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Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 1398

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Author: Joe Scalzo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610608770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Avalyn Hunter
Publisher: Eclipse Press
ISBN: 9781581500950
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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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.

Author: Daily Racing Form, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964849396
Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book is a groudbreaking and encyclopedic compendium of the greatest racehorses of the last 100 years.

Author: Bill Christine
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476663629
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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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.

Author: Steve Davidowitz
Publisher: Daily Racing Form Press
ISBN: 9780970014795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

Author: Mark Shrager
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493018892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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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: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 848

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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1274

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2278

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