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1962 · 030370 — Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1962. HARDCOVER first edition. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped $4.50. Only minor shelfwear. Square and tight. Previous owner's info on the rear free endpaper. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Includes accounts of great horses Man O' War Seabiscuit Nashua Swaps etc and great jockeys Eddie Arcaro Earle Sande Johnny Longden etc. Bound in the original rust color cloth stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. From the dust jacket: "James Fitzsimmins now known affectionately as Mr. Fitz was America's most successful trainer with three Kentucky Derbys and some 225 winners of 95 other highly valuable races. i. e. Churchill Downs Preakness Saratoga Hialeah Belmont Park and Aqueduct etc." From the publisher: "An evocative portrait of a man who lived a lifetime at the track. 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.". First Edition so stated. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 238pp. 18 b/w illustrations. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Doubleday & Company, Inc Hardcover