epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Tony Byles

I hereby solemnly declare that I cut the under jaw from Leander in the presence of several persons, not at the request of Mr. Forth, but thinking, as the horse ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Guy Griffith & Michael Oakeshott

1919 Grand Parade 33-1 Never ran as a three-year-old before the Derby See two-year-old career 1920 Spion Kop 100-6 Kempton. May. Spelthorne Three-year-old Plate. 11/2 miles. Won. 6 lengths. 8-11 ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-12 | Author:McGinniss, Joe [McGinniss, Joe]

11 On the afternoon of Thursday, August 14, a massive power failure struck the eastern United States. Racing was disrupted for only half an hour, but elsewhere in Saratoga Springs ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-26 | Author:Natalie Keller Reinert [Reinert, Natalie Keller]

The High Line was crowded, but that was expected; the park was always packed these days, whatever the weather. It had been added to tourist checklists alongside the Statue of ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-18 | Author:Edward Bowen [Edward Bowen]

Chapter 4: What A Marve l A magnificent two-year-old is a magnificent two-year-old for one of two reasons: Either he is extraordinarily precocious, virtually as developed at two as he ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Hoysted

Bold Personality was in a deeply distressed state as, to varying degrees, were the two blokes standing around him. Hayden Haitana was thoroughly drenched, as was the horse, but in ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Ercel Ellis Jr.

COALTOWN I drove out to Keeneland to see the 1948 Blue Grass Stakes. I wanted to see Coaltown, the colt everybody was talking about, but I was rooting for Dixiana’s ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-05 | Author:Foster Ockerman Jr.

LEXINGTON TRACKS To say that there was a racetrack on every block of early Lexington would not be entirely accurate; but it would not be far from the truth. The ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:Lara Prior-Palmer

XXII It was 1968 when Aunt Lucinda went mute for a school term. She was fifteen years old. Apparently she wouldn’t even talk to friends. Her mother, my grandmother Gaga, ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Lara Prior-Palmer

XXII It was 1968 when Aunt Lucinda went mute for a school term. She was fifteen years old. Apparently she wouldn’t even talk to friends. Her mother, my grandmother Gaga, ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Nack

Dressed in a shiny blue trench coat, puffing a cigarette in a box seat, Lucien Laurin sat down and waited for the coming of the seventh. “I took a tranquilizer ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christopher McGrath

No racecourse in Ireland, except Punchestown and Fairyhouse, ever had more people on it. Old men and women who had never before seen a race came 50 miles. The city ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Kevin Chong

10 Learn Another Language AN INTERMINABLE MONTH, the plumpest patch of summer, passes between races for my horse. During this once-a-year spasm of uninterrupted sunshine in Vancouver, it’s as if ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Jane Smiley [Jane Smiley]

I came to see that a clever horse is one who can open gates and pick up small pieces of carrot that he can’t see. An intelligent horse is a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Eng

No matter how you slice it, the favorite wins one out of three races. No ifs, ands, or buts. One thing you can decide is when the race has a ...