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Book Synopsis The American Racing Manual 2003 by : Steve Davidowitz
Download or read book The American Racing Manual 2003 written by Steve Davidowitz and published by Daily Racing Form Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Manual is the most in-depth Thoroughbred racing guidebook available. Considered the Bible of Thoroughbred racing since its inception more than a century ago, the ARM is finally available through mainstream bookstores.
Download or read book The American Racing Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Great Sweepstakes of 1877 by : Mark Shrager
Download or read book The Great Sweepstakes of 1877 written by Mark Shrager and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877 the members of the United States Senate postponed all business for the day so that they might attend a horse race—the iconic, polarizing post-Civil War event at the center of this story. The nation, still recovering from the depredations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction that followed, recognized it as a North vs. South encounter, pitting New York’s powerful thoroughbred Tom Ochiltree and New Jersey’s Parole—owned by the ostentatious Northern tycoons Pierre and George Lorrilard—against the already legendary “Kentucky crack,” Ten Broeck—owned by the teetotaling, plain-living Frank Harper and ridden by black jockey and former slave William Walker—representing a former slave state and its Southern values. The race and the colorful cast of characters involved reflected the still seething America during one of the nation’s most difficult and divisive periods. Shrager presents a fascinating and heart-pounding piece of history exposing the racial and economic tensions following the Civil War that culminated in one final race to the end.
Download or read book Bill Hartack written by Bill Christine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Hartack won the Kentucky Derby five times, and seemed to hate every moment. "If only Bill could have gotten along with people the way he got along with horses," a trainer said. His impoverished upbringing didn't help: his mother was killed in an automobile accident; the family home burned down; his father was murdered by a girlfriend; and he was estranged from his sisters for most of his life. Larry King, his friend, said it was just as well Hartack never married, because it wouldn't have lasted. Hartack was one of racing's most accomplished jockeys. But he was an inveterate grouch and gave the press a hard time. At 26, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Whenever the media tried to bury him, he would win another Derby. At the end of his life, he was found alone in a cabin in the Texas hinterlands. Drawn from dozens of interviews and conversations with family members, friends and enemies, this book provides a full account of Hartack's turbulent life.
Book Synopsis American Classic Pedigrees (1914-2002) by : Avalyn Hunter
Download or read book American Classic Pedigrees (1914-2002) written by Avalyn Hunter and published by Eclipse Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a monumental and important work for the Thoroughbred industry, author and pedigree researcher Avalyn Hunter provides extensive pedigree analysis of every American classic race winner from 1914 through 2002.
Book Synopsis Sports Illustrated: Almanac 2003 by : Editors of Sports Illustrated
Download or read book Sports Illustrated: Almanac 2003 written by Editors of Sports Illustrated and published by Sports Illustrated. This book was released on 2002-11-27 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features essays, player profiles, and statistics for the 2002 sports year, covering football, baseball, hockey, tennis, boxing, and other sports; and includes coverage of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games, and month-by-month event listings for 2003.
Book Synopsis Standard Catalog of Ferrari 1947-2003 by : Mike Covelllo
Download or read book Standard Catalog of Ferrari 1947-2003 written by Mike Covelllo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ferrari is simply the world's best known and most desirable pure bred sports car. Everyone knows Ferrari as the ultimate exotic, yet they may not know the individual models and details behind them. This is the first book of its kind to showcase every Ferrari road car since 1947, complete with technical specs, options and production numbers, all in full color. This reference sorts out the various engine families from the original 4 cylinders through the quintessential V-12s, plus model naming and numbering, special models, and unique facts. Standard Catalog of Ferrari: 1947-2003 includes an exclusive 6 condition price guide from the editors of Old Cars Price Guide."
Book Synopsis Kentucky Handicap Horse Racing by : Melanie Greene
Download or read book Kentucky Handicap Horse Racing written by Melanie Greene and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a handicap, horses are assigned weights based on their past performances as a way to try to create evenly matched fields. The better the horse, the heavier the weight assigned. In the United States, handicaps once accounted for the majority of stakes races and were known to boast large purses attracting the leading horses of the day. Kentucky-bred horses such as Discovery, Equipoise and Kelso won under the heaviest of weights, dominating the handicap division year after year, and were immortalized in the hall of fame. These equine stars brought recognition to the Sport of Kings and became renowned athletes for their courage, fortitude and durability. Join author and turf historian Melanie Greene as she recounts the harrowing tales of these noble steeds.
Book Synopsis "Code of Massachusetts regulations, 2003" by :
Download or read book "Code of Massachusetts regulations, 2003" written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival snapshot of entire looseleaf Code of Massachusetts Regulations held by the Social Law Library of Massachusetts as of January 2020.
Book Synopsis Out of the Clouds by : Linda Carroll
Download or read book Out of the Clouds written by Linda Carroll and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen. In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in "The Sport of Kings," a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed "The People's Horse" captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the Clouds -- the winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award -- unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.
Download or read book Lexington written by Kim Wickens and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse The powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous Civil War–era South, and became the most successful sire in American racing history The early days of American horse racing were grueling. Four-mile races, run two or three times in succession, were the norm, rewarding horses who brandished the ideal combination of stamina and speed. The stallion Lexington, named after the city in Kentucky where he was born, possessed these winning qualities, which pioneering Americans prized. Lexington shattered the world speed record for a four-mile race, showing a war-torn nation that the extraordinary was possible even in those perilous times. He would continue his winning career until deteriorating eyesight forced his retirement in 1855. But once his groundbreaking achievements as a racehorse ended, his role as a sire began. Horses from his bloodline won more money than the offspring of any other Thoroughbred—an annual success that led Lexington to be named America’s leading sire an unprecedented sixteen times. Yet with the Civil War raging, Lexington’s years at a Kentucky stud farm were far from idyllic. Confederate soldiers ran amok, looting freely and kidnapping horses from the top stables. They soon focused on the prized Lexington and his valuable progeny. Kim Wickens, a lawyer and dressage rider, became fascinated by this legendary horse when she learned that twelve of Thoroughbred racing's thirteen Triple Crown winners descended from Lexington. Wickens spent years meticulously researching the horse and his legacy—and with Lexington, she presents an absorbing, exciting account that transports readers back to the raucous beginning of American horse racing and introduces them to the stallion at its heart.
Book Synopsis Never Say Die by : James C. Nicholson
Download or read book Never Say Die written by James C. Nicholson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the American horse that won Britain’s greatest race and changed the Thoroughbred racing world. A quarter of a million people braved miserable conditions at Epsom Downs on June 2, 1954, to see the 175th running of the prestigious Derby Stakes. Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Winston Churchill were in attendance, along with thousands of Britons who were all convinced of the unfailing superiority of English bloodstock and eager to see a British colt take the victory. They were shocked when a Kentucky-born chestnut named Never Say Die galloped to a two-length triumph at odds of 33–1, winning Britain’s greatest race and beginning an important shift in the world of Thoroughbred racing. Never Say Die traces the history of this extraordinary colt, beginning with his foaling in Lexington, Kentucky, as well as the stories of the influential individuals brought together by the horse and his victory?from the heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune to the Aga Khan. Most fascinating is the tale of Mona Best of Liverpool, England, whose well-placed bet on the long-shot Derby contender allowed her to open the Casbah Coffee Club. There, her son met musicians John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, later joining their band. Featuring a foreword by the original drummer for the Beatles, Pete Best, this remarkable book reveals how an underdog’s surprise victory played a part in the formation of the most successful and influential rock band in history and made the Bluegrass region of Kentucky the center of the international Thoroughbred industry. Praise for Never Say Die “Nicholson has done a very fine job of placing the unique role of Never Say Die in perspective within the specific confines of Thoroughbred racing history, while at the same time explaining how this horse was touched by a vivid array of characters in other social and historical contexts. Who would have imagined that a racehorse would link such diverse institutions as the Singer sewing machine company, the Epsom Derby, and the Beatles?” —Edward L. Bowen, author of The Lucky Thirteen “As a reader, I was left with a clear understanding of how the breeding industry has gone global, and importantly, how it will always follow the money. Racing enthusiasts will enjoy how the author sews together this unusual patchwork of characters into a narrative.” —John Eisenberg, author of The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America’s First Sports Spectacle “[E]nlightening and entertaining. . .Nicholson’s tale of close connections and global links is a yarn worth following.” —Wall Street Journal
Book Synopsis ESPN Sports Almanac 2003 by : Michael Morrison
Download or read book ESPN Sports Almanac 2003 written by Michael Morrison and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2002-11-29 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestselling sports almanac is the ultimate resource for sports professionals and fans everywhere. ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports, once again joins forces with Information Please(R) to bring enthusiasts the most authoritative sports reference book ever published. Whether they're looking for new world records, updating their trivia knowledge, or curious about the most intriguing sports stories of the past year, sports fans will welcome the latest edition of this bestselling almanac, and ESPN fans will find familiar segments from many of ESPN's outlets, including studio shows, radio, online, ESPN The Magazine, as well as: --In-depth statistics from ESPN's award-winning "Inside the Numbers" --Top Ten moments from each sport --Exclusive essays and analysis from your favorite ESPN personalities, including Chris Berman, Dan Patrick, Stuart Scott, Rich Eisen, and more --Hundreds of photographs --Thousands of graphics and tables --Fast access to all the facts: world records, champions, year-by-year, sport-by-sport --Full recap of the World Series, World Cup, and Ryder Cup --The ultimate resource for sports professionals and fans everywhere, the ESPN Information Please(R) Sports Almanac is clearly the champion in its field.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Horse of All by : Charles Justice
Download or read book The Greatest Horse of All written by Charles Justice and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Irvin and Rosa" is a granddaughter's recounting of her grandparents' life journey. Along the way the remembrance is both poignant and amusing as it chronicles the mores of a family in a southeast Pennsylvania town.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets by : Donald B. Hausch
Download or read book Handbook of Sports and Lottery Markets written by Donald B. Hausch and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its basic empirical research and investigation of pure theories of investment in the sports and lottery markets make this volume a winner. These markets are simpler to study than traditional financial markets, and their expected values and outcomes are uncomplicated. By means of new overviews of scholarship on the industry side of racetrack and other betting markets to betting exchanges and market efficiencies, contributors consider a variety of sports in countries around the world. The result is not only superior information about market forecasting, but macro- and micro-analyses that are relevant to other markets. - Easily studied sports markets reveal features relevant for more complex traditional financial markets - Significant coverage of sports from racing to jai alai - New studies of betting exchanges and Internet wagering markets
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America by : Gary S. Cross
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America written by Gary S. Cross and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2004 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussed how Americans spend their free time and entertain themselves. Essays present perspectives in the fields of American and cultural studies, sociology, recreation, sports, leisure studies, auctions, bloodsports, shopping malls, and theme parks.
