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The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby

By Crystal Hubbard, Robert McGuire (Illustrator)
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By Crystal Hubbard, Robert McGuire (Illustrator)
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The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing’s all-time great jockeys and the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1902.

Born into an African American sharecropping family in 1880s Kentucky, Jimmy Winkfield grew up loving horses. The large, powerful animals inspired little Jimmy to think big. Looking beyond his family's farm, he longed for a life riding on action-packed racetracks around the world.

Like his hero, the great Isaac Murphy, Jimmy "Wink" Winkfield would stop at...

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