Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation - Couverture rigide

Chong, Kevin

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ISBN 10 : 0670067792 ISBN 13 : 9780670067794

Editeur : Viking, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In every sport there are a select few competitors that come to define the excellence  that all others must forever aspire to. In “the sport of kings,” there is one  that stands alone. Northern Dancer is not only a Canadian legend, but the  cornerstone of his breed. It has been estimated that 70 percent of the thoroughbreds  alive today are his descendants, which includes the majority of the horses  running in the biggest races around the world. His offspring received recordbreaking  prices on the auction floor.

While much has been written about Northern Dancer’s prepotence as a sire, this  book is the only one devoted to his 1964 campaign, which saw him win two of the  Triple Crown races in the U.S. and Canada’s Queen’s Plate. In that time, he captured  the attention of the world and the hearts of all Canadians. In Northern Dancer, the  world-famous horse comes alive through the people whose lives he touched: E.P. Taylor,  the visionary industrialist whose web of business placed him at the end of every consumer  transaction for every Canadian and made him the subject of scorn; Horatio Luro, the dapper  Argentinean trainer (and tango dancer, pilot, and race car driver) who was notorious for  his affairs with Hollywood starlets and his tender treatment of horses; and Bill Hartack,  a wildly successful jockey whose squabbles with the press and his inability to conceal his  unvarnished truth from influential owners and trainers was, by 1964, beginning to affect  his career. Using news clippings from 1964 and interviews, this book offers novelistic detail  not only on the remarkable 1964 Triple Crown and Queen’s Plate races, but also revisits,  fifty years later, the era in which Canada was struggling to establish an identity, needing,  more than anything, a national hero.

Revue de presse :

“A straightforward, detail-filled, and nation-proud reciting of one of Canada’s ‘most thrilling stories.....’ Horse race history buffs may appreciate the glimpses of behind-the-scenes politicking, while a general readership may be gratified by the brisk pacing of the storytelling.” - Publishers Weekly

“Compelling.” - Maclean’s

“[A] smart recreation of a four-legged hero.” - The Globe and Mail

“Extensive in detail and meticulously noted.... Chong’s prose is characterized by its breadth of offbeat information ... and yields sounds portraits of the three men and their prized contender.” - Straight.com

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0670067792
• ISBN 13: 9780670067794
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320