Patrick Smithwick, author of "Racing My Father" will be here to sign his new book,
"Flying Change: A year of racing and family and steeplechasing"
Saturday, July 21, 11am to 1pm
Kentucky Horse Park Gift Shop
Don't miss this chance to meet the author and pick up his book, which is described as, "This memoir of dueling ambitions is the tale of a man who decides in mid-life to call off all restraints, silence all naysayers, put his mind and body and courage to the test, and do what in his case-he has been away from the world of racing for twenty-five years-is the impossible: within a nine-month period get a horse to ride in the most difficult steeplechase race in the world, and then, ride that horse as if his life depends on it, which, literally, it does."
See you here!
Cigar, who was named "Horse of the Decade," is a resident of our Hall of Champions. He earned nearly $10 million on the racetrack and is ranked as the 18th greatest racehorse of the 20th century.
