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1: Great Racehorses Of The Fifties
Like so many other things, horse-racing both legitimized, and was legitimized by, the new medium of television during the 1950s. What horse-racing offered TV was the chance for this upstart medium, cr..
2: Horses In Art, Literature And Mythology
Few animals have influenced the history of human culture like the horse. These four-legged running machines gave us food, mobility, and enhanced success at hunting hard-to-catch animals. And the influ..
3: Great Racehorses Of The Thirties
The 1920s, to hear some historians tell it, were one big party - at least for the luckier part of the population, the folks listed in the Social Registry, the partygoers who found themselves fictional..
4: Horses In Art, Literature And Mythology III
During the twentieth century, representational paintings of horses became increasingly the domain of "horse painters" such as Richard Stone Reeves (1919-2005). The New York City-born artist is, himsel..
5: Horses In Art, Literature And Mythology II
European artists and storytellers had a rich tradition to draw on in depicting the sometimes-crucial relationship between humans and horses. Greek and Roman myth yielded such vivid horse-characters as..
6: How Did Horses Come To Be?
The evolutionary history of the horse is one of the most-covered subjects in modern biology. And no wonder - of all modern animals, the horse has behind it the most intact and visible family tree.Our ..
7: How To Care For A Horse (If You Really Want To!)
Everyone remembers the "Simpsons" episode in which beleaguered Homer - not yet the walking punchline he was to become in later seasons - works himself nearly to death, taking second shifts at the Kwik..
8: Unnatural Selection: A Brief History Of Horse Breeding
Who first thought of horse breeding? Who was the first person to decide that it was time for humans to give horses a hand in reproducing - a figure of speech that may seem all too apt to those who kno..
9: How Did Horses Become Domesticated?
Trying to pin down the moment at which horse and human history were first entwined is like trying to name the inventor of the wheel. The domesticated horse looms so large in human culture, and casts i..
10: It's Hard Out Here For A Jockey: The Classic Years
With the publication, in 2001, of Laura Hillenbrand's bestseller Seabiscuit, a new generation of Americans learned about the unremitting hardness of life in the early days of American Thoroughbred hor..
11: Great Racehorses Of The Forties
We remember the 1940s this way: as the decade when America stepped up, and everything changed. As the decade began, the US was an isolationist emerging world power hoping to avoid the latest bloody Eu..
12: I'll Replace You With Machines: Robot Jockeys On The Horizon?
In England, and sometimes in America, horse racing is referred to as "the sport of kings." Some Gulf nations, too, have their royal sport: camel racing.Unfortunately - just as concerns have been raise..
13: Where Do They Get Those Names?
Secretariat. Man O'War. Affirmed. Barbarino. Whirlaway.Where, you may have wondered once or twice over the years, do racehorses get those crazy names? The rules for naming and registering a racehorse ..
14: The 1920s: Thoroughbred Racing's Golden Age
As with the baseball stars of that era - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth - the names of the greatest horses of the Roaring Decade are with us still, decades after most of those who witnessed their glory are dead. ..
15: Great Racehorses Of The Seventies
The 1970s represents one of the last decades when high-stakes Thoroughbred races dominated the public mind as they had done during the 1920s, '30s and '40s, when great horses like Man O'War, Seabiscui..
16: Great Contemporary Thoroughbred Horse Jockeys
Many sports rival it, but you'd be hard pressed to name any competitive human activity harder than being a jockey. There's the food deprivation - the constant training - the danger, even likelihood, o..
17: The History Of Belmont Park
First opened in May 1905, Belmont Park provides American Thoroughbred horse racing with one of its most spectacular venues. With the largest dirt course in Thoroughbred racing - a whopping mile-and-a-..
18: Battling Sexism On The Racing Track
Being the first woman in a male-dominated field is no picnic. You may face public incomprehension, professional hostility, even legal challenges or death threats. In one study of female firefighters,..
19: Great African-American Jockeys In American Thoroughbred Racing
American sports, like most American institutions, has a history of shameful racism, and this includes Thoroughbred horse racing - as anyone who has scanned the insulting, stereotypical names of some r..
20: Becoming An Informed Horse Better
If you are a betting man, you probably are pretty discouraged about the chances of winning the battle with the horse. At every turn, the horse seems to be winning.However, the cruelty of horse to man ..
21: The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
The three most important thoroughbred horse races - the Kentucky Derby (Louisville, KY), the Preakness Stakes (Baltimore, ML), and the Belmont Stakes (Elmont, NY)- begin in May and end five weeks late..
22: Horse Racing in Literature
Horse racing, the second most-popular spectator sport in America, remains as vital as ever, but its age, high drama, and historical appeal as the "sport of kings" ensure that it also has a place in th..
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