Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield

"May be the most fascinating untold sports story in American history."--Charles Osgood, anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning 
"Winkfield's story is so incredible you'll find yourself wondering why you've never heard it before."--MSNBC 
"Winkfield's life (is) an unbelievable ride."--ESPN 
"For once, a book's breathless subtitle is accurate."--The Washington Post 
"This is the stuff of great nonfiction."--Douglas Brinkley, author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War 
In 1904, at age twenty-three, two-time Kentucky Derby-winner Jimmy Winkfield was forced from American horseracing by a virulent combination of racism and hard times. Wink left his beloved Kentucky, bought a steamer ticket for Europe, and made the world his racetrack. 
There he embarked on a decades-long odyssey, rising to superstardom and winning and losing two fortunes. Driven at gunpoint from Russia by the Bolshevik Army and from France by Nazi occupiers, the 105-pound jockey proved himself the most resilient, courageous athlete of the twentieth century. In 2005, Winkfield was inducted into America's horse racing Hall of Fame. 
Winkfield achieved a human greatness that transcends the limits of sport. In Wink, Ed Hotaling tells this wonderful story--this American story--in all its rich and vibrant power.

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Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield