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9780071418621

Wink : The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield

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  • ISBN13:

    9780071418621

  • ISBN10:

    0071418628

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-09-24
  • Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Summary

This vivid biography of a great black jockey who was banned from American racing, and who found a new life in Europe during turbulent times.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

One: Bluegrass Boy

Two: "A Race War Is On"

Three: Winnie's Diamond

Four: "Winkfield's Dead!"

Five: Win the Futurity, and . . .

Six: "Winkfield, I Don't Like to Be Double-crossed!"

Seven: Invading Russia

Eight: Edna or a Life

Nine: James and Alexandra

Ten: Wink's World War I

Eleven: The Odyssey

Twelve: An American in Paris

Thirteen: Kings, Queens, and Wink

Fourteen: Marriage and Divorce

Fifteen: Josephine and Friends

Sixteen: Winkfield Shot; Winkfield Stabbed

Seventeen: Chickens, Rabbits, and Nazis

Eighteen: The Nazis versus Wink

Nineteen: The Backstretch

Twenty: You Can't Come In

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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