Scratching that Thoroughbred horse racing history itch.
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#TBT Before the Breeders’ Cup
Breeders’ Cup World Championships season (this year Oct. 30-31 at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky) has me thinking of what came before BC. What autumn races mattered, way back when? How were champions chosen? And especially, what about two...
Americans in Paris
Career Boy and Fisherman Tackle the 1956 Arc
“We are now anxious to see if he can run uphill, downhill, clockwise and from a walking start.”
#TBT To Market, To Market, and A Derby Fight
Who woulda thunk it? The 1933 Kentucky Derby, with its infamous “fighting finish” between riders Don Meade and Herb Fisher, helped make one of the 20th century’s greatest racehorses. And 1930s/40s sports page cartoonists, catching reference...
Man o’ War in Sports Page Cartoons
At Stud
Man o’ War’s racing exploits made him a long-running star of sports page cartoons, but that wasn’t all. His success at stud only strengthened his most excellent reputation.
#TBT Gallant Gals
Back in the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, Thoroughbred fillies and mares made plenty of headlines. It wasn’t their fault that sports page cartoonists didn’t give them equal time. I searched for such worthies as Princess Doreen and Esposa without luck...
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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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