{"product_id":"2940170147625","title":"Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the bestselling tradition of the \u003ci\u003eThe Eighty-Dollar Champion\u003c\/i\u003e, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in \"The Sport of Kings,\" a dirt-poor Brooklyn city  slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed \"The People's Horse\" captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking listeners on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eOut of the Clouds \u003c\/i\u003eunwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117216481520,"sku":"2940170147625","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170147625_p0.jpg?v=1763703133","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170147625","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}