In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps
the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky
Derby and the Preakness Stakes—and transcended his sport on a run
of twelve consecutive stakes victories. But he lost his quest for
the Triple Crown with a third-place finish in the Belmont Stakes
due to a series of bizarre events that have never before been
accurately reported. In The Fast Ride, Jack Gilden tells the story
of what really happened the day the Bid lost the biggest race of
his life. Along the way, he introduces the reader to a cast of
characters from the gilded age of late twentieth-century horse
racing, from Bid’s owners, the renowned Meyerhoff family, to
Grover “Buddy†Delp, the fast-talking trainer, to teenage
jockey Ronnie Franklin, whose meteoric rise to fame with
Spectacular Bid came at the cost of his innocence and well-being.
Also present are four of the era’s magnificent Latino riders,
Ãngel Cordero Jr., Jacinto Vásquez, Georgie Velásquez, and Ruben
Hernandez, who all felt the sting of rejection and bigotry during
their long careers even as they raised the level of competition to
a feverish pitch. The Fast Ride is the story of a great racehorse,
unfulfilled dreams, the exhilaration and steep price of striving at
all costs, and an American era in which getting everything you ever
wanted could be the most empty and unfulfilling sensation of all.
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