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Description:In the bestselling tradition of Seabiscuit and The Eighty-Dollar Champion, THE PEOPLE'S HORSE tells the rags-to-riches saga of Stymie and the unlikely horseman who bought the unwanted colt on the cheap and transformed him into racing's ultimate Cinderella champion and top career money winner, creating a beloved folk hero that inspired a postwar nation in pursuit of the American Dream. In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in "The Sport of Kings," a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed "The People's Horse" captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, The People's Horse unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings. To get started finding Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the bestselling tradition of Seabiscuit and The Eighty-Dollar Champion, THE PEOPLE'S HORSE tells the rags-to-riches saga of Stymie and the unlikely horseman who bought the unwanted colt on the cheap and transformed him into racing's ultimate Cinderella champion and top career money winner, creating a beloved folk hero that inspired a postwar nation in pursuit of the American Dream. In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in "The Sport of Kings," a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed "The People's Horse" captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, The People's Horse unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings. To get started finding Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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