Bill Hartack - The Bittersweet Life of a Hall of Fame Jockey

Bill Hartack won the Kentucky Derby five times, and seemed to hate every moment. "If only Bill could have gotten along with people the way he got along with horses," a trainer said. His impoverished upbringing didn't help: his mother was killed in an automobile accident; the family home burned down; his father was murdered by a girlfriend; and he was estranged from his sisters for most of his life. Larry King, his friend, said it was just as well Hartack never married, because it wouldn't have lasted.
Hartack was one of racing's most accomplished jockeys. But he was an inveterate grouch and gave the press a hard time. At 26, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Whenever the media tried to bury him, he would win another Derby. At the end of his life, he was found alone in a cabin in the Texas hinterlands.
Drawn from dozens of interviews and conversations with family members, friends and enemies, this book provides a full account of Hartack's turbulent life.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface

¿1.¿Catching Up with Arcaro

¿2.¿The Triple Frown

¿3.¿"Get Out of the House!"

¿4.¿Goggles Optional

¿5.¿Leaky Roofs

¿6.¿Heads It's Cutshaw, Tails It's Hartack

¿7.¿Shoemaker's Large Shadow

¿8.¿A Derby Windfall

¿9.¿The Split with Calumet

10.¿Cover Boys

11.¿Chick Throws in the Towel

12.¿Bill and Eddie: Don't Invite Them to the Same Party

13.¿Put the Schadenfreude on Hold

14.¿Hard Times

15.¿What's His Line? Winning the Derby

16.¿Peaks and Valleys with Northern Dancer

17.¿Westward Ho

18.¿Taxing Problems

19.¿Bus Stop

20.¿Any Horse in a Storm

21.¿A 4,000th Win, the Hard Way

22.¿Winding Down

23.¿9,000, Give or Take a Mile

24.¿Quo Vadis?

25.¿Iberia

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Bill Christine won nine national writing awards and shared in a Pulitzer Prize during his 25 years with the Los Angeles Times. His books include Roberto!, a biography about baseball great Roberto Clemente. He lives in Torrance, California.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Christine, Christine Bill
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2016
• EAN: 9781476663623
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6362-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Nature > Horses, riding; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, 20th Century, Horse Racing, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, history of sport, Biography: sport, United States of America, USA, SPORTS & RECREATION / Animal Sports / Horse Racing