150 years of racing in Saratoga : little known stories and facts from America's most historic racing city, Allan Carter and Mike Kane

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150 years of racing in Saratoga : little known stories and facts from America's most historic racing city, Allan Carter and Mike Kane

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little known stories and facts from America's most historic racing city

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Allan Carter and Mike Kane

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• 150 years of racing in Saratoga : little known stories and facts from America's most historic racing city

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• Charleston, SC, The History Press, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137) and index

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First Things First -- Whichone : The "Other" Horse in the 1930 Travers -- Filly for the Course -- A Pair of Dead-Heats Travers -- Travers Trainer Mary Hirsch Stands Alone -- Nineteenth-Century Steeplechasing and Hurdles Racing -- Leading Jockeys and Trainers, 1900-1960 -- A History of the Flash Stakes -- Saratoga's Top Fifteen Fields -- Common Errors About Saratoga Racing -- Hopeful and Spinaway Winner Tanya -- Surprising Winners : Upset, Jim Dandy and Onion -- An Ode to the Popular Molly Brant -- The Notorious Gottfried Walbaum -- East versus West in the 1879 Travers -- Things to Know About Saratoga -- Three Equine Meteors -- A History of the Saratoga Cup -- Gates Closed on Union Avenue -- Record-Setting Checkmate -- Appendix: Hall of Fame and Other Champion Horses that Broke Their Maidens at Saratoga

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2013018551

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24 cm

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143 pages

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9781626191020

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2013018551

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