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Dorothy Ours

Scratching that Thoroughbred horse racing history itch.

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Summer of Swaps

The 1956 Hollywood Gold Cup

“I’m still convinced he’d beat Nashua. That loss last year was a fluke.”

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#TBT The Meadow

Shadows of Riva Ridge and Secretariat

It’s almost like a ghost of a ghost, now … but a few original buildings from Christopher T. Chenery’s The Meadow farm linger at what is now Meadow Event Park near Doswell, Virginia. Recently, on the wa...

9 days ago
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Man o’ War and The Big A

Walter Farley's Gateway

Dedication:

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#TBT: Big A+ on the Fourth of July

Not from Riva Ridge’s Brooklyn Handicap, but a similar atmosphere. (Aqueduct vintage postcard image courtesy of CM Postcards on eBay.)

After 132 wonderfully colorful years, Fate cut the thread of live racing at Aqueduct in Queens, New York...

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Armed with Calumet

The 1946 Suburban Handicap

Calumet Farm stands high among Thoroughbred racing’s all-time owners. Eight Kentucky Derby wins. Two Triple Crowns. Eleven homebreds elected to the Hall of Fame. But only once did Calumet win New York’s historic...

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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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