2022 marks PressBox’s sixth annual Best Of edition celebrating the top people, performances and moments of the year.
Best New Book
In 1979, Spectacular Bid became the first of 13 horses to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness but come up short in the Belmont during horse racing’s 37-year Triple Crown drought. So what exactly happened to the horse whose career began at Pimlico, was owned by the Meyerhoff family and was trained on the Eastern Shore? Baltimore’s Jack Gilden tells the story of the champion in “The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing.”
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