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ISBN10: 0071487042 | ISBN13: 9780071487047

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"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.
Preface
Prologue
One: Bluegrass Boy
Two: "A Race War Is On"
Three: Winnie's Diamond
Four: "Winkfield's Dead!"
Five: Win the Futurity, and . . .
Six: "Winkfield, I Don't Like to Be Double-crossed!"
Seven: Invading Russia
Eight: Edna or a Life
Nine: James and Alexandra
Ten: Wink's World War I
Eleven: The Odyssey
Twelve: An American in Paris
Thirteen: Kings, Queens, and Wink
Fourteen: Marriage and Divorce
Fifteen: Josephine and Friends
Sixteen: Winkfield Shot; Winkfield Stabbed
Seventeen: Chickens, Rabbits, and Nazis
Eighteen: The Nazis versus Wink
Nineteen: The Backstretch
Twenty: You Can't Come In
Notes
Selected BibliographyAcknowledgments
Index
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