|
The
Kingmaker: How Northern Dancer Founded a Racing Dynasty
Avalyn
Hunter
Pub Date: April 2006. When
Canadian industrialist and Thoroughbred breeder E.P. Taylor
watched his well-bred, handsome colt remain unsold at
his annual yearling sale, he could hardly have envisioned
the degree to which this seeming misfortune would boomerang
in his favor. Named Northern Dancer, the sales reject
proved his worth by winning the 1964 Kentucky Derby and
Preakness Stakes for Taylor. In doing so, he became a
legendary influence on the breed, at one time commanding
a million-dollar stud fee. International competition for
his offspring created world records in the auction ring.
Respected
pedigree authority Avalyn Hunter explores how Northern
Dancer and his sons have established a royal dynasty that
has profoundly dominated the international bloodstock
market.
Avalyn was a guest on bloodhorse.com's live chat "Talkin' Horses" on March 29. Read the transcript.
About the Author:
One of the first pedigree books Avalyn Hunter can
recall reading as a fifteen-year-old is Sir Charles Leicester’s
classic work Bloodstock Breeding, which twenty-five
years later served as a model and inspiration for Hunter’s
first book, American
Classic Pedigrees 1914–2002. Covering the
race records, antecedents, and descendants of the winners
of the American Triple Crown races plus the Kentucky Oaks
and Coaching Club American Oaks for fillies, the massive
work took some two years to write and was released in
May 2003 by Eclipse Press.Hunter has also published the
award-winning fiction stories “The Passing of the
Torch” and “The Foundation,” both prizewinners
in the Thoroughbred Times Biennial Fiction Contest,
and writes pedigree articles regularly for The Blood-Horse,
MarketWatch, and Owner-Breeder International.
A former Air Force officer, Hunter is a graduate of Vanderbilt
University (BA, psychology) and Southern Illinois University
at Edwardsville (MA, clinical psychology) and has worked
as a mental health professional since 1993. She lives
in Florida with her husband and two children.
|
Hardcover
6 x 9
256 pages
20 b/w photos
15 color photos
Product #B11-1107
List Price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1-58150-137-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-58150-137-7
|
