The Big Horse by Joe McGinniss
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Overview: . G. Johnson was a blue-collar wizard, a hardscrabble tough guy who had come east from Chicago, determined to make his mark on New York. And he did. He became leading trainer at all three New York tracks — Saratoga, Belmont, and Aqueduct — as well as at Florida’s Tropical Park. And he did it without ever winning a Triple Crown or Breeders’ Cup event, or having "the big horse."
"I never knew how to kiss rich people’s asses, and I got too old to learn. If no owner was going to give me a big horse, I figured I’d have to find one myself," he said. He did that, in his seventies, buying a mare for $8,000, breeding her to a $20,000 stallion, and in 1998 producing Volponi, the horse that would change his life.
In October 2002, weakened by surgery and radiation treatment for cancer, P. G. watched Volponi — the longest shot in the field at 43 to 1 — bring home more than $2 million by winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic, the richest race in America.
The following summer at Saratoga, McGinniss — journalist, investigative reporter, and horse racing obsessive — began showing up, more Tuesdays with Morrie than Guys and Dolls, at P. G.’s barn in the predawn hours to listen to the inside racing stories and lore P. G. had gathered. McGinniss came to appreciate that Johnson was not only a stellar horseman but an American original whose wit and wisdom carried far beyond the confines of the racetrack.
Genre: Biography
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