Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield"In the entire sweep of American sports...no figure made a bolder and more original odyssey of his life than Jimmy Winkfield, the poor son of former slaves whose brilliance as a jockey bore him from the winner’s circle at the Kentucky Derby to the royal courts of Czarist Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and from Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany to the salons of Paris. In Wink, Ed Hotaling skillfully reports and chronicles Winkfield’s battles against racism in the New World--his courage and daring in escaping that most implacable of foes--and his success and rise to glory as a rider and then a trainer in the Old World. The tale of Wink is an illuminating and inspiring read." --William Nack --Senior writer, Sports Illustrated "In this fine book, Ed Hotaling adds the texture of a rich individual life to what his previous work [The Great Black Jockeys] has already told us about the great black jockeys of a century ago." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --Chair, African and African-American Studies, Harvard University The Harvey Klinger Agency in New York represents Wink |
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