1978, two chestnut colts captured the public's imagination like no rivals before or since. Affirmed and Alydar battled head to head in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes. Affirmed claimed the Triple Crown, but Alydar tested him to the limits each time. To tell one's story is to tell the other's, so closely intertwined are the lives of Affirmed and Alydar. Author Timothy T. Capps, who witnessed many of the Affirmed-Alydar races, chronicles the early years, first encounters, and epic clashes of these two titans of horse racing."--Page 4 of cover