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Book Synopsis Harness Racing in New York State by : Dean Hoffman
Download or read book Harness Racing in New York State written by Dean Hoffman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the eager stallion Messenger trotted off a boat from Europe in 1788, harness racing in America has been a popular sport, and nowhere is this truer than New York State. In the nineteenth century, harness racing attracted spectators from all walks of life. An 1823 race was so popular that businesses adjourned for the day to watch it. The sport reached its peak when the spectacular Roosevelt Raceway opened in 1957. Dean Hoffman offers an in-depth history of the sport's evolution in the Empire State, from the drivers and breeding to betting, legislation and accounts of the most exciting races. Join Hoffman as he sheds light on one of New York's most venerable sports traditions.
Book Synopsis The History of Harness Racing in New England by : Robert Temple
Download or read book The History of Harness Racing in New England written by Robert Temple and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England has played a prominent role in the history of harness racing in America. The greatest horses, owners, drivers and trainers competed here and the sport reached its height of popularity following the legalization of pari-mutuel wagering in the mid-1930's following 300 years of Puritanical resistance to gambling. Today harness racing is barely hanging on as a viable commercial entity. This book details the history of the sport, tracing its rise and near-final fall and the possible solution to saving it.
Download or read book Drivers Up written by Dwight Akers and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Harness Racing by : John Hervey
Download or read book American Harness Racing written by John Hervey and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Book of Harness Racing by : Philip A. Pines
Download or read book The Complete Book of Harness Racing written by Philip A. Pines and published by Arco. This book was released on 1982 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harness Racing in New York State by : Dean A. Hoffman
Download or read book Harness Racing in New York State written by Dean A. Hoffman and published by Sports. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the eager stallion Messenger trotted off a boat from Europe in 1788, harness racing in America has been a popular sport, and nowhere is this truer than New York State. In the nineteenth century, harness racing attracted spectators from all walks of life. An 1823 race was so popular that businesses adjourned for the day to watch it. The sport reached its peak when the spectacular Roosevelt Raceway opened in 1957. Dean Hoffman offers an in-depth history of the sport's evolution in the Empire State, from the drivers and breeding to betting, legislation and accounts of the most exciting races. Join Hoffman as he sheds light on one of New York's most venerable sports traditions.
Download or read book Harness Racing written by George Sullivan and published by Fleet Press Corporation. This book was released on 1964 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ainslie's New Complete Guide to Harness Racing by : Tom Ainslie
Download or read book Ainslie's New Complete Guide to Harness Racing written by Tom Ainslie and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1980 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pompano Park Harness Track by : Frank J. Cavaioli
Download or read book Pompano Park Harness Track written by Frank J. Cavaioli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the "Winter Capital of Harness Racing," Pompano Park has provided the only nighttime standardbred harness competition in Florida since its 1964 inaugural season. Prominent Kentucky horseman Frederick Van Lennep and his wife, Frances Dodge Van Lennep, built a $5.5-million track on the property of a failed 1926 thoroughbred track in Pompano Beach. Pompano Park has since hosted leading trainers, drivers, and champion horses, including Hall of Famers Stanley Dancer, Bill Haughton, and Delvin Miller and current leading drivers Bruce Ranger and Wally Hennessey. It also has been a mecca for celebrities who have enjoyed the racing action and entertainment.
Download or read book Crazy Good written by Charles Leerhsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the life story of a record-breaking champion horse whose disabilities nearly caused his euthanasia at birth, in an account that also describes the contributions of his shopkeeper owner and alcoholic driver. 50,000 first printing.
Download or read book Crazy Good written by Charles Leerhsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago, the most famous athlete in America was a horse. But Dan Patch was more than a sports star; he was a cultural icon in the days before the automobile. Born crippled and unable to stand, he was nearly euthanized. For a while, he pulled the grocer's wagon in his hometown of Oxford, Indiana. But when he was entered in a race at the county fair, he won -- and he kept on winning. Harness racing was the top sport in America at the time, and Dan, a pacer, set the world record for the mile. He eventually lowered the mark by four seconds, an unheard-of achievement that would not be surpassed for decades. America loved Dan Patch, who, though kind and gentle, seemed to understand that he was a superstar: he acknowledged applause from the grandstands with a nod or two of his majestic head and stopped as if to pose when he saw a camera. He became the first celebrity sports endorser; his name appeared on breakfast cereals, washing machines, cigars, razors, and sleds. At a time when the highest-paid baseball player, Ty Cobb, was making $12,000 a year, Dan Patch was earning over a million dollars. But even then horse racing attracted hustlers, cheats, and touts. Drivers and owners bet heavily on races, which were often fixed; horses were drugged with whiskey or cocaine, or switched off with "ringers." Although Dan never lost a race, some of his races were rigged so that large sums of money could change hands. Dan's original owner was intimidated into selling him, and America's favorite horse spent the second half of his career touring the country in a plush private railroad car and putting on speed shows for crowds that sometimes exceeded 100,000 people. But the automobile cooled America's romance with the horse, and by the time he died in 1916, Dan was all but forgotten. His last owner, a Minnesota entrepreneur gone bankrupt, buried him in an unmarked grave. His achievements have faded, but throughout the years, a faithful few kept alive the legend of Dan Patch, and in Crazy Good, Charles Leerhsen travels through their world to bring back to life this fascinating story of triumph and treachery in small-town America and big-city racetracks.
Book Synopsis The History of Harness Racing in New England by : Robert Temple
Download or read book The History of Harness Racing in New England written by Robert Temple and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England has played a prominent role in the history of harness racing in America. The greatest horses, owners, drivers and trainers competed here and the sport reached its height of popularity following the legalization of pari-mutuel wagering in the mid-1930's following 300 years of Puritanical resistance to gambling. Today harness racing is barely hanging on as a viable commercial entity. This book details the history of the sport, tracing its rise and near-final fall and the possible solution to saving it.
Book Synopsis Best There Ever Was by : Sharon B. Smith
Download or read book Best There Ever Was written by Sharon B. Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His winning percentage was well above Jordan’s shooting average or Woods’s domination of golf tournaments. And he sold products and drew spectators like no one had ever done. He was hands-down the most famous athlete in America’s most popular spectator sport, and exactly one hundred years ago you would have been hard pressed to find anybody in the country who didn’t know his name. He was Dan Patch, and he was a racehorse. At the turn of the last century, harness racing drew larger crowds and offered bigger paychecks than any other sport. Its stars were household names, and Dan Patch was both the most celebrated and the richest. As successful as he was on the track, Dan Patch was also America’s first “marketing machine”: the horse who could sell cigars, washing machines, stoves, automobiles, and animal feed, just by the presence of his name and photograph. The Best There Ever Was examines the evolution of sports marketing through the lives of Dan Patch and the three men who owned him: an Indiana breeder, Dan Messner; M. E. Sturgis, who sold the horse for $20,000 (a fortune in those days) and spent the rest of his life trying to buy him back; and Marion W. Savage of Minneapolis, whose entrepreneurial skills presaged today’s sports marketing geniuses. Any athlete who can draw a 90,000-person crowd, offer up world records, and then sell a coal stove with his name on it may well be the best by anybody’s standards. A fun and fascinating read for sports lovers.
Book Synopsis The New Care and Training of the Trotter and Pacer by : Curt Greene
Download or read book The New Care and Training of the Trotter and Pacer written by Curt Greene and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally only available through the U.S. Trotting Association, they have now appointed us to distribute this well-respected harness horseman's bible. Known around the world as the ultimate reference on Standardbred care and training, The New Care and Training of the Trotter and Pacer has proven to be as invaluable as it is popular.Subjects covered in detail include: -- Veterinary Issues -- Shoeing and Hoof Care -- Conditioning and Training -- Yearling Selection -- Racing Strategy -- Stable Management -- Nutrition -- Breeding & Bloodlines -- Equipment -- Breaking the YearlingEach chapter has something for everyone, including owners, trainers, race drivers, pleasure drivers, stable managers, grooms, or even just your basic horse-lover who wants to learn more about the Standardbred. Learn the ropes from such well-known greats as John Campbell, Robert McIntosh, Gene Riegle, Tommy Houghton and many others.The New Care and Training of the Trotter and Pacer is a complement to every library and an asset to anyone involved with horses.
Book Synopsis Harness The Winning by : Randy W. Brown
Download or read book Harness The Winning written by Randy W. Brown and published by tuttleshak. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make sure to check out Mr. Tuttle's blog site (http: //thetuttlemathpsm.com/), for winning picks and much more. Plus, it's a wonderful way to read some very lengthy excerpts of all seven of his horse handicapping books currently selling on Amazon.com. I'm publishing my findings; applied theories, and disciplined practices, for very selfish reasons. Go to www.thetuttleway.com to see more!
Book Synopsis Racing for America by : James C. Nicholson
Download or read book Racing for America written by James C. Nicholson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 20, 1923, at Belmont Park in New York, Kentucky Derby champion Zev toed the starting line alongside Epsom Derby winner Papyrus, the top colt from England, to compete for a $100,000 purse. Years of Progressive reform efforts had nearly eliminated horse racing in the United States only a decade earlier. But for weeks leading up to the match race that would be officially dubbed the "International," unprecedented levels of newspaper coverage helped accelerate American horse racing's return from the brink of extinction. In this book, James C. Nicholson explores the convergent professional lives of the major players involved in the Horse Race of the Century, including Zev's oil-tycoon owner Harry Sinclair, and exposes the central role of politics, money, and ballyhoo in the Jazz Age resurgence of the sport of kings. Zev was an apt national mascot in an era marked by a humming industrial economy, great coziness between government and business interests, and reliance on national mythology as a bulwark against what seemed to be rapid social, cultural, and economic changes. Reflecting some of the contradiction and incongruity of the Roaring Twenties, Americans rallied around the horse that was, in the words of his owner, "racing for America," even as that owner was reported to have been engaged in a scheme to defraud the United States of millions of barrels of publicly owned oil. Racing for America provides a parabolic account of a nation struggling to reconcile its traditional values with the complexity of a new era in which the US had become a global superpower trending toward oligarchy, and the world's greatest consumer of commercialized spectacle.
Author :Peter Joseph Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781495919664 Total Pages :32 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (196 download)
Book Synopsis The Ultimate Harness Racing Formula by : Peter Joseph
Download or read book The Ultimate Harness Racing Formula written by Peter Joseph and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through years of experimenting and altering the formula has produced more WINNERS, EXACTAS, TRIFECTAS, and SUPERFECTAS than ever before. And now after field testing the formula and reaping the rewards Joseph Peter has decided to share it. As you will find out, you don't need bogus tips and results from tipsters for 12 tracks. Instead, all you need is good information from one track to have a successful night. What does this translate to? Actually winning money.
