For an event that lasts just a few ticks of the clock, the Kentucky Derby has an amazing amount of tradition and history - and you'll find it all in THE KENTUCKY DERBY VAULT: A HISTORY OF THE RUN FOR THE ROSES. Author Andrew Plattner was born in Lexington, Kentucky and has been a turf writer for 15 years. He offers his own unique insight into "The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports". The vault contains never-before-published vintage photographs, artwork and memorabilia drawn from Churchill Downs' archives, the Keeneland Library and private collections. You'll find reproductions of old race programs, historic betting tickets, owner / trainer passes and other faithful replicas tucked into dozens of sleeves and pockets in the book. You can read an 1894 letter detailing the Louisville Jockey Club's financial difficulties, hold a 1902 New Louisville Jockey Club membership certificate in your hand, hang our 1935 miniature pennant on your wall or relive Grindstone's 1996 photo finish. All of this and more is locked inside "The Vault", a must for all horse racing fans.

The Kentucky Derby Vault: A History of the Run for the Roses

Sports & Outdoors

Plattner, Andy

Individual Sports

Whitman Pub Llc

The ten stories in Winter Money are set in rural Kentucky and West Virginia, in dim horse racing and river towns. The men in Andy Plattner’s stories are tough and uncertain, the women independent and disappointed, but they are strong-willed and high-spirited, always believing there’s a better life, just over the horizon, after the next race.The title story depicts the life of a jockey agent who has seen some bad breaks but knows in his heart he can turn things around if he can just get some “winter money” to make a fresh start in Florida. In “Chandelier,” a bankrupt horse breeder risks everything again in an attempt to save a friend’s farm. “Eldorado” is the story of a young horse groom convinced an old car will be good luck for him, even though it could break down over the next hill.Life at a race track is as desperately unpredictable as the next race, but the people bound to this life live only when they are taking chances. The lies they tell themselves and others run with reality to create new truths. The men and women of Winter Money live in motel rooms that rent by the week, where strangers can change the course of lives. Love and compassion come from unexpected sources, and, as a result, dreams and desired are nurtured and sometimes, against the odds, sustained.

Winter Money: Stories

Literature & Fiction

United States

Univ of Georgia Pr

Winter Money: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

University of Georgia Press

The characters in the story collection TOWER move through their lives with the sense that something is missing. When attempting to fill the void, they discover that the problem isn't what's missing, the problem invariably has to do with a truth they've been trying to avoid. In ""Landslide,"" an unemployed father brings home a board game so he can teach his children what is good about American politics. In ""Tower,"" a father and daughter head for Chicago to visit the Art Institute and take in a Manet exhibition. While in the city they find a way to express their feelings about the 45th President. Other stories center on gambling: ""Hialeah"" and ""Fortune"" involve characters who are trying to change the direction of their sputtering lives. While both stories take place in Miami, they happen decades apart yet feature similar traps. The stories are also set in small towns: Akron, Ohio; Steelage, West Virginia; Vicksburg, Mississippi. In ""At the Democrat Museum in Madisonville, Kentucky,"" a middle-aged narrator visits his mother during the pandemic and tries to understand why she won't wear her face mask, even though she is a proud, lifelong Democrat. In ""Mississippi,"" the main character returns to her hometown to assist her family with a problem, despite the fact they haven't asked for any help. The main character in ""Room"" routinely travels to a specific motel in an out-of-the-way town in West Virginia because he knows the proprietor there will sleep with him. As the affair grows riskier, his interest in continuing it begins to diminish. She tells him things will be all right, and reminds him that they're not in love, anyway.

Tower

Mercer Univ Pr

Long-time jockey Carl Arvo knows the things he can have and the things he cannot. An unexpected turn of fortune gives him the chance to be with a woman, Christine Fleming, who in some ways is the person he's been looking for his entire life.

Offerings From a Rust Belt Jockey

Dzanc Books

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