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Author : Samuel C. Hildreth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Spell of the Turf written by Samuel C. Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel C. HILDRETH (and CROWELL (James R.))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Spell of the Turf. The Story of American Racing ... With 32 Illustrations written by Samuel C. HILDRETH (and CROWELL (James R.)) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward L. Bowen
Publisher : Eclipse Press
ISBN 13 : 9781581500400
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Man O' War written by Edward L. Bowen and published by Eclipse Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as the greatest racehorse of all time, and more than half a century after his death his legend continues to grow. Mentioned with the same reverence as Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Red Grange. Winner of twenty races in twenty-one starts. His sons and daughters continue to influence the Thoroughbred breed today.
Author : Samuel C. Hildreth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Spell of the Turf written by Samuel C. Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ed Hotaling
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603504
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book They're Off! written by Ed Hotaling and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As much social history as sports history, this is an account of how America's first national resort, Saratoga Springs, gave birth to and nurtured its first national sport and in the process had significant impact on American cultural life. Fine bandw photographs, etchings, and drawings illustrate the text. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Town & Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim Wickens
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 059349671X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)
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.
Author : Jon BEE (pseud. [i.e. John Badcock.])
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Slang. A dictionary of the turf. Sportsman's Slang. A new dictionary of terms used in the affairs of the turf ... Editio altera, etc. With illustrations written by Jon BEE (pseud. [i.e. John Badcock.]) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. H. Godfrey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Field Illustrated written by A. H. Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Shrager
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493018892
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
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.
Author : James C. Nicholson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813180651
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
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 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 20, 1923, at New York's Belmont Park, Kentucky Derby champion Zev toed the starting line alongside Papyrus, winner of England's greatest horse race, the Epsom Derby. The $100,000 purse for the novel intercontinental showdown was the largest in the history of America's oldest sport and writers across the country were calling it the "Race of the Century." A victory for the American colt in this blockbuster event would change how the nation viewed horse racing forever. In this book, James C. Nicholson exposes the central role of politics, money, and ballyhoo in the Jazz Age resurgence of the sport of kings. Though the Zev-Papyrus face-off was one of the most hyped sporting events of the early twentieth century, Nicholson reveals that it soon faded from American popular memory when it became known that Zev's owner, oil tycoon Harry F. Sinclair, was involved in an infamous scandal to defraud the United States of millions of barrels of publicly owned oil. As a result, Zev became an apt mascot for a nation struggling to reconcile its traditional values with the modern complexities of the Roaring Twenties, and his tainted legacy ultimately proved to be incompatible with tenets of national mythology that celebrate America as a place where hard work and fair play lead to prosperity.
Author : Eliza McGraw
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466872721
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Here Comes Exterminator! written by Eliza McGraw and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Seabiscuit and The Eighty-Dollar Champion, Eliza McGraw tells the story of how a gangling, long-shot Kentucky Derby winner named Exterminator became one of the most beloved racehorses of all time. The father of the Kentucky Derby called him “the greatest all-around Thoroughbred in American racing history.” Sportswriter Grantland Rice simply called him “the greatest racehorse.” Here Comes Exterminator! draws readers into the golden age of racing, with all its ups and downs, the ever-involving interplay of horses and people, and the beauty, grace, fear, and hope that are a daily part of life at the track. Caught between his hotheaded millionaire owner and his knowledgeable trainer, Exterminator captured fans’ affection with his personality, consistency, athleticism, and heart. Exterminator’s staggering success would dramatically change the world of horse-racing. He challenged the notion that American horses would never live up to Europe’s meticulously charted bloodlines and became a patriotic icon of the country after World War I. And his longevity established him as one of the public’s most beloved athletes, paving the way for equine celebrities like Seabiscuit and showing Americans they could claim—and love—a famous racehorse as their own.
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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Library World written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spur written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Library World written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amelia King Buckley
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813162300
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Keeneland Association Library written by Amelia King Buckley and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A research center for Thoroughbred racing, breeding, and related subjects, the Keeneland Association Library is located at Keeneland Race Course near Lexington, Kentucky. Amelia King Buckley, who became librarian in 1953, has compiled an alphabetical author listing of the titles in this unique collection as of June 1, 1958. Begun in 1939 with a gift of 2,000 volumes from William Arnold Hanger, the library has grown with the addition of other gifts and purchases, and now comprises one of the finest collections in its field. The published catalog includes more than 900 monograph titles, more than 100 serial titles, selected sales catalogs, private studbooks, bound pamphlets, and a small amount of manuscript material. The volume is illustrated with photographs from the library's remarkable collection of 15,000 negatives taken by the late Charles Christian Cook, one of the first American photographers to specialize in racing scenes.
