And They're Off!: My Years as the Voice of Thoroughbred Racing

by Phil Georgeff

Overview

Part memoir, part historical analysis, and part nostalgic remembrance, this book is the quintessential guide to the history of thoroughbred racing in the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878332649
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	05/07/2002
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Phil Georgeff is the most famous man in the Chicago thoroughbred horseracing world. Author of two novels on horseracing, he lives in Fairhope, Alabama. Jim O'Donnell, a staff writer for The Chicago Sun-Times, lives in Chicago, Illinois. Tom Durkin, the "voice" of NBC's annual Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup telecasts, lives in New York.

Editorial Reviews

The Kelsos, the Citations, the Swapses, and the Nashuas, whose trainers weren't affraid to run them week after week and didn't duck competition: These are the stories Georgeff tells, and the stories worth remembering.

From the Publisher

Regardless of whether you agree with Georgeff on every point, you cannot deny that his stroll down memory lane makes for a good read. As on who lived through it all, he (Georgeff) poignantly captures an era now passed, "when all sports had soul and Thoroughbred racing was its beating heart."

Thoroughbred Times - Mary Simon

Beautifully written. .. wonderfully nostalgic, and insightfully prophetic.

Tom Carey