American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner’s Legendary Rise Audiobook (Free)

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History was made on the Belmont Stakes in Summer season 2015 when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown name, the initial racehorse to achieve the momentous feat since Affirmed in 1978. Pharoah was the masses preferred, as spectators experienced anxiously expected the American Thoroughbred’s triumph, already a proven winner in the year’s earlier Kentucky Derby and Preakness races.

By all of the appearances, American Pharoah has led an effective career, unmarred simply by any controversy as he about American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner’s Legendary Rise was the undisputed champion-only twelve horses total in American history have won the Triple Crown. Unfortunately however, his training team has not fared nearly aswell.

With accusations which range from sour business transactions to poor gambling practices to active litigation with bankruptcy courts and other legal cases pending, his owner Ahmed Zayat has many rooting against him. The flamboyant Egyptian-American businessman continues to be leading a double-life which has threatened to overwhelm his little empire. Victor Espinoza, the famed racehorse’s relentless jockey, remaining rural Mexico and then face harsh circumstances on a farm where he had to get over his fear of horses before learning that he previously something special for race driving. Finally, Bob Baffert, American Pharoah’s trainer, has an interesting arc which includes huge wins, personal deficits, and controversial medicine violations.

Beginning with American Pharoah’s modest displaying at his first maiden race in 2014, NY Moments sportswriter Joe Drape recounts the winning thoroughbred’s explosive race career by weaving in details of Zayat’s questionable business practices, Espinoza’s heartbreaking loss with California Chrome this past year, and Baffert’s temperamental, unreliable track record. By interviewing the parties involved and acquiring visitors behind the scenes from the making of America’s most recent Triple Crown champion, Drape unfurls an account ‘that transcends athletics, a story of adolescence and small-town life’ (Publishers Weekly), and all of the problem, illegal gambling, and secretive business methods that can flourish in the shadows of greatness.