03915cam a2200649 4500 598855554 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781496231819 1496231813 B09JS31PDD Amazon 94b0b82b-8404-484a-bd07-cb1b89a28291 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8794713 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gilden, Jack. The Fast Ride [Libby] : Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing. Nebraska, 2022. sports. Georgie Velasquez. Grover Buddy Delp. Ronnie Franklin. horseracing. discrimination. Belmont Stakes. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1330kB. doping. Thoroughbred. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Animal Manipulation. american history. Substance Abuse. racism. twentieth century history. Cheating. Ruben Hernandez. Race Fixing. Preakness Stakes. racehorse. Jockey. horse. horse trainer. Angel Cordero Jr. triple crown. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. bigotry. Kentucky Derby. Meyerhoff Family. HTML: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 his quest for the Triple Crown was lost with a third-place finish in the Belmont Stakes due to a series of bizarre events that have never been accurately reported.<br /> In <i>The Fast Ride</i>, Jack Gilden tells the story of what really happened that 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 aboard 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 Vasquez, Georgie Velasquez, and Ruben Hernandez, who all felt the sting of rejection and bigotry during their long careers even as they found their way and raised the level of competition to a feverish pitch.<br /> Underlying Spectacular Bid's saga was a thin line between hard work and excess, including substance abuse, animal manipulation and doping, and race fixing. Hardly anyone in the horse's circle made it out unscathed or undamaged.<br /> <i>The Fast Ride</i> 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.<br /> <br />. History. Nonfiction. Sports & Recreations. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=94b0b82b-8404-484a-bd07-cb1b89a28291&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=94b0b82b-8404-484a-bd07-cb1b89a28291&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=94b0b82b-8404-484a-bd07-cb1b89a28291&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)