Against The Odds Riding For My Life

Jerry Bailey has won the Eclipse Award as the nation's best jockey seven of the last nine years. He has won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes twice each, and a record fourteen Breeders' Cup races, and in 1995 was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame. In 2003, he shattered the long-standing record of most stakes wins in a season and his own North American record for most purse earnings in a year. Bailey lives in Florida, with his wife, Suzee, and their son, Justin. Tom Pedulla is a sportswriter for USA Today. In his twenty-seven-year career, which also includes Gannett, the Associated Press, and Sports Illustrated, he has covered virtually every major sporting event, including the Kentucky Derby, Super Bowl, World Series, and Summer and Winter Olympics. He lives in Tarrytown, New York.Bailey, Jerry is the author of 'Against The Odds Riding For My Life', published 2005 under ISBN 9780399152733 and ISBN 0399152733.