Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legend

Patrick Smithwick

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Eclipse Press, Lexington KY, 2006

1581501404 / 9781581501407

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Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Patrick Smithwick has written an unusually moving memoir about growing up in the hell-bent-for-leather world of Thoroughbred racing as the son of Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey A.P. "Paddy" Smithwick. Racing My Father is the story of a son working alongside his father throughout summer mornings, and then hopping in a "hot car," windows up, heater blasting - so his father can sweat off a few more pounds - and driving his father to the track where the races will be held in the afternoon. Paddy Smithwick was a natural. He was a charismatic figure. He was the greatest steeplechase rider in America in the 1950s and '60s, winning all the big races, leading the country in raes won four times, dominating the sport with his style, ability, heart, and gentlemanly demeanor. Patrick Smithwick is also a natural. As a jockey, he won steeplechase races. As a writer, he's won awards. There are hints of the innocence of Huck Finn as Smithwick starts off his account of serving his apprenticeship with his father. The innocence ends when his father is paralyzed in a bad fall. Yet, the youthful Smithwick helps his father work his way back into racing, and the father-son, trainer-rider team ends up in the winner's circle at Saratoga Springs. Smithwick has recreated his own Yoknapatawpha County - with its gritty backsides and polished clubhouses, its knotty characters and sleek racehorses. Clean copy. Record # 379581.…

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Titolo
Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legend
Autore
Patrick Smithwick
Editore
Eclipse Press, Lexington KY
Anno di pubblicazione
2006
Condizione
Very Good
Sovraccoperta
sovraccoperta
Rilegatura
Rilegato
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1581501404
ISBN 13
9781581501407

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