My Favorite Derby Stories - Hardcover

Reed, Billy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1884532489 ISBN 13: 9781884532481

Publisher: Butler Books, 2003

Synopsis

In over four decades of sportswriting, Billy Reed has covered virtually every major sporting event in America. But nothing means as much to him as the Kentucky Derby. He has become something of an authority on the race, not just because he loves it, but because he has covered it so closely for so long. He has met and written about most of the personalities, celebrities, trainers, owners, and horses that have added such drama and intrigue to the first Saturday in May.

Now he has compiled 23 of his favorite stories, selected from his columns in The Courier-Journal, the Lexington Herald-Leader, and Sports Illustrated. In them you will read about the great horses – Northern Dancer, Secretariat, Alydar, Spectacular Bid, Canonero; the colorful trainers – Johnny Campo, Woody Stephens, Buddy Delp, and the current Three Amigos Bob Baffert, D. Wayne Lukas and Nick Zito; and interesting owners – Bob and Beverly Lewis, W.T. Young, and Arthur Hancock, to name a few. These are 23 slices of Derby life, told in inimitable Reed style.

Complementing the stories is a Preface by Tom Hammond, Kentucky’s native son who now is one of the nation’s premier sportscasters and the host of NBC’s coverage of the Kentucky Derby.

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Review

"If I could train like Billy Reed writes, I would never have to go to the barn." -- Bob Baffert, 1997

"This book sings My Old Kentucky Home. I love it." -- Dave Kindred

"When I think of Kentucky, I think of Daniel Boone, Matt Winn, Adolph Rupp, and Billy Reed." -- Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1996

"When it comes to award-winning journalists, Billy Reed takes a back seat to very few people, indeed." -- Dan Farley, The Racing Post, 2002

Edition details

• Publisher: Butler Books
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884532489
• ISBN 13: 9781884532481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120