The Race for the Triple Crown: Horses, High Stakes, and Eternal Hope by Joe DrapeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Written largely in bright, engaging prose this is a fascinating and detail looked into thoroughbred horse racing desirous of the rare triple crown. This story largely winds it was from recent history to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000 Kentucky Derby and the victory there of winning horse Fusaichi Pegasus, the first betting favorite to win the Derby since Spectacular Bid in 1979. Pegasus represented the buying one's way into winning and short of the triple crown - as is also Godolphin Racing covered here - and was indeed out of trying the time of the 2000 Belmont Stakes where Commendable won the day thanks to the training of D. Wayne Lukas, representing the traditional and more purist side of the sport. Lukas is practically treated as a career biography subject here.
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