Garrett Gomez was winning races, making money and building a career. At the same time, parts of his life were coming apart.

In this candid conversation with biographer Rodolfo Alvarado, Garrett looks back on racing success, marriage, fatherhood, heavy drinking, cocaine, and the increasingly difficult task of keeping his public and private lives separate. The jockey was climbing while the man was struggling. Eventually, Garrett began running out of tricks—and discovered that success could tell the world he was doing well without telling him whether he really was.