Taylor Trade Publishing
Pages: 288
Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-87833-264-9 • Hardback • May 2002 • $25.95 • (£19.99)
978-1-4616-6165-8 • eBook • May 2002 • $24.99 • (£18.99)
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.
Beautifully written . . . wonderfully nostalgic, and insightfully prophetic.
— Tom Carey, President, Hawthorne Race Course
Regardless of whether you agree with Georgeff on every point, you cannot deny that his stroll down memory lane makes for a good read. As on who lived through it all, he (Georgeff) poignantly captures an era now passed, "when all sports had soul and Thoroughbred racing was its beating heart."
— Mary Simon; Thoroughbred Times
The Kelsos, the Citations, the Swapses, and the Nashuas, whose trainers weren't affraid to run them week after week and didn't duck competition: These are the stories Georgeff tells, and the stories worth remembering.
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