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Title: Wink
Author: Ed Hotaling
Narrator: Alan Sklar
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-06-06
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Summary:
This vivid and compelling biography has already led to Winkfield's recent induction into the horse racing's Hall of Fame, one of only three black jockeys honored there. Wink tells the story of Jimmy's rise from humble beginnings as a shoeshine boy in Lexington, Kentucky, to the top of turn-of-the-century American racing. Bursting with talent, confidence, and charm, this brilliant horseman was poised to become the greatest athlete in what was then the world's biggest sport when he was blackballed by stable owners in 1903. Desperate to continue racing, Wink left his beloved Kentucky, bought a steamer ticket for Europe, and made the world his racetrack.
No athlete has ever had a more spectacular career or demonstrated more courageously how to ride past any hardship. Jimmy Winkfield achieved a human greatness that transcends the limits of sport. Wink tells this wonderful story, this American story, in all its rich and vibrant power.
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