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awesome feather adds to the grand record of her ancestors

The post below first appeared earlier this week at Paulick Report. With her victory in the Grade 1 Gazelle at Aqueduct racetrack on Saturday, champion Awesome Feather came home a winner for the eighth… more →

bloodstock in the bluegrass

awesome feather adds to the grand record of her ancestors

fmitchell07 wrote 1 year ago: The post below first appeared earlier this week at Paulick Report. With her victory in the Grade 1 G … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, thoroughbred racehorse, Secretariat, Frank Stronach, champion fillies, greentree stable, Quill

a matter of hormones, not of class — 1 comment

fmitchell07 wrote 1 year ago: In her entertaining blog Foolish Pleasure, Valerie Grash wrote that American racing is lagging behin … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, thoroughbred racehorse, Zenyatta, International racing, Racing Programs, restricting races to fillies, valerie grash

100 years ago: racing at a standstill — 1 comment

fmitchell07 wrote 1 year ago: [The following is a further installment in a series about important events in racing during 1911. So … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, thoroughbred racehorse, Metropolitan Handicap, New York Tribune, horse racing and gambling, legislation forbidding gambling, racing and gambling

money, money everywhere — 2 comments

fmitchell07 wrote 1 year ago: Over at the den of our fellow racing blogger, Pull the Pocket, is a new post on the revenue from slo … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, thoroughbred racehorse, racing games, politics of racing, racing and economics, gambling in America, history of racing and sport

100 years ago: racing in decline due to restrictive legislation — 3 comments

fmitchell07 wrote 1 year ago: (This is the second in a series of short posts about happenings in 1911. Many of the posts will be r … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, thoroughbred racehorse, thoroughbred record, horse racing in america, algernon daingerfield, decline of racing, gambling and legislation

book review: the running rein derby — 4 comments

fmitchell07 wrote 1 year ago: In Search of Running Rein: The Amazing Fraud of the 1844 Derby, by Tony Byles. Foreward by Tony Morr … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, thoroughbred racehorse, Tony Morris, tony byles, in search of running rein, Running Rein, 1844 english derby

when artful rolled home

fmitchell07 wrote 1 year ago: In the days long before the Breeders’ Cup and other major racing events that offered excellent … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, thoroughbred racehorse, james r keene, racing opportunities for fillies, Breeders' Cup, Futurity Stakes, sheepshead bay racetrack

hindoo on rye — 4 comments

fmitchell07 wrote 2 years ago: The following anecdotes about the famous 19th century racer Hindoo come from a column written in The … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, thoroughbred racehorse, 19th century american racing, hindoo

video of personal ensign winning bc distaff

fmitchell07 wrote 3 years ago: Some of the treasures of the sport are now available for anyone to enjoy on the internet. While tele … more →

Tags: Horse Racing, People, Horse Breeding, media and sport, internet and preservation of racing history


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