Yankee Doodle Dandy: The Life and Times of Tod Sloan

John Dizikes

Yankee Doodle Dandy: The Life and Times of Tod Sloan
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Country
United States
Published
1 April 2004
Pages
225
ISBN
9780803266414

Yankee Doodle Dandy: The Life and Times of Tod Sloan

John Dizikes

Shows a small-town, hard-luck, midwestern boy who became an overnight sensation and an international celebrity in a world of breeders, bookmakers, gamblers, hustlers, bluebloods, and princes In the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rode horses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his stirrups and thrust his weight far forward. Traditionalists laughed at first and dismissed him as a novelty, but as he came to dominate racing on both sides of the Atlantic, his style of riding became widely imitated, and his famous forward seat remains universally practiced to this day. Sloan’s place in racing Iore and popular culture was cemented in 1904 when George M. Cohan wrote and starred in Little Johnny Jones, a Broadway musical based on Sloan’s rise and fall in England.

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