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Sky Watch - Chasing An American Saddlebred Story

by Emma Hudelson

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 Horse shows used to draw crowds by the thousands to state fairs and venues such as Madison Square Garden. And in the 1980s, no performance horse filled more arena seats than the American Saddlebred Sky Watch. He pushed the saddle seat industry to a peak that hasn't been seen since. An athlete through and through, the stallion dominated the sport with the same power and intensity as a Kentucky Derby winner. With unmatched talent, Sky Watch earned four World Grand Championships and twelve World titles overall, making his career one for the history books. Years after Sky Watch finished competing, videos of his legacy in the ring captured the heart of author and lifelong horsewoman Emma Hudelson. Her fascination with the unstoppable stallion sent her on a journey to discover how a horse becomes a legend, convinced that if she can capture the magic behind the greatest show horse of all time, maybe she can understand her own obsession with Saddlebreds. Sky Watch: Chasing an American Saddlebred Story is not only the tale of a remarkable horse, but of the American Saddlebred breed and the way these horses carried one rider back to herself. Tracking the path of Sky Watch's success, Hudelson's book is a deeply personal homage to one of the sport's greatest show horses and the indelible impression he left on the breed and in the hearts of those who loved him.
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Dream Derby - The Myth And Legend Of Black Gold

by Avalyn Hunter

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 On the morning of May 18, 1924, households across America opened their newspapers to the headline: "Derby Winner Property of Indian Woman." The woman in question was Rosa Magnet Hoots, a member of the Oklahoma Osage Nation. The horse, draped in the iconic red roses signifying his victory in the fiftieth running of the Kentucky Derby, was Black Gold. In a sport defined by its exclusivity, the pair's unlikely appearance in the winner's circle set off a firestorm of speculation that would uncover an origin story stranger than fiction. Named for the oil that had been discovered in large quantities in Oklahoma at the time of his birth, Black Gold was born in 1921 to a mare named Useeit. At the start of her hard-knocking racing career, Useeit had been purchased by Al Hoots, for whom she won thirty-two of a staggering 122 races. What the mare lacked in regality, she made up for in gumption, a trait Hoots believed could propel her progeny to the hallowed ground of Churchill Downs. Hoots himself would never see Black Gold, dying unexpectedly in 1917. But the legend that came to define the horse would begin with him. Languishing in his deathbed, Hoots claimed to have a prophetic dream that a colt born to Useeit would win the Kentucky Derby. He extracted a promise from his wife, Rosa, to breed the mare to the stallion Black Toney. The decision, which came to fruition three years after Hoots's death, would set in motion a story that would forever change Thoroughbred racing. In Dream Derby: The Myth and Legend of Black Gold, author Avalyn Hunter explores the personalities and histories that surrounded Black Gold. Told against the backdrop of a make-or-break moment for American horse racing and politics at large and framed by the racial violence that rocked Tulsa in the 1920s, Black Gold's victory at the Golden Jubilee stands at the intersection of sport and history. Hunter's work looks behind every stall and tack room door and celebrates the hard work that goes into a great horse and its rivals.
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Unnatural Ability - The History Of Performance-Enhancing Drugs In Thoroughbred Racing

by Milton C. Toby

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 In a mere twelve months, between May 2020 and May 2021, horse racing's most recognizable face-Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert-had five horses that failed postrace drug tests. Among those was the 2021 Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit. While the incident was a major scandal in the Thoroughbred racing world, it was only the latest in a series of drug-related infractions among elite athletes. Stories about systemic rule-breaking and "doping culture"-both human and equine-have put world-class athletes and their trainers under intense scrutiny. Each newly discovered instance of abuse forces fans to question the participants' integrity, and in the case of horse racing, their humanity. In Unnatural Ability: The History of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Thoroughbred Racing, Milton C. Toby addresses the historical and contemporary context of the Thoroughbred industry's most pressing issue. While early attempts at boosting racehorses' performance were admittedly crude, widespread legal access to narcotics and stimulants has changed the landscape of horse racing, along with athletic governing bodies' ability to regulate it. With the sport at a critical turning point in terms of doping restrictions and sports betting, Toby delivers a comprehensive account of the practice of using performance-enhancing drugs to influence the outcome of Thoroughbred races since the late nineteenth century. Paying special attention to Thoroughbred racing's purse structure and its reliance on wagering to supplement a horse's winnings, Toby discusses how horse doping poses a unique challenge for gambling sports and what the industry and its players must do to survive the pressure to get ahead.
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Foxes Of Belair - Gallant Fox, Omaha, And The Quest For The Triple Crown

by Jennifer S. Kelly

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 Calumet, Claiborne, King Ranch-these iconic Thoroughbred breeders are revered by industry professionals and racing fans around the world. As campaigners of many of the twentieth century's top racehorses, these breeders' prestige has been confirmed by decades of competition in the Triple Crown, the most esteemed series in American Thoroughbred racing. Despite their substantial legacies, their success is measured against the benchmark set by one of racing's earliest dynasties, the historic Belair Stud.The story of this legendary operation begins with William Woodward's childhood trips to the racetrack, which inspired dreams of breeding a champion or two of his own. While working for the American ambassador to the United Kingdom, Woodward frequented English racetracks, rekindling his desire to breed and own champion Thoroughbreds. Woodward turned those dreams into reality, building Belair Stud on his family's Maryland estate, launching what would become the preeminent Thoroughbred breeding and racing empire in America, and chasing racing's biggest prizes in both the United States and England.The defining moment for Belair came when Woodward bred the imported stallion Sir Gallahad III to his mare Marguerite. Their colt, Gallant Fox, became the second horse in history to win the Preakness Stakes, the Kentucky Derby, and the Belmont Stakes in the same year, a feat known as winning the Triple Crown. In 1935, Gallant Fox's son, Omaha, duplicated his sire's trio of victories, a sweep that simultaneously cemented the farm's legacy and established the Triple Crown as the gold standard for three-year-olds.In The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown, Jennifer S. Kelly examines the racing legacies of Gallant Fox and Omaha and how Woodward's service to racing during the twentieth century forever changed the American Thoroughbred industry.
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Landaluce - The Story Of Seattle Slew'S First Champion

by Mary Perdue

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 When Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew retired from racing in 1978 to stand at stud at Spendthrift Farm, no one could be certain he would be a successful sire. But just four years later, his dark bay daughter Landaluce won the Hollywood Lassie Stakes by twenty-one lengths-a margin of victory that remains the largest ever in any race by a two-year-old at Hollywood Park. California horse racing had a new superstar, and Slew was launched on a stud career that would make him one of the most influential sires in North America. Like her father, Landaluce soon became a national celebrity, and was poised to become the next American super-horse. But those dreams ended when the two-year-old died in her stall at Santa Anita four months later, the victim of a swift and mysterious illness. Today, with her "I Love Luce" bumper stickers long gone, the filly has been largely forgotten.In Landaluce: The Story of Seattle Slew's First Champion, Mary Perdue tells the story of a horse whose short but meteoric career could have changed racing history forever. Sparking comparisons to Ruffian, Landaluce helped elevate California horse racing to the national stage and could have been the first filly to ever win the Triple Crown. Perdue explores the lives and careers of Landaluce's breeders, owners, and trainer, D. Wayne Lukas, as well as her famous sire, Seattle Slew-and shows not only how one filly captured the imagination of racing fans across the country, but also set the stage for another filly turned super-horse, Zenyatta, in the decades to come.Find out more at landalucebook.com
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Riding To Arms - A History Of Horsemanship And Mounted Warfare

by Charles Caramello

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 Horses and horsemen played central roles in modern European warfare from the Renaissance to the Great War of 1914-1918, not only determining victory in battle, but also affecting the rise and fall of kingdoms and nations. When Shakespeare's Richard III cried, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" he attested to the importance of the warhorse in history and embedded the image of the warhorse in the cultural memory of the West.In Riding to Arms: A History of Horsemanship and Mounted Warfare, Charles Caramello examines the evolution of horsemanship-the training of horses and riders-and its relationship to the evolution of mounted warfare over four centuries. He explains how theories of horsemanship, navigating between art and utility, eventually settled on formal manege equitation merged with outdoor hunting equitation as the ideal combination for modern cavalry. He also addresses how the evolution of firepower and the advent of mechanized warfare eventually led to the end of horse cavalry. Riding to Arms tracks the history of horsemanship and cavalry through scores of primary texts ranging from Federico Grisone's Rules of Riding (1550) to Lt.-Colonel E.G. French's Good-Bye to Boot and Saddle (1951). It offers not only a history of horsemen, horse soldiers, and horses, but also a survey of the seminal texts that shaped that history.
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Racing'S Return From The Brink - The Incredible Comeback Of Old Rosebud And American Horse Racing

by James C. Nicholson

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 At the dawn of the twentieth century, American horse racing clung to a precarious existence. A wave of antigambling legislation threatened to destroy the industry until one extraordinary Thoroughbred gelding, dubbed the "Miracle Horse" by the media, helped steer it away from extinction.In Racing's Return from the Brink, James C. Nicholson tells the story of Old Rosebud within the context of the volatile cultural and political environment of the early 1900s. Named for a brand of bourbon produced by his owners' family distillery, Old Rosebud set a track record when he won the 1914 Kentucky Derby by eight lengths. After sustaining an injury in his next race, Old Rosebud was sidelined for years before returning to the track, ultimately recording forty wins in a career that lasted until 1922. Meanwhile, opportune promotion from certain pillars of the Thoroughbred racing community sold policymakers and the public on the notion that horse racing was vital to US security at a time when the Mexican Revolution and World War I were still fresh in Americans' minds.Though his fame has since faded, Old Rosebud was one of the most talented racehorses of his era and was once among the most recognizable names in US sports. Racing's Return from the Brink is the first book to examine this critical period in American Thoroughbred racing history and one of the sport's forgotten superstars.
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Astride - Horses, Women, And A Partnership That Shaped America

by Eliza Mcgraw

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 On March 3, 1913, a quarter of a million people gathered in Washington, DC, to watch five thousand female suffragists march down Pennsylvania Avenue, headed by a cohort of equestrians in breeches and plumed hats. From atop a white horse, wearing long white boots and a cloak emblazoned with a Maltese cross, Inez Milholland rallied her compatriots against hecklers. Channeling Joan of Arc, Milholland appeared strong and fearless as she sat astride her horse.The latter half of the 1800s ushered in a golden age of the horse that found more American women riding-both aside and astride-as they commanded presence in the public sphere. Reporters filed riding-craze stories about Manhattan socialites shopping on horseback, women who exercised on hobby horses, and women who worked as horsebreakers, cattle rustlers, or jockeys. In Astride: Horses, Women, and a Partnership That Shaped America, Eliza McGraw weaves together stories of women who pioneered in worlds such as Thoroughbred breeding, the circus, and horse rescue at a time when American women in general internalized the lessons of horsewomen: take chances, take up more space, and learn to get back on.From tamers to caretakers and performers to teachers, all worked with horses to buck the status quo. Expressing the idea of femininity with athleticism and authority, these trailblazers changed the way America understood women. Richly illustrated with period photographs, Astride demonstrates that even small changes can advance the fight for progress.
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Kentucky Oaks - 150 Years Of Running For The Lilies

by Avalyn Hunter

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 No Thoroughbred race in the state of Kentucky holds a more hallowed place in the national and international consciousness than the Kentucky Derby. Its fame is richly deserved, yet there are other equally important and historic races whose significance deserves a larger share of the spotlight-none more so than the Derby's sister race, the Kentucky Oaks. Inaugurated on May 19, 1875-just two days after the first Kentucky Derby-and run annually at Churchill Downs since then, the Kentucky Oaks is America's most prestigious race for three-year-old fillies and the second-oldest continuously run horse race in North America. Always cherished by horsemen as a test for the future mothers of the Thoroughbred, the Oaks has in recent years become a major charity and fashion gala in addition to its significance as a sporting event. Yet, although multiple books have been published about the Kentucky Derby, popular and academic historians alike have largely overlooked the Oaks.In The Kentucky Oaks: 150 Years of Running for the Lilies, author Avalyn Hunter sets out to recover the history of one of the most watched and highly attended events in Thoroughbred racing. Beginning with Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr.'s creation of a race designed to parallel England's historic Oaks Stakes, Hunter traces the evolution of the Kentucky Oaks through the stories of the men, women, and fillies that have made the Kentucky Oaks a symbol for women's growing participation in the sport at all levels.
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The Kentucky Oaks - 150 Years Of Running For The Lilies

by Avalyn Hunter

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 No Thoroughbred race in the state of Kentucky holds a more hallowed place in the national and international consciousness than the Kentucky Derby.
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Sir Barton And The Making Of The Triple Crown

by Jennifer S. Kelly

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 Presents a unique focus on the racing career and legacy of Sir Barton
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The Kentucky Oaks - 150 Years Of Running For The Lilies

by Avalyn Hunter

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 No Thoroughbred race in the state of Kentucky holds a more hallowed place in the national and international consciousness than the Kentucky Derby.
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Dream Derby - The Myth And Legend Of Black Gold

by Avalyn Hunter

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 The decision, which came to fruition three years after Hoots's death, would set in motion a story that would forever change Thoroughbred racing. In Dream Derby: The Myth and Legend of Black Gold, author Avalyn Hunter explores the personalities and histories that surrounded Black Gold.
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The Foxes Of Belair - Gallant Fox, Omaha, And The Quest For The Triple Crown

by Jennifer S Kelly

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 A comprehensive history of the Belair Stud and its impact on the American Thoroughbred industry.
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War And Homecoming - Veteran Identity And The Post-9/11 Generation

by Travis L Martin

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 Explores the stereotypes often found in patriotic rhetoric, popular media, literature, and veterans' lives.
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#Metoo And Beyond - Perspectives On A Global Movement

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 #MeToo and Beyond brings together scholars and activists from various backgrounds to approach the #MeToo movement from multiple spaces, positions, and areas of expertise â€" many from regions and contexts often overlooked and understudied in the mediascapes of the 'Global North'.
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#Metoo And Beyond - Perspectives On A Global Movement

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 Brings together scholars and activists from various backgrounds to approach #MeToo from multiple perspectives.
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Landaluce - The Story Of Seattle Slew'S First Champion

by Mary Perdue

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 Explores how racing phenomenon Landaluce, captured the imagination of racing fans across the country.
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Adolph Rupp And The Rise Of Kentucky Basketball

by James Duane Bolin

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A Careful Hunger - Poems

by Judy Young

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 With a submerged narrative behind the poems and several calls to nature through repeated motifs, the poet shares seminal emotions and experiences. A Careful Hunger is the last creative testament of this extraordinary artist -- her final act of fearlessness in a troubled yet joyful life.
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Smokescreen - Debunking Wildfire Myths To Save Our Forests And Our Climate

by Chad Hanson

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 Engages the national dialogue around forest fires at a time when it is desperately needed.
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Notorious John Morrissey

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 How a BareKnuckle Brawler Became a Congressman and Founded Saratoga Race Course. An astounding rags-to-riches story in the history of horse racing.
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Racing For America - The Horserace Of The Century And The Redemption Of A Sport

by James C. Nicholson

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 Remembers a blockbuster event and its legacy for American racing.
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Sir Barton And The Making Of The Triple Crown

by Jennifer S. Kelly

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 Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown is the first book to focus on Sir Barton, his career, and his historic impact on horse racing.
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