Released

Released on: March 13, 2008, 10:02 am

Press Release Author: Yvette Robertson

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: Rudolph Valier Alvarado\'s biography on Joe Hernandez, the
Voice of Santa Anita, to be released on March 21, 2008.


Press Release Body: Los Angeles, CA -- Advanced copies of Rudolph Valier Alvarado\'s
biography, The Untold Story of Joe Hernandez: The Voice of Santa Anita, are
generating positive reviews indicating that the book is poised to become a best
seller. Joe was the beloved and legendary voice behind the great races of
Seabiscuit, as well as a number of other famous thoroughbreds. Before fainting at
the microphone on January 27, 1972, Joe had called 15,587 races in a row at Santa
Anita, a string that stretched back to when the track opened on Christmas Day 1934.
The book, to be released on March 21, has an accompanying website at
www.voiceofsantaanita.com. The biography comes with a CD containing some of Joe\'s
most memorable calls. The book generated such positive responses that Santa Anita
Park officials are hosting a book signing for Alvarado at the track on April 5 and
6. Alvarado became interested in the story behind Hernandez\'s life after coming
across Joe\'s name in Laura Hillendbrand\'s, Seabiscuit: An American Legend. Pete
Pedersen, the 2001 winner of the Eclipse of Merit Award and the Joe H. Palmer Award
of Merit from the New York Turf Writer\'s Association, remarked that Alvarado\'s
\"biography stands as a remarkable work of research.... The romance of horseracing,
the source of so much of its appeal, is given full marks.... But it\'s the subject,
Joe Hernandez, who emerges as a catalyst.... The book is a great read. For anyone
who wants to know what horseracing was-and is-it\'s a keeper! Joe Hernandez was
larger than life. This rendition paints the portrait.\"
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