Wink

By: Ed Hotaling

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Paperback | 3 March 2006

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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.

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Preface	p. ix
Prologue	p. 1
Bluegrass Boy	p. 5
"A Race War Is On"	p. 26
Winnie's Diamond	p. 40
"Winkfield's Dead!"	p. 50
Win the Futurity and ...	p. 68
"Winkfield, I Don't Like to Be Double-Crossed!"	p. 79
Invading Russia	p. 91
Edna or a Life	p. 103
James and Alexandra	p. 120
Wink's World War I	p. 142
The Odyssey	p. 155
An American in Paris	p. 170
Kings, Queens, and Wink	p. 187
Marriage and Divorce	p. 198
Josephine and Friends	p. 218
Winkfield Shot: Winkfield Stabbed	p. 230
Chickens, Rabbits, and Nazis	p. 244
The Nazis versus Wink	p. 252
The Backstretch	p. 263
You Can't Come In	p. 290
Notes	p. 300
Selected Bibliography	p. 321
Acknowledgments	p. 325
Index	p. 329
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