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The Prince of Jockeys

Author : Pellom McDanielsIII

Publisher : University Press of Kentucky

Page : 550 pages

File Size : 16,63 MB

Release : 2013-10-22

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0813143845

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Isaac Burns Murphy (1861–1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched. Despite his success, Murphy was pushed out of Thoroughbred racing when African American jockeys were forced off the track, and he died in obscurity. In The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy, author Pellom McDaniels III offers the first definitive biography of this celebrated athlete, whose life spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the adoption of Jim Crow legislation. Despite the obstacles he faced, Murphy became an important figure—not just in sports, but in the social, political, and cultural consciousness of African Americans. Drawing from legal documents, census data, and newspapers, this comprehensive profile explores how Murphy epitomized the rise of the black middle class and contributed to the construction of popular notions about African American identity, community, and citizenship during his lifetime.



The Prince of Jockeys

Author : Pellom McDaniels III

Publisher : University Press of Kentucky

Page : 552 pages

File Size : 39,79 MB

Release : 2013-09-12

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0813143853

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Isaac Burns Murphy (1861--1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched. Despite his success, Murphy was pushed out of Thoroughbred racing when African American jockeys were forced off the track, and he died in obscurity. In The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy, author Pellom McDaniels III offers the first definitive biography of this celebrated athlete, whose life spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the adoption of Jim Crow legislation. Despite the obstacles he faced, Murphy became an important figure -- not just in sports, but in the social, political, and cultural consciousness of African Americans. Drawing from legal documents, census data, and newspapers, this comprehensive profile explores how Murphy epitomized the rise of the black middle class and contributed to the construction of popular notions about African American identity, community, and citizenship during his lifetime.



The Prince of Jockeys

Author : Pellom McDaniels (III.)

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 42,73 MB

Release : 2013

Category : African American jockeys

ISBN : 9780813144276

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McDaniels explores the extraordinary life and career of one of the nineteenth century's most important exemplars of African American potentiality. Murphy was born during slavery and died at the beginning of Jim Crow segregation - one of the many crossroads in America's social, economic, and political development - and his life followed the contours of American history, he and his wife Lucy being instrumental in elevating the occupation of professional jockey to the level of doctor or lawyer.



Race Horse Men

Author : Katherine C. Mooney

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 332 pages

File Size : 32,96 MB

Release : 2014-05-19

Category : History

ISBN : 067428142X

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Katherine C. Mooney recaptures the sights, sensations, and illusions of America’s first mass spectator sport. Her central characters are not the elite white owners of slaves and thoroughbreds but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who called themselves race horse men and made the racetrack run—until Jim Crow drove them from their jobs.



Bill Hartack

Author : Bill Christine

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 49,9 MB

Release : 2016-11-09

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1476663629

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Bill Hartack won the Kentucky Derby five times, and seemed to hate every moment. "If only Bill could have gotten along with people the way he got along with horses," a trainer said. His 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 for most of his life. Larry King, his friend, said it was just as well Hartack never married, because it wouldn't have lasted. Hartack was one of racing's most accomplished jockeys. But he was an inveterate grouch and gave 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 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.



Lost Riders

Author : Elizabeth Laird

Publisher : Pan Macmillan

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 18,69 MB

Release : 2013-03-28

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0230738931

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A story of separation and the strength of family, Lost Riders is a powerful and thought-provoking novel from award-winning author Elizabeth Laird. Taken from their home in Pakistan to work in the Persian Gulf, eight-year-old Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by harsh supervisors - but he has a talent for racing and quickly becomes his stable's star jockey. Soon he begins to forget what life was like when he had a proper home. He almost begins to forget about Shari . . .



Jumbo to Jockey

Author : Dominic Prince

Publisher : HarperCollins UK

Page : 24 pages

File Size : 20,26 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0007288670

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Dominic Prince - journalist, documentary maker, racing enthusiast and bon viveur - may have stepped down from his mount to revel in Fleet Street's three-hour lunches, but his desire to become a jockey still burns. In this book, middle-aged Prince recalls how he finally fulfilled his ambition.



Julie Krone

Author : Jeff Savage

Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group

Page : 62 pages

File Size : 45,1 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780822528883

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Discusses the childhood, education, riding career, and personal life of the first woman jockey to win a Triple Crown race.



Great Women in the Sport of Kings

Author : Scooter Toby Davidson

Publisher : Syracuse University Press

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 16,14 MB

Release : 1999-04-01

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9780815605652

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Although it has only been thirty years since the first female jockey rode onto the then male only turf of thoroughbred horse racing, they have since made their mark on the racetrack and in the winner's circle. Great Women in the Sport of Kings, the first book to consider the phenomenon of female jockeys, takes an indepth look at their lives. Through the oral histories of ten top female jockeys, the authors offer intimate portraits of how they overcame personal and professional obstacles to rise to the top of thoroughbred horse racing. In her Introduction, women's sports historian Mary Jo Festle explores the larger issues of women in sport, sexism in horse racing, the struggles female jockeys face, and the significance of their success. The jockey's include: Diane Nelson, Julie Krone, Paula Keim-Bruno, Jill Jellison, Gwen Jackson, Darci Rice, Rosemary Homiester, Jr., Donna Barton, Kristi Chapman, and Dodi Duys.



Black Winning Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby

Author : James Robert Saunders

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 143 pages

File Size : 21,42 MB

Release : 2015-10-03

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1476616698

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Oliver Lewis was champion jockey of the Kentucky Derby in 1875 with a winning race time of two minutes and 37 seconds. Jockey Willie Simms won in 1896, bringing his horse in at two minutes and seven seconds. James Winkfield was the winning jockey in both 1901 and 1902 with winning race times of two minutes and seven seconds and two minutes and eight seconds, respectively. Each of these men possessed the skill and power necessary to spur a horse to glorious victory. All are members of the small, select group of Derby-winning jockeys who were African Americans. The stakes were high: Black jockeys who won a race in the late 1700s and 1800s sometimes won freedom from slavery as well. This work examines the presence of black jockeys in the Kentucky Derby, from the first instance of slaves working as stable hands and tending their masters' horses to the first black jockey to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby in 1875 and the continued participation of black jockeys in the Kentucky Derby. Black owners and trainers in the Kentucky Derby are also discussed. Three appendices list black winning jockeys, black trainers and black owners of Kentucky Derby horses.