Dorothy Ours - Man o' War and More
Dorothy OursScratching that Thoroughbred horse racing history itch.
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Saratoga Cold Case:
Secretariat's Sick Whitney
“Hardly a man is now alive
#TBT Drummond Lane
“Today’s Saratoga Selections” from Newsday Suffolk Edition (Melville N.Y.), Aug. 11, 1991.
Do you best remember some horses for how they didn’t win? Although he became a stakes winner, that’s how I think of Drummond Lane.
He was part of m...
Finding Saratoga
From Dream to Reality
Thirty-five years ago, I met Saratoga Race Course. A distant dream-place—glimpsed on T.V., in books, in magazines—became reality for this passionate racing fan. Due to camera malfunction, I didn’t get as many photos a...
#TBT Horse(player) Laughs
L to R: Clippings from The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), Aug. 7, 1991; the Daily News (New York, N.Y.), July 24, 1991; and the Daily News (N.Y., N.Y.), Aug. 13, 1994.
Preparing this Sunday’s piece about my first visit to Saratoga Race...
Unhidden Gem
Upset's Road to Man o' War
Wednesday, May 28, 1919, Henry V. King of the New York Herald reported on “a strapping big chestnut” colt at Belmont Park who “probably will turn out to be a champion.” But King wasn’t describing juvenile marvel...
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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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