And They're Off! My Years as the Voice of Thoroughbred Racing,9780878332649

And They're Off! My Years as the Voice of Thoroughbred Racing

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ISBN13: 9780878332649
ISBN10: 0878332642
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-05-07
Publisher(s): Taylor Trade Publishing
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Summary

Part memoir, part historical analysis, and part nostalgic remembrance, this book is the quintessential guide to the history of thoroughbred racing in the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Phil Georgeff is the most famous man in the Chicago thoroughbred horseracing world. Author of two novels on horseracing, he lives in Fairhope, Alabama. Jim O'Donnell, a staff writer for The Chicago Sun-Times, lives in Chicago, Illinois. Tom Durkin, the "voice" of NBC's annual Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup telecasts, lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Tom Durkin
Introduction ix
Jim O'Donnell
Prologue xiii
Glory Days
1(22)
The Thoroughbred Hall of Fame
23(20)
Knights of the Round Table
43(18)
Golden Geldings
61(26)
``Here Comes SheSellsSeaShells!''
87(6)
The Master, Eddie Arcaro
93(26)
Bill ``Silent Shoe'' Shoemaker
119(16)
Bill Hartack
135(10)
Jockey Shorts
145(22)
The Triple Crown
167(30)
The Art of Race Calling
197(22)
Match Race
219(16)
Of Tracks, Trainers, and Things
235(14)
Epilogue 249

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