Why read Run for the Roses?

Book cover of Run for the Roses: 100 Years at the Kentucky Derby

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First edition bound in white & green cloth with red lettering. Color & B&W illustrations, 4to size, 209 pp. Just about Fine in dj. Book is fine but for someone inking the publisher's address underneath the name on the title page. Otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in a nice dust…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Run for the Roses as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Avalyn Hunter

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If you love Kentucky Derby history, you can’t go wrong with any of Jim Bolus’s magical collections of Derby stories, but this is the book that kicked everything off.

I didn’t know when I first read it that Bolus had been a sports reporter with the Louisville Courier-Journal—the hometown newspaper for the Derby—for many years, but I was enchanted by his combination of a journalist’s keen eye for the nuts and bolts of a story and a storyteller’s sense of wonder and enjoyment in his tale.

Many years after my first encounter with Run for the Roses, I find…

From Avalyn's list on thoroughbred horses and horse racing.