購物比價找書網找車網
FindBook  
 有 1 項符合

The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing

的圖書
The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing

作者:Gilden 
出版社:University of Nebraska Press
出版日期:2023-09-01
語言:英文   規格:平裝 / 336頁 / 普通級/ 初版
圖書選購
型式價格供應商所屬目錄
 
$ 1024
博客來 博客來
運動競賽-賽馬
圖書介紹 - 資料來源:博客來   評分:
圖書名稱:The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing

內容簡介

In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes--and transcended his sport on a run of twelve consecutive stakes victories. But he lost his quest for the Triple Crown with a third-place finish in the Belmont Stakes due to a series of bizarre events that have never before been accurately reported.

In The Fast Ride, Jack Gilden tells the story of what really happened the day the Bid lost the biggest race of his life. Along the way, he introduces the reader to a cast of characters from the gilded age of late twentieth-century horse racing, from Bid’s owners, the renowned Meyerhoff family, to Grover "Buddy" Delp, the fast-talking trainer, to teenage jockey Ronnie Franklin, whose meteoric rise to fame with Spectacular Bid came at the cost of his innocence and well-being. Also present are four of the era’s magnificent Latino riders, Ángel Cordero Jr., Jacinto Vásquez, Georgie Velásquez, and Ruben Hernandez, who all felt the sting of rejection and bigotry during their long careers even as they raised the level of competition to a feverish pitch.

The Fast Ride is the story of a great racehorse, unfulfilled dreams, the exhilaration and steep price of striving at all costs, and an American era in which getting everything you ever wanted could be the most empty and unfulfilling sensation of all.

 

作者簡介

Jack Gilden is a past winner of the Simon Rockower journalism award. He is the author of Collision of Wills: Johnny Unitas, Don Shula, and the Rise of the Modern NFL (Nebraska, 2018). He also consults for businesses about their messaging and teaches journalism and composition at the college level.

 

詳細資料

  • ISBN:9781496236197
  • 規格:平裝 / 336頁 / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
贊助商廣告
 
金石堂 - 今日66折
法國寓言故事1:森林裡的嘉年華
作者:雍宜欽
出版社:五南圖書出版股份有限公司
出版日期:2017-11-28
66折: $ 185 
金石堂 - 今日66折
靈魂永生有聲書第5輯
66折: $ 581 
金石堂 - 今日66折
未知的實相有聲書【第4輯】
66折: $ 581 
 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
與妳相戀到生命盡頭 (首刷限定版) 07
作者:あおのなち
出版社:東立出版社
出版日期:2025-03-06
$ 152 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
別對每件事都有反應【2025限量暢銷特典版】:淡泊一點也無妨,活出快意人生的99個禪練習!
作者:枡野俊明
出版社:悅知文化
出版日期:2024-12-18
$ 260 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
相原和嘉島的戀愛喜劇或許會成真 (首刷限定版) 01
作者:キシモト
出版社:東立出版社
出版日期:2025-02-19
$ 200 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
臺灣漫遊錄
作者:青山千鶴子、楊双子
出版社:春山出版
出版日期:2020-03-31
$ 300 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
張居正講評《資治通鑒》
作者:張居正
出版社:新華先鋒(滾石移動)
出版日期:2025-02-21
$ 180 
博客來 - 新書排行榜
你想要怎樣的工作:什麼是工作?什麼是人生?吉竹伸介的思考方式值得學習!(隨書特典工作證貼紙)
作者:吉竹伸介
出版社:三采
出版日期:2025-03-07
$ 395 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
寫給大家的世界簡史
作者:赫伯特.喬治.威爾斯
出版社:新華先鋒(滾石移動)
出版日期:2025-02-21
$ 270 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
找尋未知的自己:跟隨三毛去旅行
作者:周意然
出版社:新華先鋒(滾石移動)
出版日期:2025-02-21
$ 180 
 

©2025 FindBook.com.tw -  購物比價  找書網  找車網  服務條款  隱私權政策