Winner

Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award
(formerly the Castleton Lyons/Thoroughbred Times Book Award)

Thoroughbred Horse Racing's Book of the Year, 2009

Finalist

National Best Books 2009 Awards

National Indie Excellence Awards

New York Book Festival Book Awards

Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Eric Hoffer Book Awards

Premier Book Awards

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The Untold Story of Joe Hernandez: The Voice of Santa Anita
Special Edition with Audio CD

by Rudolph Valier Alvarado
Foreword by Father Frank Hernandez, S.J.

While working as a carpenter and teaching a class at the University of
Michigan in 2002, Alvarado came across Joe Hernandez's name in Laura
Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit: An American Legend,
six years later
the story of Hernandez's life was completed.

Today, it is the Most Decorated Independently Published
Biography of the Year.

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"A Stilled Voice is Brought Back to Life!"
Desiree Cooper
Detroit Free-Press
"Fascinating."
K.T. Donovan
Contributor
El Caballista
U.S., the Carribbean and Latin America
"A Great Read."
Leo Powell
Literary Critic
The Irish Field
Ireland
"Well Worth the Read."
Rudi Groothedde
Managing Editor
California Thoroughbred
"Recommended Reading."
Bob Mieszerski
Los Angeles Times
"A Number of Tasty Vignettes Along the Way."
Jay Hoveday
Daily Racing Form
"A Great Story!"
Roger Stein
The Roger Stein Show
"Well-Researched."
Mary Simon
Contributing Editor
Thoroughbred Times
"Simply Tremendous!"
Mike Willman
Santa Anita Park
"The Untold Story of Joe Hernandez pulled me in like a vaccum."
T.D. Thornton, Author of the award winning book
Not By a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard-Luck Horse Track
"One cannot question the passion with which the author approached his subject."
Bill Mooney, A two-time Eclipse Award winner
and author of The Complete Encyclopedia of Horse Racing

"A Source of Inspiration."
David J. Beltran, Thoroughbred breeder and author of
The Agua Caliente Story
"School Dropout Became Chapter in Track History."
Hank Wesch
San Diego Union-Tribune

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