Author: Brenda Wahler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439668736
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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For centuries, on prairie grasslands, dusty streets and racing ovals, everyday Montanans participated in the sport of kings. More than a century after horses arrived in the region, Lewis and Clark's Nez Perce guides staged horse races at Traveler's Rest in 1806. In response to hazardous street races, the Montana legislature granted communities authority to ban "immoderate riding or driving." Helena led the way to respectable racing, with Madam Coady's fashion course hosting the first territorial fair in 1868. Soon, leading citizens like Marcus Daly built oval tracks and glitzy grandstands. By 1890, a horse named Bob Wade set a world record for a quarter mile in Butte, a mark that stood until 1958. Horsewoman and historian Brenda Wahler highlights the Big Sky's patrons of the turf and courageous equine champions, including Kentucky Derby winner Spokane.
Author: Montana Board of Horse Racing
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Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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Author: Montana Board of Horse Racing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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Author: Montana
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Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Author: Catharine Melin Moser
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806195908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In Gilded-Age Montana, three former frontiersmen turned from speculation in minerals to speculation in Thoroughbred horses. The rest is horse racing history...or would be if the story had ever been written. When Montana Outraced the East retrieves the largely forgotten late nineteenth-century golden age of the Montana Thoroughbred industry, when Montana horses won some of the biggest prizes in American horse racing, confounding national sportswriters and threatening to reshape the balance of power within America’s oldest sport. This book introduces readers to larger-than-life characters like silver baron Noah Armstrong, pioneer banker Samuel Larabie, and “Copper King” Marcus Daly, each pursuing his passion for horses by studying pedigrees, importing blue-blooded stock, and turning them loose on native grasses under Montana's big sky. Where one observer saw "verist madness" in the enterprise, another sports journalist foresaw a not-too-distant day when Montana would "rival the worlds of old Yorkshire and the Blue-Grass region of Kentucky in the fame and celebrity of its racehorses." And indeed, in due time the Montana horsemen were fielding equine stars like Spokane, winner of the 1889 Kentucky Derby; Scottish Chieftain, winner in the 1897 Belmont Stakes; and Ogden, the "Horse of Mystery" that rocked the eastern racing establishment by taking the 1896 Futurity at odds of 150 to 1. Catharine Melin-Moser recreates the thrilling era when, through the shrewd foresight, hustle, and luck that had made them millionaires, Montana entrepreneurs made a lasting mark on American horse racing. In telling their story, her book restores a significant and thoroughly captivating chapter to American Thoroughbred racing history.
Author: Montana. State Horse Racing Commission
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Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Author: Montana
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Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Sneed B. Collard
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ISBN: 9780984446001
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Explores the drama and history of one of the West's premier rodeo and cultural events, the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale. Begun in 1951 as a way to sell "spoiled" and unruly ranch horses for use in rodeos, the sale has evolved into a four-day celebration that features horse racing, country music, a parade, and rodeo riding. Includes more than 60 photographs.
Author: Montana. Legislature. Legislative Audit Division
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Category : Fantasy sports
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Stan Cohen
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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