Overview
"Horse racing may be known as the sport of kings, but it's big fun and even bigger business. A mixture of beauty and excitement, action and refinement, it's a booming business that peaks annually when the Kentucky Derby turns Churchill Downs into the center of the gambling universe. In ""Horse $ense"", sportswriter and commentator Bert Sugar goes behind the scenes to interview owners, breeders, trainers, jockeys and track operators to uncover the world of horse racing with humour and wit. With insight and anecdotes, this book shows why we love the sport enough to make it a $100 billion industry."
Full Product Details
Author: Bert Randolph Sugar ,
Cornell Richardson
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780471445579
ISBN 10: 0471445576
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 26 May 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
...it is entertainment--a frolicsome compilation of fast--moving facts, Runyonesque quips and colorful quotes... (Barrona s, September 1, 2003)
...it is entertainment--a frolicsome compilation of fast-moving facts, Runyonesque quips and colorful quotes... (Barron's, September 1, 2003)
Author Information
"Bert Randolph Sugar is one of the most recognizable personalities in sports, with his trademark fedora and cigar, he is a fixture at race tracks and boxing matches. A former advertising executive at McCann-Erickson and J. Walter Thompson, Sugar left the world of advertising after a brawl with a fellow ad exec landed him in the pages of the NY Times and Advertising Age. Sugar became a sportswriter, and a damn good one at that. Bert was the editor of Ring Magazine and founder of Boxing Illustrated. Bert writes monthly for Street Smith's Sport's Business, Smoke Magazine (the back page) and Keeneland Magazine where he frequently writes about horse racing. Bert has been the Kentucky Derby announcer for Fox TV and has attended the races in the triple crown the last 25 years. Bert is a graduate of Harvard and University of Michigan Law School. Bert lives in Chappaqua, NY. Cornell Richardson is the former lending officer at Chemical Bank where he was the primary lending officer to the entertainment and sports industries-including many of those in the horse racing industry. Currently, he is working with renown TV director and documentarian Bud Greenspan on a documentary on ""The History of African-American Jockeys"" for ESPN as well as co-authoring a book entitled, ""The Ladies Wore Silks--The History of Women in Thoroughbred Racing."" Cornell lives in New York City."
