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product_id: 35096421
title: "The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby"
price: "3352 Lei"
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# The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby

**Price:** 3352 Lei
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The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby [Crystal Hubbard, Robert McGuire] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby

Review: They loved this! - I teach fourth graders, and they loved this book! Most of them had no schema on the Kentucky Derby, but now they do! Wink is a wonderful person to share with them! Get this book! It is a winner!
Review: Five Stars - Good Book

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,879,190 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,723 in Children's Sports Biographies (Books) #2,404 in Children's Multicultural Biographies #2,599 in Children's Black & African American Story Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 24 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ They loved this!
*by A***R on April 28, 2019*

I teach fourth graders, and they loved this book! Most of them had no schema on the Kentucky Derby, but now they do! Wink is a wonderful person to share with them! Get this book! It is a winner!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by C***S on June 16, 2017*

Good Book

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children
*by Y***S on September 10, 2008*

Jimmy "Wink" Winkfield already showed signs of his special bond with horses as a young child growing up on a Kentucky farm in a large sharecropping family. He may have been the smallest child, but he knew how to dream big, and he enjoyed nothing more than hopping up on the workhorses and letting his imagination carry him away as a great jockey. At the age of 16 while working as a stable hand and exercise rider, Wink attracted notice from a horse trainer who asked him to race one of his horses in Illinois. Unfortunately Wink's first race resulted in a collision involving multiple horses and jockeys, and he was suspended from racing for a year. Wink returned to the race circuit to earn a long string of victories and four consecutive opportunities to race in the prestigious Kentucky Derby. He earned third place in the Kentucky Derby his first year, then won first place two times (in 1901 and 1902), and the fourth year he placed a heart-wrenching second. Wink went on to race in Europe for the remainder of his career, largely because racial discrimination and the closure of numerous racetracks in the United States led to the virtual disappearance of jobs for black jockeys. With all his racing victories, Wink left a legacy as one of history's greatest jockeys and the last African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. The thrilling text and dramatic oil paintings make it exceedingly difficult to put this book down before reaching the very last page. Carefully intertwined in the tales of Wink's triumphs and defeats are important lessons about discrimination and job opportunities that had a profound impact on his career progression. The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby makes a valuable contribution to children's literature by bringing to life the story of an African American hero whose rightful place in sports history has only recently gained recognition and appreciation.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
- D is for Derby: A Kentucky Derby Alphabet: A Kentucy Derby Alphabet (Sports Alphabet)

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*Last updated: 2026-01-25*