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- Marshall Lilly: Race Horse Man
- Revisiting the “Lost” Preakness
- Raleigh Colston, Jr.: The Last African American Trainer of an Era, 1911
- Who is that jockey holding a gun?
- The end of the bookmaker in American horse racing, 1951
- World’s Richest Horse Race, 1919
- “Incapable of being dull”: Joe Palmer’s obituary, 1952
- Book Review: Sports Betting and Bookmaking: An American History
- The First Kentucky Derby Winner to Race in Pennsylvania, 1876
- Dickie Jenkins memoir about the mighty Kelso now online
- The incredible story behind Clem McCarthy’s first Kentucky Derby broadcast
- Watch the 1930 Florida Derby from Hialeah Park
- Watch Clem McCarthy call the 1930 Kentucky Derby
- Gallant Fox’s forgettable Kentucky Derby, 1930
- Theodore Walton: The original racetrack “Plunger”
- Travers Stakes Day, 2015
- Newsreel of Del Mar Inaugural Handicap, 1937
- The first Washington Park Race Track in Chicago
- “American Pharoah is finally the one!”
- Happy Belmont Stakes Day 2015!
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