Duel for the Crown: Affirmed, Alydar, and Racing’s Greatest Rivalry

Duel for the Crown brings the epic racing rivalry between Affirmed and Alydar to life--not just the two magnificent Thoroughbreds but the colorful human personalities surrounding them, caught up in an ever-intensifying battle of will and wits that lasted until the photo finish of the final Triple Crown race. The paperback edition is updated with new photos throughout.

Veteran journalists Linda Carroll and David Rosner have collaborated on three acclaimed nonfiction books--The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic, Duel for the Crown: Affirmed, Alydar and Racing’s Greatest Rivalry, and, most recently, Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings, winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award. Carroll is a Peabody Award-winning writer who covers health and medicine for NBC News. An accomplished equestrian, she brings more than thirty years of experience in breeding, training, and showing horses. She owns and operates Fiery Run Farm, where she has hands-on control of breeding and training her eighteen Arabian and Oldenburg sport horses. Rosner has worked as a sportswriter at major metro newspapers and as an editor of national magazines. As a reporter at Newsday in New York, he earned national Associated Press Sports Editors Association awards for investigative reporting and deadline writing. In addition to his book collaborations with Carroll, he co-authored The Official Illustrated NHL History.