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Dorothy Ours
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Spooky #TBT: Phar Lap Haunts the Empire State

Clippings from (L to R): photo in The Detroit News (Mich.), Oct. 2, 1932; headline from Dan Parker’s syndicated column in The Waterbury Democrat (Conn.), Sept. 14, 1932; photo in the Daily News (New York, N.Y.), Sept. 14, 1932; and headline...

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Kerry Patch’s 1932 Futurity

A Look Back for Breeders’ Cup Season

In 2019, Storm the Court won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at odds of 45 to 1. For sheer colorfulness in a juvenile summit meeting, however, Belmont Park’s 1932 Futurity is hard to beat. Imagine an owner w...

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#TBT Before the Breeders’ Cup:

Selima (bay mare, 1745-1766) was a legend from the dawn of Thoroughbreds. A daughter of foundation stallion the Godolphin Arabian (aka the Godolphin Barb), she voyaged from England to Maryland circa 1750, went undefeated in a brief racing c...

9 days ago
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Before the Breeders’ Cup:

Mata Hari’s 1933 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes

Following up on last Thursday’s throwback with Mata Hari . . . imagine ourselves back in a world where a top-tier race for 2-year-olds plays out in a way that would not happen in our Breeders’ C...

13 days ago
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#TBT Before the Breeders’ Cup

The Breeders’ Cup separates two-year-old males and females, but early 20th century U.S. racing often found them chasing the same jackpots. At the top, Belmont Park’s Futurity winners from 1905 through 1931 included the fillies Maskette, Ste...

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    Wanted to be a horse—turned out to be a writer. Thoroughbred racing history geek. Books "Man o' War” and "Battleship" with St. Martin's Press. Chapters in “The Racetracks of America" (Saratoga's National Museum of Racing, 2025).

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