The fast ride [electronic resource] : Spectacular Bid and the undoing of a sure thing / Jack Gilden.

""The Fast Ride" is a story about a great racehorse, unfulfilled dreams, the exhilaration and steep price of striving at all costs, and an American era in which getting everything you ever wanted could be the most unfulfilling sensation of them all"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gilden, Jack (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Spectacular Bid (Race horse) Thoroughbred horse > United States > Biography. Race horses. Horse racing.
Genre:	Biography.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2022 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2022 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
Format:	Electronic eBook

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