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Vote "Yes" to Horse Racing in New Jersey, 1939

Once in a while, something interesting falls in your lap. I was going through a stack of old racing publications, the same stack that produced last week’s post, and found a brochure filed among the pages of one old magazine from 1940 ... Read full post >>

Ten Cool Horse Racing Ads from 1968

I'm not much of a memorabilia collector but one thing that I am a sucker for are old racing publications. I have in my office an ever growing stack of the Thoroughbred Record, Bloodhorse, and the National Turf and Sport Digest ... Read full post >>

Ruthless and the Barbarous Battalion

On Saturday, Aqueduct hosts the 34th running of The Ruthless for three-year-old fillies. The race is named for a filly who ran in the 1860s but didn't earn her rightful place in Racing’s Hall of Fame until 1975. Ruthless entered my mind recently as I was reading through Walter Vosburgh’s Racing in America ... Read full post >>

Walter Vosburgh's Racing in America, 1866-1921

Walter Vosburgh's Racing in America, 1866-1921 is one of the most important texts on racing history. The book covers a period in American racing when it evolved into the sport that we know today. The racing scene of 1866 would be foreign to the race fan of 2012 ... Read full post >>