Sunny Jim

Sunny Jim
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9781453245316
ISBN-13 : 1453245316
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Book Synopsis Sunny Jim by : Jimmy Breslin

Download or read book Sunny Jim written by Jimmy Breslin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative portrait of the Triple Crown–winning racehorse trainer: “sportswriting as good as it could ever possibly be” (New York Daily News). At seventy-seven, James “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons should have been considering retirement. His six-decade career stretched back to 1885, when, as an eleven year-old, he began working as a stable boy. After failing as a jockey, Fitzsimmons—or Mr. Fitz to those in the know—started training horses, eventually winning three Kentucky Derbys, two Triple Crowns, and more than two thousand races. But by 1951, glory seemed to be behind him. His wife’s sudden death took the light from his eyes, and retirement loomed. And then he met Nashua. She was the kind of horse trainers dream of. Big, powerful, with a windpipe that could suck down enough air to keep her running for weeks. Mr. Fitz knew he had a winner. It was only a matter of time before he realized that he had also just met the most remarkable horse of his long, storied career. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.


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