Former Eclipse Award-winning jockey Eddie Donnally has launched his third book entitled “The Golden Altar, Selling Souls for a Horse With No Name.” It is available on Amazon and Kindle or by order from any bookstore or library.
Set in 1972 at the beginning of horse racing's “Golden Age,” the book features a once-barred jockey battling addiction, the fledgling female trainer he loves, and her criminal father who together race a mysterious, super-talented horse with no legal papers all the way to the Kentucky Derby while a crusading track detective is fixated on foiling their ringer scheme and putting them in jail.
Donnally rode in over 10,000 races over a 19-year career, winning nearly 1,200 of them, but is better known as a turf writer. He has published well over 100 articles and won an Eclipse Award in 1984 while with the Dallas Morning News.
Today, Donnally holds a Doctorate of Ministry and is a professional hospice and hospital chaplain in Clearwater, FL. Donnally is Vice President of Jockeys and Jeans, a group of former jockeys he helped start in 2014 that thus far has raised over $1 million for catastrophically injured jockeys through the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.
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