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Carol Flake : Tarnished Crown: The Quest For A Racetrack Champion

Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1987

ISBN 9780385197755

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BB1 - A first edition (same date) hardcover book SIGNED by Carol Flake with "Best wishes -" written on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some small tears on the edges and corners, chipping on some sides, some scattered scratches, rubbing, and scuffing, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some dent and scuffing on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.5"x5.75", 375 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Chief's Crown was an American-bred Thoroughbred race horse who won the 1984 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Two-Year-Old Male Horse. He later became a successful sire. Chief's Crown was a son of leading sire Danzig and Six Crowns, who was by Secretariat and out of the 1974 U.S. Filly Triple Crown winner Chris Evert. He was owned by the Star Crown Stable of the family of the late Carl Rosen, who had owned Chris Evert. They syndicated a half-interest in Chief's Crown to Three Chimneys Farm prior to his Breeders' Cup victory plus another quarter-interest to Claiborne Farm on his retirement. Chief's Crown is the only horse in history to lose all three U.S. Triple Crown races while being the betting favorite for each race. He finished 3rd to Spend A Buck in the Kentucky Derby, then in the Preakness Stakes set a record for the fastest first mile but finished a head behind Tank's Prospect. In the Belmont Stakes, Chief's Crown finished 3rd to Creme Fraiche. He came back later that year to win the Travers Stakes and the Marlboro Cup Invitational Handicap.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

First Edition
Signed by Author

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