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Derby Day 200
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Author : Patricia Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Derby Day 200 written by Patricia Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Derby (Horse race) categories.
Derby Day 200 Exhibition Catalogue
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Author : Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Derby Day 200 Exhibition Catalogue written by Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Derby Day 200
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language : en
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Release Date : 1979
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Derby Day 200
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Author : Patricia Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Derby Day 200 written by Patricia Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Art categories.
Derby Day 200
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Author : Patricia Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Derby Magic
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Author : Jim Bolus
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 1998-10-31
Derby Magic written by Jim Bolus and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-31 with Sports & Recreation categories.
" . . . absorbing chapters trace the history of shipping horses by air and equine personalities from the lovable Buckpasser to the vious Nevele Pride . . . A delight for racing fans." -Publishers Weekly No one was more knowledgeable about the Kentucky Derby than Jim Bolus, Kentucky Derby curator of the Kentucky Derby Museum, which is located on the grounds of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. In this, his fifth Pelican book on the Derby, Bolus examines the mystique, the majesty, and the magic of the most popular horse race in the world through various essays. "The Bull and the Sunshine Boys" recalls the 1986 Derby, which was won by Ferdinand. On that magical day, Charlie Whittingham, seventy-three, and Bill Shoemaker, fifty-four, became the oldest trainer and jockey, respectively, to win the Kentucky Derby. Readers will learn the exciting story of the first Derby winner in the essay "Assault: The Little Horse with the Heart of a Giant." The essays, including "Horses Have Their Own Personalities" and "Diary of a Champion: Skip Away," all convey the magic of the Derby, somehow captured by author Jim Bolus.
The First Kentucky Derby
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Author : Mark Shrager
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-05-01
The First Kentucky Derby written by Mark Shrager and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Today’s Kentucky Derby is a multimillion-dollar spectacle involving corporate sponsorship, worldwide media coverage, and an annual citywide festival in Louisville. Over its nearly century-and-a-half history, the Kentucky Derby has grown to be one of the biggest sporting events of the year, attracting 150,000 spectators at the track and nearly 15 million television viewers on the first Saturday each May. But 1875, the year of the first Derby, was a different time. The Louisville Jockey Club track, which would one day bear the name “Churchill Downs,” was a small structure that might, on its best day, provide seating and standing room for 12,000 spectators. The grandstand was plain and functional and included a section reserved for bookmakers, whose trade was legal and who operated in the open. Perhaps most significantly, the majority of jockeys in the race were Black, in stark contrast to the present-day Derby, where participation by African-American jockeys is rare. In The First Kentucky Derby, racing historian Mark Shrager examines the events leading up to the first “Run for the Roses,” the unsuccessful effort that the winning owner might have made to rig the race for his preferred horse, and the prominent role played by African Americans in Gilded Age racing culture—a holdover from pre-emancipation days, when slaves were trained from birth to ride for their wealthy owners and grew up surrounded by the horses that would be their life’s work.
The Kentucky Derby
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Author : James C. Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2012-03-15
The Kentucky Derby written by James C. Nicholson and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with History categories.
Provides a complete history of the Kentucky Derby, examining the tradition, spectacle, culture and evolution of an event that has marveled America--and the world--for more than 130 years.
The Suffragette Derby
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Author : Michael Tanner
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2013-05-21
The Suffragette Derby written by Michael Tanner and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Sports & Recreation categories.
On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with them a quartet of combustible elements: a fanatical, publicity-hungry suffragette; a scapegoat for the Titanic disaster and the pillar of the Establishment who bore him a personal grudge; a pair of feuding jockeys at odds over money and glory; and, finally, at the heart of the action, two thoroughbred horses - one a vicious savage and one the consummate equine athlete. Taken together, this was a recipe for the most notorious horse race in British history. One hundred years on, this particular Derby Day is remembered for two reasons: the fatal intervention of Emily Davison, a militant suffragette who brought down the King's runner, and the controversial disqualification of Bower Ismay's horse Craganour on the grounds of rough riding - the first and only time a Derby-winner has forfeited its title for this reason. The sensation of Davison's questionable interference in the name of suffrage has overshadowed the outrage of Craganour's disqualification and the intricate reasons behind it. Now, with a view to allowing this scandal the attention it deserves, Michael Tanner replays the most dramatic day in Turf history - and finally uncovers the truth of the Suffragette Derby.
Derby Dreams
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Author : Jim Bolus
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Derby Dreams written by Jim Bolus and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
"People in racing have to be dreamers," says Jim Bolus in the beginning of his fourth chronicle of the Kentucky Derby. The Derby itself has been dreamlike in its history. After nearly fading into oblivion at the turn of the century, the Kentucky Derby has grown into a national cultural institution and the premier annual horse race in America, if not the world. The stories about this great race and its participants have grown through the years. They have evolved into both heroic epics and much-maligned tragedies. The author relates the triumphant tale of Regret, the first filly to win the Derby on what was her very first start of the year. He also tells of Riley, who, in spite of a muddy track, won the first Kentucky Derby held in the rain. Some of the shattered Derby dreams are described as well. Included is the story of the tumultuous feud between horse owner Jim T. Williams and jockey Roscoe Troxler, whom Williams accused of throwing the 1911 race. The author entertains and informs with his Kentucky Derby tales of the dreams realized and the dreams never achieved at Churchill Downs.