The First Kentucky Derby
Autor Mark Shrageren Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781493073344
ISBN-10: 1493073346
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 230 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc
ISBN-10: 1493073346
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 230 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc
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Notă biografică
Mark Shrager has published some 300 articles about every aspect of horse racing in magazines such as Turf & Sport Digest, American Turf Monthly, and others. His 1974 Turf & Sport Digest article, “1,001 Surefire Ways to Lose a Horse Race,” was published in the annual Best Sports Stories anthology. He is the author of The Great Sweepstakes of 1877: A True Story of Southern Grit, Gilded Age Tycoons, and a Race That Galvanized the Nation and Diane Crump: A Horse-Racing Pioneer’s Life in the Saddle,which won the 2020 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award for the best book on Thoroughbred racing. He lives in Altadena, CA, and is a three-time Jeopardy! champion.
Cuprins
Prologue: A Word to the Reader
Preface: 1875 Was a Long Time Ago
Introduction: The Derby or the Bunbury?
Chapter 1: A Blessed Event in the Bluegrass
Chapter 2: Colonel Clark and the Birth of the Derby
Chapter 3: Three Black Jockeys, Seven Kentucky Derby Wins
Chapter 4: Inauspicious but Promising
Chapter 5: A Winner at Last
Chapter 6: The Rise and Fall of the Black Jockey in America
Chapter 7: Williamson and Lewis
Chapter 8: Aristides Versus Ten Broeck
Chapter 9: The Path to Derby Day
Chapter 10: “Go on with Him, Oliver!”
Chapter 11: Did McGrath Really Lose? A Possible Alternative
Chapter 12: A Pawn In McGrath’s Game? Part 1
Chapter 13: The Battle of the United States Hotel
Chapter 14: A Pawn in McGrath’s Game? Part 2
Chapter 15: “Keeping the Books”
Chapter 16: A Lost Season
Chapter 17: Catastrophe
Chapter 18: A Plaque in the Hall of Fame? The Case for Aristides
Chapter 19: Epilogue
Afterword: It Could Have Been Different
Acknowledgments
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface: 1875 Was a Long Time Ago
Introduction: The Derby or the Bunbury?
Chapter 1: A Blessed Event in the Bluegrass
Chapter 2: Colonel Clark and the Birth of the Derby
Chapter 3: Three Black Jockeys, Seven Kentucky Derby Wins
Chapter 4: Inauspicious but Promising
Chapter 5: A Winner at Last
Chapter 6: The Rise and Fall of the Black Jockey in America
Chapter 7: Williamson and Lewis
Chapter 8: Aristides Versus Ten Broeck
Chapter 9: The Path to Derby Day
Chapter 10: “Go on with Him, Oliver!”
Chapter 11: Did McGrath Really Lose? A Possible Alternative
Chapter 12: A Pawn In McGrath’s Game? Part 1
Chapter 13: The Battle of the United States Hotel
Chapter 14: A Pawn in McGrath’s Game? Part 2
Chapter 15: “Keeping the Books”
Chapter 16: A Lost Season
Chapter 17: Catastrophe
Chapter 18: A Plaque in the Hall of Fame? The Case for Aristides
Chapter 19: Epilogue
Afterword: It Could Have Been Different
Acknowledgments
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index