6/27/2023 0 Comments Out of the Clouds by Linda CarrollPaul von Hippel talked to Carroll and Rosner about Jacobs, Stymie, and how racing has changed since the 1940s. ‘Out of the Clouds’ is also the story of Stymie, the ‘People’s Horse’, who, after Jacobs claimed him in 1943 for $1,500, went on to win over $918,000 - a record at the time. He continued to be a leading trainer and breeder by prize money into the 1960s, and two of his family’s horses won Triple Crown races in 1970, the year he died. Jacobs grew up racing pigeons from tenement rooftops, started claiming and racing Thoroughbreds in the 1920s, and went on to win more races than any other trainer during the Depression and World War Two. ‘Out of the Clouds’ is the story of Hirsch Jacobs, born in 1904 to Jewish immigrants in New York. Now Carroll and Rosner have won the prestigious Dr Tony Ryan Book Award for horse racing books with their second racing book, ‘Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings’. Many racing fans know Linda Carroll and David Rosner’s 2014 book ‘Duel for the Crown: Affirmed, Alydar, and Racing’s Greatest Rivalry’. Late bloomer: Stymie (pictured with Hirsch Jacobs) didn’t win a stakes race until his 60th start, but he didn’t look back after that and that same season became a champion.
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