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Bill Hartack - The Bittersweet Life of a Hall of Fame Jockey (Paperback)
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Bill Hartack - The Bittersweet Life of a Hall of Fame Jockey (Paperback)
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Bill Hartack won the Kentucky Derby five times, and seemed to hate
every moment of it. ""If only Bill could have gotten along with
people the way he got along with horses,"" a trainer said. His
tragic, 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. Larry King, his friend, said it was just as well the
termperamental Hartack never married, because it wouldn't have
lasted. Hartack became one of racing's most accomplished jockeys.
But he was inveterate grouch and worked at giving 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 solitary 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.
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