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Author : Rolls-Royce Limited
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Four Derby Winners written by Rolls-Royce Limited and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Eisenberg
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813188563
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Longest Shot written by John Eisenberg and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the first Saturday in May every year in Louisville, Kentucky, shortly after 5:30 PM, a new horse attains racing immortality. The Kentucky Derby is like no other race, and its winners are the finest horses in the world. Covered in rich red roses, surrounded by flashing cameras and admiring crowds, these instant celebrities bear names like Citation, Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, and Seattle Slew. They're worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in 1992, a funny thing happened on the way to the roses. The rattling roar of 130,000 voices tailed off into a high, hollow shriek as the horses crossed the finish line. Lil E. Tee? ABC broadcasters knew nothing about him, but they weren't alone. Who knew about Lil E. Tee? A blacksmith in Ocala, Florida, a veterinary surgeon in Ringoes, New Jersey, a trainer a Calder Race Course, and a few other people used to dealing with average horses knew this horse—and realized what a long shot Lil E. Tee really was. On a Pennsylvania farm that raised mostly trotting horses, a colt with a dime-store pedigree was born in 1989. His odd gait and tendency to bellow for his mother earned him the nickname "E.T." Suffering from an immune deficiency and a bad case of colic, he survived surgery that usually ends a horse's racing career. Bloodstock agents dismissed him because of his mediocre breeding, and once he was sold for only $3,000. He'd live in five barns in seven states by the time he turned two. Somehow, this horse became one of the biggest underdogs to appear on the American sporting landscape. Lil E. Tee overcame his bleak beginnings to reach the respected hands of trainer Lynn Whiting, jockey Pat Day, and owner Cal Partee. After winning the Jim Beam stakes and finishing second in the Arkansas Derby, Lil E. Tee arrived at Churchill Downs to face a field of seventeen horses, including the highly acclaimed favorite, Arazi, a horse many people forecast to become the next Secretariat. A 17-to-1 longshot, Lil E. Tee won the Derby with a classic rally down the home stretch, and finally Pat Day had jockeyed a horse to Derby victory. John Eisenberg draws on more than fifteen years of sports writing experience and a hundred interviews throughout Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Florida, and Arkansas to tell the story almost nobody knew in 1992. Eisenberg is a sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun and has won more than twenty awards for his sports writing, including several Associated Press sports editors' first places."
Author : Jack C. Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780886823122
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Kentucky Derby written by Jack C. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Kentucky's famous horse race, which has run continuously since 1875. Includes stories about some of its most famous horses and jockeys.
Author : Bill Doolittle
Publisher : Life Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780737000320
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Kentucky Derby written by Bill Doolittle and published by Life Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the tradition and spectacle of the Kentucky Derby with photographs and text devoted to the legends, heroes, memorable moments, and rivalries of the past 125 years.
Author : Jim Bolus
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781565542075
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Derby Dreams written by Jim Bolus and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People in racing have to be dreamers," says Jim Bolus in the beginning of his fourth chronicle of the Kentucky Derby. The Derby itself has been dreamlike in its history. After nearly fading into oblivion at the turn of the century, the Kentucky Derby has grown into a national cultural institution and the premier annual horse race in America, if not the world. The stories about this great race and its participants have grown through the years. They have evolved into both heroic epics and much-maligned tragedies. The author relates the triumphant tale of Regret, the first filly to win the Derby on what was her very first start of the year. He also tells of Riley, who, in spite of a muddy track, won the first Kentucky Derby held in the rain. Some of the shattered Derby dreams are described as well. Included is the story of the tumultuous feud between horse owner Jim T. Williams and jockey Roscoe Troxler, whom Williams accused of throwing the 1911 race. The author entertains and informs with his Kentucky Derby tales of the dreams realized and the dreams never achieved at Churchill Downs.
Author : James C. Nicholson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813135761
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Kentucky Derby written by James C. Nicholson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a complete history of the Kentucky Derby, examining the tradition, spectacle, culture and evolution of an event that has marveled America--and the world--for more than 130 years.
Author : Jim Squires
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786730471
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Horse Of A Different Color written by Jim Squires and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody in the thoroughbred horse business wants to win the Kentucky Derby, but the odds on making it to the winner's circle at Churchill Downs are about 35,000-to-1. How did a former Chicago newspaper editor bring together the stallion and mare and breed the winner of the world's most famous and important horserace? Jim Squires's Horse of a Different Color tells the story of his wild ride from absurdity to glory at the pinnacle of horseracing success alongside Monarchos, the charismatic gray colt blessed with the extraordinary speed, poise, and stamina necessary to carry his motley band of human handlers to the highest level of their profession. Squires takes you on an exciting journey through the close-knit and secretive world of horse breeders, buyers, sellers, owners, and trainers. And his hilarious tour of racehorse culture ends with a blazing sprint down the homestretch of the second fastest Derby in history in the company of a crowd of Kentuckians driven mad with "Derby Fever."
Author : Thomas B. Merry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The American Thoroughbred written by Thomas B. Merry and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Sowers
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613273
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes written by Richard Sowers and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive history of thoroughbred racing's three premier events, which have never before been explored in such detail. This book gives the history of America's classic races from the inaugural Belmont Stakes in 1867 through 2013, identifying which equine participants were truly worthy of lasting acclaim and which were one-hit wonders. Perhaps even more compelling are the stories of the men and women who rode, trained, owned, or bred classic winners, including their exploits on the turf and their triumphs and failures in arenas far removed from horse racing.
Author : Milton C. Toby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625845030
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Cañonero II written by Milton C. Toby and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the months leading up to the 1971 Kentucky Derby, Canonero II was an unknown horse with a Venezuelan trainer who spoke only Spanish. The Derby "experts" laughed when an exercise boy rode the horse out on the track with no saddle or stirrups. But the laughter promptly ended when Canonero II charged to the front from twenty lengths back to win the Derby, followed by a victory at the Preakness Stakes in track record time. In recounting Canonero II's quest to become the first Triple Crown winner since Citation, award-winning turf historian Milt Toby tells the compelling story of how one man's wildly improbable dream became the dream of a nation and how a bargain-basement yearling born with a crooked front leg became the "people's horse."
Author : Jim Bolus
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455603497
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Derby Magic written by Jim Bolus and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . absorbing chapters trace the history of shipping horses by air and equine personalities from the lovable Buckpasser to the vious Nevele Pride . . . A delight for racing fans." -Publishers Weekly No one was more knowledgeable about the Kentucky Derby than Jim Bolus, Kentucky Derby curator of the Kentucky Derby Museum, which is located on the grounds of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. In this, his fifth Pelican book on the Derby, Bolus examines the mystique, the majesty, and the magic of the most popular horse race in the world through various essays. "The Bull and the Sunshine Boys" recalls the 1986 Derby, which was won by Ferdinand. On that magical day, Charlie Whittingham, seventy-three, and Bill Shoemaker, fifty-four, became the oldest trainer and jockey, respectively, to win the Kentucky Derby. Readers will learn the exciting story of the first Derby winner in the essay "Assault: The Little Horse with the Heart of a Giant." The essays, including "Horses Have Their Own Personalities" and "Diary of a Champion: Skip Away," all convey the magic of the Derby, somehow captured by author Jim Bolus.
Author : Isabel McLennan McMeekin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kentucky Derby Winner written by Isabel McLennan McMeekin and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story biography of a famous horse, Aristides, winner of the Kentucky derby in 1875.
Author : David L. Hudson
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597977365
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Horse Racing's Most Wanted written by David L. Hudson and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the sport of kings, horse racing has been around the track, so to speak. Out of the gates as early as ancient GreeceOCOs Olympic Games, racing would truly find its footing centuries later when Arabian horses were brought to England during the Crusades. Soon nobles with deep pockets were striking friendly wagers, and by Queen AnneOCOs reign, races with big purses were off and runningOCoand making their way across the pond. In the United States, horse racing has given the world of professional sportsOCoeven baseballOCoa run for its money. In Horse RacingOCOs Most WantedOao, readers will have the inside track on the sport that draws more than a million viewers every spring with the Triple Crown. Only eleven horses have swept this illustrious series in its 130-year history. Race alongside these near-mythical champions, the jockeys and trainers who spurred them on, and the many competitors who came, raced, but did not conquer. Whether or not itOCOs the Derby, this sport is exciting. Learn about the fastest fillies, oddest names, greatest tracks, studliest siresOCoand more. Author David L. Hudson Jr. returns to the Most WantedOao series with more than fifty lists that cover the sportOCOs surprising upsets, tragic falls, and photo-finish races. No matter if you win, place, or show, this book is a sure bet.
Author : Pamela K. Brodowsky
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006123656X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Two Minutes to Glory written by Pamela K. Brodowsky and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a front row seat at "the Run for the Roses" with the first comprehensive history of the Kentucky Derby. From mint juleps to the garland of roses, to weeping men and women in the Winner's Circle, Two Minutes to Glory is the official story of the world's greatest horse race—the Kentucky Derby. This book is chockablock with facts, figures, and statistics on all 132 years of this incredible race. It also contains a capsuled yet detailed history of the race and of Churchill Downs, focusing on all the larger-than-life personalities from Col. M. Lewis Clark, who founded the Derby in 1875, to Col. Matt Winn, who saved it when it was in the stretch, out of breath, about to break down, and in need of a miracle—and beyond that to the present day. But perhaps the best parts of this lavishly illustrated book are the stories of the races, from 1875 to 2006. It is not a mere recitation of what happened—though there is that—but the human (and horse) stories behind the races, like that of Conn McCreary, who, astride Count Turf in 1951, looked down the track before the gates opened and knew that he was riding not just to win the Derby, but for his life. Or the 2005 race where a seventy-nine-year-old woman named Alice Chandler burst into tears as she watched her 50-1 shot Giacomo roar down the stretch to win—but also cried because she knew that when just a foal, he had previously beaten an opponent called death. This book looks at all the people and horses who made the Derby what it is over the years: trainer Ben A. Jones with six Derby winners; Eddie "Banana Nose" Arcaro and Secretariat, who broke the two-minute barrier and ran the fastest Derby in history; the great owners, the grooms—and all the rest. It is history, yes, but history with heart and soul. As horsemen say, have a good ride.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federico Tesio
Publisher : The Russell Meerdink Company Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 0929346769
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Tesio written by Federico Tesio and published by The Russell Meerdink Company Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federico Tesio (1869-1954) is the most successful breeder of Thoroughbreds in the history of racing. The horses he bred at his Dormello Stud on the banks of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy continue to have a genetic impact on Thoroughbreds around the world.This new, faithful translation of Tesios 1947 work Puro-Sangue - Animale da Esperimento (The Pure Blood - An Animal of Experimentation) captures every idea and nuance of the original Italian text. In it, the reader will find this great breeders own views on genetics and the Thoroughbred as a hybrid, what he looks for in the first 64 ancestors of a horses pedigree, why heavily-raced horses rarely produce successful offspring, and more. He also shares his Law of Changeable Maximums and Law of Similar but not Identical.Federico Tesio has been the envy of racehorse breeders for generations. Now Tesio: In His Own Words can help unlock the secrets to his success.
Author : Henry Elliot Malden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Surrey written by Henry Elliot Malden and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
