Book Signing: Patrick Smithwick, author of "Flying Change" - 08/01/2013

Patrick Smithwick will be signing his award winning book "Flying Change"

Patrick Smithwick, a jockey who lives in Monkton, Md., outside Baltimore, won the seventh annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award given to the best book about horse racing.

Smithwick won for “Flying Change,” a memoir about his return to steeplechase racing after a 25-year hiatus. The book chronicles the nine months of training for and competing in the 1999 Hunt Cup and is a sequel to his 2006 memoir “Racing My Father.” Smithwick is the son of legendary steeplechaser A.P. Smithwick

Come meet Patrick in the Museum lobby.  Copies of his book will be available for purchase in the NMR gift shop.