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Summary: A 21st Century National Velvet
Review: Joe Drape takes the reader to the top of the horse racing field with clarity and tight prose worthy of a master storyteller.Insightful behind the scenes coverage makes you often forget that is a true story about the fight to win the run for the roses and the glory that is the Triple Crown. Drape covers all that and more in this gripping read. A true delight.
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Summary: Triple Your Knowledge of Racing's Triple Crown
Review: Racing fans have heard it many times before...There have been only eleven winners of the Triple Crown. Sir Barton was the first in 1919 and Affirmed, the last, in 1978. Eddie Arcaro won two Triple Crowns, one on Whirlaway in 1941 and then on Citation in 1948. There was a drought of twenty-five years between Citation's sweep and the coming of Secretariat in 73'. Secretariat is moving like a tremendous machine... So that's an overview of racing's classics. Now for something meatier...Thank you Joe Drape! Finally someone has gone beyond the legendary telling of this story and put it under a microscope. Drape's portrait of the Triple Crown is like a Robert Altman film with people and horses, owners, trainers, jockeys, everyone weaving in and out in search of victory, or at least a ticket to Louisville. The book goes happily beyond the soundbytes of trainers like Neil Drysdale and Todd Pletcher and delivers us a story that is intense, hopeful, sometimes funny, sometimes disappointing, but always interesting.
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Summary: Triple Your Knowledge of Racing's Triple Crown
Review: Racing fans have heard it many times before...There have been only eleven winners of the Triple Crown. Sir Barton was the first in 1919 and Affirmed, the last, in 1978. Eddie Arcaro won two Triple Crowns, one on Whirlaway in 1941 and then on Citation in 1948. There was a drought of twenty-five years between Citation's sweep and the coming of Secretariat in 73'. Secretariat is moving like a tremendous machine... So that's an overview of racing's classics. Now for something meatier...Thank you Joe Drape! Finally someone has gone beyond the legendary telling of this story and put it under a microscope. Drape's portrait of the Triple Crown is like a Robert Altman film with people and horses, owners, trainers, jockeys, everyone weaving in and out in search of victory, or at least a ticket to Louisville. The book goes happily beyond the soundbytes of trainers like Neil Drysdale and Todd Pletcher and delivers us a story that is intense, hopeful, sometimes funny, sometimes disappointing, but always interesting.
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Summary: Awesome Book
Review: This is a great book. It gives you tons of info on lots of like, trainers, horses, and races. It talks about the trainers Bob Baffert and D. Wayne Lukas(and more), horses like Fusaichi Pegasus, Charismatic, Captain Steve, and More Than Ready, just to name a few. In this book it talks about the authors experiences in owning a Quarter Horse named Oh Desperado, and the ups and downs of being a owner. This is one of my favorite books.
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