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May be the most fascinating untold sports story in American history. --Charles Osgood, anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning Winkfield's story is so incredible you'll find yourself wondering why you've never heard it before. --MSNBC Winkfield's life (is) an unbelievable ride. --ESPN For once, a book's breathless subtitle is accurate. --The Washington Post This is the stuff of great nonfiction. --Douglas Brinkley, author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam WarIn 1904, at age twenty-three, two-time Kentucky Derby-winner Jimmy Winkfield was forced from American horseracing by a virulent combination of racism and hard times. Wink left his beloved Kentucky, bought a steamer ticket for Europe, and made the world his racetrack.There he embarked on a decades-long odyssey, rising to superstardom and winning and losing two fortunes. Driven at gunpoint from Russia by the Bolshevik Army and from France by Nazi occupiers, the 105-pound jockey proved himself the most resilient, courageous athlete of the twentieth century. In 2005, Winkfield was inducted into America's horse racing Hall of Fame.Winkfield achieved a human greatness that transcends the limits of sport. In Wink, Ed Hotaling tells this wonderful story--this American story--in all its rich and vibrant power.

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Ed Hotaling is a producer for the NBC television station in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Great Black Jockeys, and They're Off! Horse Racing at Saratoga. Additionally, he has published articles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, International Herald-Tribune, and many other publications. Hometown: Washington, D.C.

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