[PDF] Thoroughbred Champions eBook

Author : Blood-Horse, Inc
Publisher : Eclipse Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Horse racing
ISBN : 9781581500240

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Follows The Blood-Horse's Top 100 list, beginning with Man o' War in the No. 1 spot and ending with Blue Larkspur at No. 100.

Author : Drf Press
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Horse racing
ISBN : 9781932910025

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Each chapter tells the story of each champion's racing career, decade by decade, followed by past performances of these Thoroughbred legends. There is a chapter for each decade, recounting a few horses' careers and several memorable races, accompanied by pictures of horses in action and at rest, to celebrate and honor the greatest achievements of the Thoroughbred bloodline.

Author : Lisa J. Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1439660239

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Since the 1940s, forty racing champions have traveled the hallowed grounds at the historic Aiken Training Track. Thoroughbred icons such as Kelso, Tom Fool, Swale, Pleasant Colony, Conquistador Cielo and Shuvee trained at this world-renowned track. Numerous members of the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame won the biggest races in the sport. These champions combined for a total of 546 wins in 1,395 starts, including wins in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. Race along with author Lisa J. Hall as she pays homage to these equine champions and an Aiken legacy.

Author : Milton C. Toby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1614236690

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While Seabiscuit is perhaps the best-known Thoroughbred in history, Charles S. Howard owned another remarkable racehorse that should never be forgotten. Irish-bred Noor dominated the 1950 racing season, setting world records in victories over Citation and winning the Hollywood Gold Cup by defeating a Triple Crown winner, the Horse of the Year and the previous year's Kentucky Derby winner. Sadly, that fame faded as he failed to sire champions, and Noor was buried in an unmarked grave in Northern California decades later. Veteran turf writer Milt Toby recounts Noor's colorful career and the inspiring story of racing enthusiast Charlotte Farmer's personal mission to exhume the Thoroughbred's remains for reburial in central Kentucky years after the horse was inducted into the hall of fame.

Author : Susan Nusser
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0312569904

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From the foal barn to the racetrack, this book captures for the first time the behind-the-scenes drama of raising Kentucky Derby hopefuls by following three years in the lives of foals born during one week of the 2009 foaling season.

Author : Edward L. Bowen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493039687

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In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season). Veteran turf writer and racing historian Edward L. Bowen takes us through the rich history of one of the most formidable and exciting challenges in all of sport. Bowen covers the trainers, owners, and jockeys who etched their names into the annals of thoroughbred racing, and the “lucky thirteen” who captured all three jewels of the Triple Crown, racing’s most prestigious prize.

Author : Avalyn Hunter
Publisher : Eclipse Press
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781581500950

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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 :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Horse racing
ISBN : 9780964849396

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

Author : Peter Lee
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0813177839

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“Lee does a masterful job of telling the entire and real story of a racing star who overcame numerous obstacles . . . a book that you cannot put down!” —Brian Zipse, managing partner of Derby Day Racing On the morning of the 1979 Belmont Stakes, Spectacular Bid stepped on a safety pin in his stall, injuring his foot. He had impressively won the first two races—the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness—but finished third in the Belmont, most likely due to his injury, making him one win shy of becoming the sport’s third straight Triple Crown champion. But that loss did not prevent him from becoming one of horse racing’s greatest competitors. After taking two months to recover, the battleship gray colt would go on to win twenty-six of thirty races during his career, with two second-place finishes and one third. He was voted the tenth greatest Thoroughbred of the twentieth century according to Blood-Horse magazine, and A Century of Champions places him ninth in the world and third among North American horses—even ahead of the renowned Man o’ War. This horse biography tells the story of the honest and not-so-glamorous colorful characters surrounding the champion—including Bud Delp, the brash and cocky trainer who was distrustful of the Kentucky establishment, and Ron Franklin, the nineteen-year-old jockey who buckled under the stress and pressure associated with fame—and how they witnessed firsthand the splendor and triumphs of Spectacular Bid. Including contemporary newspaper accounts of Bid’s exploits and interviews with key players in his story, this is an encompassing look into the legacy of one of horse racing’s true champions.