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Book Synopsis I Got the Horse Right Here by : Joseph James Reisler
Download or read book I Got the Horse Right Here written by Joseph James Reisler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burned out by working the baseball beat for years, in the summer of 1922 Damon Runyon was looking for a new sport to cover for The New York American as a change of pace. Having pilloried golf just a few years before, he went to Saratoga that August to sample horse racing and found that “There, right in front of him, were so many of the characters he so loved from his time covering the comings and goings of the Manhattan night crowd.” This was just the tonic Runyon needed to emerge from his malaise. Runyon didn’t just cover the great races and which horse won: he would get to the track days before and roam along the backstretch, speaking with the trainers, the gamblers, the rich owners, and the wise guys, many of which became model characters in his fiction and in the musical Guys and Dolls. This book collects the best of Runyon’s horse racing columns to 1936, when he moved on to other beats.
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by :
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Kentucky Derby by : James C. Nicholson
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.
Download or read book The Independent written by Leonard Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-05-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book War Admiral written by Edward L. Bowen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man o' War didn't compete in the1920 Kentucky Derby because owner Sam Riddle thought the distance was too long for a young three-year-old. But nearly two decades later, Riddle had a change of heart. In 1937, he agreed to run War Admiral, a son of the great Man o' War, at Churchill Downs. War Admiral went on to sweep the Triple Crown and established himself as Man o' War's best racing son. Veteran racing historian Edward L. Bowen, biographer of Man o' War, chronicles the exploits of War Admiral, including the colt's historic battle with the great Seabiscuit and War Admiral's success at stud.
Book Synopsis Letters from Country Life by : Josh Pons
Download or read book Letters from Country Life written by Josh Pons and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Pons, a third-generation horseman and owner of Country Life Farm, depicts a century of life inside the horse business, written from inside the fences of Maryland’s oldest Thoroughbred farm. In 2016, in the basement of his farmhouse, Josh Pons discovered thousands of letters from his grandfather’s life in the Thoroughbred horse business. The son of a French cook who came to New York City in 1894, Adolphe Pons got his start working in the Fifth Avenue mansion of Gilded Age banker August Belmont II. Adolphe became his personal secretary, and later played a major role in Belmont’s breeding and sale of the most famous horse in history: Man o’ War. During the Great Depression, Adolphe left New York and bought a hundred-acre horse farm in Maryland, naming it Country Life after the station stop on the Long Island Railroad nearest his Garden City home. In serial form, Josh Pons expands on the column he wrote for the leading horse publication The BloodHorse, inviting readers to once more step into the attic garret alongside him as he recovers long-lost voices speaking out of letters, telegrams, and photos. Upon the attic stage appear Gilded Age tycoons from whom the author’s grandfather bought and sold horses against the backdrop of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. As Josh draws from the farmhouse’s rich archive, he chronicles his grandfather’s life and times and shares his own candid reflections. The result is a fascinating and fresh look at the Golden Age of Horse Racing and how the past influences our present.
Book Synopsis The Lucky Thirteen by : Edward L. Bowen
Download or read book The Lucky Thirteen written by Edward L. Bowen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season). Veteran turf writer and racing historian Edward L. Bowen takes us through the rich history of one of the most formidable and exciting challenges in all of sport. Bowen covers the trainers, owners, and jockeys who etched their names into the annals of thoroughbred racing, and the “lucky thirteen” who captured all three jewels of the Triple Crown, racing’s most prestigious prize.
Book Synopsis The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by : Henry Hall
Download or read book The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports written by Henry Hall and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thoroughbred Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a statistical issue (title varies slightly) 1947-
Download or read book Man o' War written by Edward L. Bowen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man o’ War has been acclaimed as the greatest racehorse of all time, and nearly three-quarters of a century after his death his legend continues to grow. In Man o’ War, veteran racing historian Edward L. Bowen recounts the life and times of “Big Red.” Bowen traces not only Man o’ War’s life but also those of the people connected to him—his breeder, August Belmont II; his trainer, Louis Feustel; and his famed owner, Samuel D. Riddle—weaving their stories into that of the great horse. Man o’ War became the greatest sports hero of his era, mentioned with the same reverence as Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Red Grange. Man o’ War’s legend began at age two when he won nine of ten starts. Due to his great popularity, his only loss was surrounded by rumor and intrigue. Man o’ War never knew defeat again. He dominated his rivals at every turn, even winning one race by a recorded 100 lengths. Retired to stud in Kentucky, Man o’ War welcomed tens of thousands of fans to Faraway Farms where faithful groom Will Harbut would regale visitors with tales of Man o’ War’s exploits. The sons and daughters of Man o’ War—including Triple Crown winner War Admiral—and their descendants carry on his legend in the Thoroughbred breed today. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Book Synopsis Legacies of the Turf by : Edward L. Bowen
Download or read book Legacies of the Turf written by Edward L. Bowen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the careers of the men and women who bred the most outstanding Thoroughbreds of the 20th century.
Download or read book Town & Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ARTnews written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunny Jim written by Jimmy Breslin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative portrait of the Triple Crown–winning racehorse trainer: “sportswriting as good as it could ever possibly be” (New York Daily News). At seventy-seven, James “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons should have been considering retirement. His six-decade career stretched back to 1885, when, as an eleven year-old, he began working as a stable boy. After failing as a jockey, Fitzsimmons—or Mr. Fitz to those in the know—started training horses, eventually winning three Kentucky Derbys, two Triple Crowns, and more than two thousand races. But by 1951, glory seemed to be behind him. His wife’s sudden death took the light from his eyes, and retirement loomed. And then he met Nashua. She was the kind of horse trainers dream of. Big, powerful, with a windpipe that could suck down enough air to keep her running for weeks. Mr. Fitz knew he had a winner. It was only a matter of time before he realized that he had also just met the most remarkable horse of his long, storied career. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Book Synopsis Hunting in the United States and Canada by : Alexander Henry Higginson
Download or read book Hunting in the United States and Canada written by Alexander Henry Higginson and published by Garden City [N.Y.] : Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1928 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-05-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
