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# American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise Paperback – Illustrated, April 11, 2017

**Brand:** joe drape
**Price:** A$44
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- **What is this?** American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner's Legendary Rise Paperback – Illustrated, April 11, 2017 by joe drape
- **How much does it cost?** A$44 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A great account sof the Champ's march to the Triple Crown.
  

*by M***9 on Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2016*

I had followed American Pharoah since his 2 year old year, so I know the whole story, so I wasn't sure how much I would like the book.  I LOVED it!  Great account of the Champ's march to the Triple Crown.  Great insights from Bafferts and the other folks behind the scenes.  Really enjoyable.  I recommend it not just for those who love horses, but for anyone who appreciates a great sports story.  A great job by Joe Drape.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Quite a Surprise
  

*by H***T on Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2020*

Ordered on a whim, when it arrived, when I saw the large print, I surmised it to be a kiddie book.  Absolutely NOT....this little gem is very well written, most informative and hard to put down.  What a good value!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Fun, Crazy Book
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017*

This is a very good and interesting book.  Some of the vignettes are so touching:  Baffert visiting 'Charm before last year's Derby especially. And the chunks of background information are so illuminating: breeding for speed over strength.  But this book was written in a hurry and it shows.  Very slapdash writing and very little if no editing.  Joe Drape is always fun to read in a column but his syntax really breaks down in book length.  And there are some real howlers.  Del Mar has NEVER been California's "premier track."  There is just no comparison between Del Mar's schedule and Santa Anita's, even before Santa Anita picked up Hollywood Park's races and that's been a couple of years now.  In fact, people familiar with both tracks are still trying to figure out how DM is going to host the Breeders' Cup.  Maybe part of the package will be to asphalt the entire parking lot?  Sometimes Drape waxes so poetic that he loses control.  Has Drape ever actually been to SA?  Yes the San Gabriel mountains form a beautiful backdrop to Santa Anita but they start 20 miles away as the crow flies. Horses exercising at SA are NOT breathing "crisp mountain air."  They are breathing sea level, urban Arcadia air--in the old days, before the Clean Air Act, you wouldn't have been able to see the mountains for the smog.One of the best things about this book are the references to past horses and races, Drape is so immediate in his descriptions and in this day and age, all of those races are available on Youtube.  You can read about a duel and then watch it.Also, because the book is about last year, some of the campaigners were still around this year--Frosted! Om! And, of course, 'Chrome shows up over and over.  But I don't think this is a book for a novice. Partly because of the way it bounces back and forth among topics--Drape first mentions Baffert without any background, if you didn't know who he was, you wouldn't find out until the next chapter.  I can understand that trying to weave several stories to make sense would be a challenge but I don't think that Drape quite solved it.  I knew what he was writing about and even I shook my head now and then and reordered paragraphs.  It's no good faulting a book that is focused on a thing, in this case, the Triple Crown, but the Breeders Cup gets lost a bit.  But by 2015, the BC races are huge; the purses are huge, winning a BC race is huge, just ask Arrogate.  Saying Point Given can never be considered a "great" race horse because he didn't win the K Derby.  POINT GIVEN "2001 Eclipse Champion 3 YO Colt & Horse of the Year.Only horse in history to have won four $1m races in a row: the Preakness, the Belmont, the Haskell Invitational and the Travers."  What does Drape want?But it's a fun book and I'm glad I'm reading it; it's just a little crazy.

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