The First Kentucky Derby
The First Kentucky Derby
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The First Kentucky Derby by Mark Shrager
In The First Kentucky Derby, racing historian Mark Shrager examines the events leading up to the first Run for the Roses, the unsuccessful plot hatched by the winning horse's owner to fix the race, and the prominent role played by African Americans in Gilded Age racing culture-a holdover from pre-emancipation days, when slaves were trained from birth to ride for their wealthy owners and grew up surrounded by the horses that would be their life's work.
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 (Lyons, 2016).He lives in Altadena, CA.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781493073344 |
| ISBN 10 | 1493073346 |
| Title | The First Kentucky Derby |
| Author | Mark Shrager |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Eclipse Press |
| Year published | 2023-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |