The First Kentucky Derby: Thirteen Black Jockeys, One Shady Owner, and the Little Red Horse That Wasn't Supposed to Win
Mark Shrager$30.56
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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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Eclipse Press
Published: 05/01/2023
ISBN: 9781493073344
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 0.94d
Review Citations: Library Journal 06/02/2023 pg. 1