Before there was Garrett Gomez the champion jockey, there was a boy growing up around horses who seemed destined to ride.

In this first recorded conversation with biographer Rodolfo Alvarado, Garrett looks back on his childhood, his father, the racetrack, and the experiences that set him on the path toward becoming one of racing's greatest jockeys. It is where their conversations—and the remarkable story that would eventually become Garrett's Gift—begin.