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Patrick Smithwick

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Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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Patrick Smithwick's FLYING CHANGE won the $10,000 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award on April 10, 2013 and accepted it at Castleton Lyons farm in Lexington, KY. A Washington Post editor was the judge. Submissions came from all over the globe.

Smithwick has been working with horses all of his life. At a very young age he began working with his father, the legendary steeplechase jockey, A.P. Smithwick, who became a trainer after retiring from riding. Smithwick then worked his way through school and college by exercising Thoroughbreds at major East Coast racetracks and riding steeplechase races at such venues as Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course, and hunt meets such as the Maryland Hunt Club and the Grand National.

Smithwick received a Bachelor or Art ...more

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Average rating: 4.35 · 63 ratings · 11 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legend 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying Change: A Year of Racing and Family and Steeplechasing 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racing Time: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Liberation 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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