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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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