from TRACK Magazine: written by Ben Hudson said: June 5, 2013 7:30 pm PST
It appears that the fans at Les Bois Park are in for a real treat this
Saturday when Chris Kotulak and Thoroughbred Hall of Fame trainer
Jack Van Berg show up with their new book: JACK - From Grit To Glory.
As it turns out, Kotulak can do more that just talk into a microphone.
The story of the father-son Hall of Fame team of Marion and Jack Van
Berg is full of facts and testimony from the days at the tracks in Nebraska to
the winner’s circle after big races from the West Coast to the East Coast and
everywhere in between.
Kotulak, who was the best thing that ever happened to TVG and who
today is direly missed on their daily programming, grew up at the Nebraska
tracks where the Van Bergs wrote much of their early history. With the
help of several in the Van Berg family and many who were on the Van Berg
payroll, Kotulak tells this story the way no one else could.
There’s a lot of people in the book whose names you will recognize:
like Schvaneveldt, Lukas, Asmussen . . . and even Pumphrey, Carson,
Hudson and McAdams!
Blane Schvaneveldt’s long-time friends Duayne Didericksen and
Mark Brown had a lot to do with getting Van Berg and Kotulak to Les
Bois this weekend. And we hear that Brown is even going to take Kotulak
fly-fishing. We hope they send pictures.
If you’re interested in buying this very good book,
go to: www.jackfromgrittoglory.com.