Download or read book The Pennsylvania Horse written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longest Shot written by John Eisenberg and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the first Saturday in May every year in Louisville, Kentucky, shortly after 5:30 PM, a new horse attains racing immortality. The Kentucky Derby is like no other race, and its winners are the finest horses in the world. Covered in rich red roses, surrounded by flashing cameras and admiring crowds, these instant celebrities bear names like Citation, Secretariat, Spectacular Bid, and Seattle Slew. They're worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in 1992, a funny thing happened on the way to the roses. The rattling roar of 130,000 voices tailed off into a high, hollow shriek as the horses crossed the finish line. Lil E. Tee? ABC broadcasters knew nothing about him, but they weren't alone. Who knew about Lil E. Tee? A blacksmith in Ocala, Florida, a veterinary surgeon in Ringoes, New Jersey, a trainer a Calder Race Course, and a few other people used to dealing with average horses knew this horse—and realized what a long shot Lil E. Tee really was. On a Pennsylvania farm that raised mostly trotting horses, a colt with a dime-store pedigree was born in 1989. His odd gait and tendency to bellow for his mother earned him the nickname "E.T." Suffering from an immune deficiency and a bad case of colic, he survived surgery that usually ends a horse's racing career. Bloodstock agents dismissed him because of his mediocre breeding, and once he was sold for only $3,000. He'd live in five barns in seven states by the time he turned two. Somehow, this horse became one of the biggest underdogs to appear on the American sporting landscape. Lil E. Tee overcame his bleak beginnings to reach the respected hands of trainer Lynn Whiting, jockey Pat Day, and owner Cal Partee. After winning the Jim Beam stakes and finishing second in the Arkansas Derby, Lil E. Tee arrived at Churchill Downs to face a field of seventeen horses, including the highly acclaimed favorite, Arazi, a horse many people forecast to become the next Secretariat. A 17-to-1 longshot, Lil E. Tee won the Derby with a classic rally down the home stretch, and finally Pat Day had jockeyed a horse to Derby victory. John Eisenberg draws on more than fifteen years of sports writing experience and a hundred interviews throughout Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Florida, and Arkansas to tell the story almost nobody knew in 1992. Eisenberg is a sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun and has won more than twenty awards for his sports writing, including several Associated Press sports editors' first places."
Download or read book The Nineteenth Century Horse Doctor written by Ned D. Heindel and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Im Winter ruht der Wagen, in Sommer der Schlitten, aber nie ruht das Pferd." ("The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, but the horse, never.") This old German proverb brings home the importance of the horse to the farmer in pre-industrial America. For these hard-pressed tillers of the soil in rural Pennsylvania, a horse was a prized possession; it provided transportation, motive power, companionship, and fertilizer. Few crises on a farm were more worrisome than an ailing horse. Just as every household had a "domestic physician" book packed with home remedies for human diseases, so most farmers owned a "Pferdartz" (horse doctor book) to care for their animals. These folk medical cures involved herbs, minerals, poultices, bleeding techniques, and even mystical incantations. Some were bizarre in the extreme. How to treat a mad dog bite? Press the bloody carcass of a freshly killed pigeon into the bite to absorb the poison. How to kill bot flies? Wash the horse with a suspension of gun powder and pepper in a mixture of rum and urine. In The Nineteenth Century Horse Doctor, Heindel and Rapp, two Pennsylvania German researchers in drug development and medical botany, translate and analyze over 100 veterinary recipes in a number of popular early 19th century Pferdartz from the Moravian and the Pennsylvania Dutch traditions.
Download or read book Horse and buggy Mennonites written by Donald B. Kraybill and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how the Wengers have cautiously and incrementally adapted to the changes swirling around them, this book offers an invaluable case study of a traditional group caught in the throes of a postmodern world."--Jacket.
Download or read book Wild Horse Burro Adoption Center Lewisberry Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barbaro written by Shelley Fraser Mickle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the race horse from his birth, through his training and winning of the Kentucky Derby, through his devastating injury two weeks later at the Preakness Stakes, to his death in January 2007.
Download or read book Ride Pennsylvania Horse Trails The western half of Pennsylvania 40 equstrian shared use trails written by Carolyn B. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pennsylvania Voices Book One written by Maryann Pasda Diedwardo and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pennsylvania Voices Book One: The Horse Prophet Land knows no boundaries. Dirt, sand, piles of moss exist and float as life forces of the planet earth. Pennsylvania Voices I, II, III is a trilogy of books about horses who helped the inhabitants of Pennsylvania understand the land. On a ride through Journey, we found our hearts.
Download or read book The Conestoga Six horse Bell Teams of Eastern Pennsylvania written by John Omwake and published by Cincinati : The Ebbert & Richardson Company. This book was released on 1930 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Pennsylvania. State Horse Racing Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Pennsylvania. State Harness Racing Commission and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Does A Police Horse Do written by Ellen F. Feld and published by Willow Bend Publishing . This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Liam - a police horse with the Lancaster, PA Mounted Police Unit. Liam is a valued member of the police department with a very important job. Along with his partner, Officer Eric Lukacs, he patrols areas of the city, meets with school children, and even helps with crowd control at big events. Follow along with this very special horse to learn just what a police horse does every day. Over 20 beautiful, professional photographs help tell the story of Liam as he goes about his day. Special discounts offered for multiple book orders from law enforcement organizations. Please use our contact form for further information. Details: Full-color - Ages 4 and up
Download or read book Gender Work and Harness Racing written by Elizabeth Anne Larsen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While gender equality has progressed in many sports since the second wave of the feminist movement in terms of women’s inclusion, participation, and success, harness horse racing has been recalcitrant to change. Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania investigates the stories of women involved in harness racing to expose how they use the uniqueness of their situation to work for positive change. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving, and sometimes succeeding, in harness horse racing, Elizabeth Anne Larsen’s analysis provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and women’s studies.
Download or read book Devon Horse Show and Country Fair written by Charlene Keller Fullmer and Kathryn Elizabeth Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1896, residents along the Philadelphia Main Line organized a meeting on the lawn of the Devon Inn inviting friends and neighbors to "effect an organization for the purpose of holding a Horse Show at Devon." In the aftermath of World War I, the Devon Horse Show incorporated a country fair in 1919 to support a local charity and selected Bryn Mawr Hospital as its beneficiary. Devon Horse Show and Country Fair follows the organization from its humble beginnings as a one-day show for local breeding farmers in the Philadelphia countryside to its rise as a premier international equestrian event. While it draws top competitors from around the world, the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair remains uniquely rooted in tradition and community. More than 2,500 volunteers return year after year, generation after generation, to ensure its success for the benefit of Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Download or read book Reed s Guide to Farms and Barns in Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware written by Patti Reed and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture written by Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Report of Pennsylvania Forestry Commission", published in 1896: 1895, pt. 2.
Download or read book Out of the Woods written by Ellen Williams and published by Palmetto Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1861, as the nation balanced on the brink of the Civil War, a farmer from the Hudson Valley brought a pedigreed colt to his new home in the Cowanesque Valley of northern Pennsylvania. What were his intentions for the young stallion? For the next three decades, the stallion was controlled by various members of the Wood family and passed from father to sons. From the Civil War through the Gilded Age and into the era of the Great War, horses sired by the Woods' Hambletonian stallion became four-legged celebrities during the peak of harness racing. The Grand Circuit was the highest level of this American spectator sport before NASCAR, the NFL, NBA or major league baseball. Piecing together public records, news archives, family diaries, scrapbooks, and artifacts, the author reveals the true stories behind the legend of the horse known as "Old Dan". The stallion's offspring were purchased, loved and raced by congressmen, capitalists, and common farmers of the region along the Pennsylvania and New York border. Fully-documented with annotations, details of the Wood family and social history of the region augment this narrative of real horses - from Wall Street to Kentucky and Farmington township - who connected this remote lumber territory to the mainstream of America's journey through the Industrial Age.
