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Book Derby Dreams

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Bolus
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781565542075
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Derby Dreams written by Jim Bolus and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People in racing have to be dreamers," says Jim Bolus in the beginning of his fourth chronicle of the Kentucky Derby. The Derby itself has been dreamlike in its history. After nearly fading into oblivion at the turn of the century, the Kentucky Derby has grown into a national cultural institution and the premier annual horse race in America, if not the world. The stories about this great race and its participants have grown through the years. They have evolved into both heroic epics and much-maligned tragedies. The author relates the triumphant tale of Regret, the first filly to win the Derby on what was her very first start of the year. He also tells of Riley, who, in spite of a muddy track, won the first Kentucky Derby held in the rain. Some of the shattered Derby dreams are described as well. Included is the story of the tumultuous feud between horse owner Jim T. Williams and jockey Roscoe Troxler, whom Williams accused of throwing the 1911 race. The author entertains and informs with his Kentucky Derby tales of the dreams realized and the dreams never achieved at Churchill Downs.

Book Derby Dreams

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  • Author : A.C. Ellas
  • Publisher : Devine Destinies
  • Release : 2014-05-01
  • ISBN : 1771119357
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Derby Dreams written by A.C. Ellas and published by Devine Destinies. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The racehorse shifter, V-Tach, and his jockey, Achilles –Pat” O�Peleon, now face the challenge that has eluded the O�Peleon family for years‹the Kentucky Derby. Facing off against some of the best horses in the world, without any magical advantage, will V-Tach have what it takes to win the roses? As magical horses continue to disappear, forces are moving against Brenden, Pat�s father and Vee�s trainer, and all might be lost should the mage perish. Meanwhile, Pat takes the first steps into the world of magic, but first, he must acknowledge his own nature, a challenge he might find harder even than winning races.

Book Kentucky Derby Dreams

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  • Author : Susan Nusser
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-04-24
  • ISBN : 0312569904
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Kentucky Derby Dreams written by Susan Nusser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the foal barn to the racetrack, this book captures for the first time the behind-the-scenes drama of raising Kentucky Derby hopefuls by following three years in the lives of foals born during one week of the 2009 foaling season.

Book Dream Derby

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  • Author : Avalyn Hunter
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2023-09-12
  • ISBN : 0813198054
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Dream Derby written by Avalyn Hunter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of May 18, 1924, households across America opened their newspapers to the headline: "Derby Winner Property of Indian Woman." The woman in question was Rosa Magnet Hoots, a member of the Oklahoma Osage Nation. The horse, draped in the iconic red roses signifying his victory in the fiftieth running of the Kentucky Derby, was Black Gold. In a sport defined by its exclusivity, the pair's unlikely appearance in the winner's circle set off a firestorm of speculation that would uncover an origin story stranger than fiction. Named for the oil that had been discovered in large quantities in Oklahoma at the time of his birth, Black Gold was born in 1921 to a mare named Useeit. At the start of her hard-knocking racing career, Useeit had been purchased by Al Hoots, for whom she won thirty-two of a staggering 122 races. What the mare lacked in regality, she made up for in gumption, a trait Hoots believed could propel her progeny to the hallowed ground of Churchill Downs. Hoots himself would never see Black Gold, dying unexpectedly in 1917. But the legend that came to define the horse would begin with him. Languishing in his deathbed, Hoots claimed to have a prophetic dream that a colt born to Useeit would win the Kentucky Derby. He extracted a promise from his wife, Rosa, to breed the mare to the stallion Black Toney. The decision, which came to fruition three years after Hoots's death, would set in motion a story that would forever change Thoroughbred racing. In Dream Derby: The Myth and Legend of Black Gold, author Avalyn Hunter explores the personalities and histories that surrounded Black Gold. Told against the backdrop of a make-or-break moment for American horse racing and politics at large and framed by the racial violence that rocked Tulsa in the 1920s, Black Gold's victory at the Golden Jubilee stands at the intersection of sport and history. Hunter's work looks behind every stall and tack room door and celebrates the hard work that goes into a great horse and its rivals.

Book Judy

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 632 pages

Download or read book Judy written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Judy  Or the London Serio comic Journal

Download or read book Judy Or the London Serio comic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Judy  or  The London serio comic journal  ed  by C H  Ross

Download or read book Judy or The London serio comic journal ed by C H Ross written by Charles Henry Ross and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A catalogue of remarkable books published by Mr  George Redway  1887

Download or read book A catalogue of remarkable books published by Mr George Redway 1887 written by George Redway and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A catalogue of remarkable books published by Mr. George Redway (1887)" by George Redway. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Baily s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes

Download or read book Baily s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Derby Daredevils  Kenzie Kickstarts a Team

Download or read book The Derby Daredevils Kenzie Kickstarts a Team written by Kit Rosewater and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated middle-grade series that celebrates new friendships, first crushes, and getting out of your comfort zone—now in paperback Ever since they can remember, fifth graders Kenzie (aka Kenzilla) and Shelly (aka Bomb Shell) have dreamed of becoming roller derby superstars. When Austin’s city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duo celebrates! But they’ll need to try out as a five-person team. Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is the coolest thing on wheels. But Kenzie starts to have second thoughts when Shelly starts acting like everyone’s best friend . . . Isn’t she supposed to be Kenzie’s best friend? And things get really awkward when Shelly recruits Kenzie’s neighbor (and secret crush!) for the team. With lots of humor and an authentic middle-grade voice, book one of this illustrated series follows Kenzie, Shelly, and the rest of the Derby Daredevils as they learn how to fall—and get back up again.

Book Kabbala denudata  the Kabbalah unveiled  containing the following books of the Zohar  1  The book of concealed mystery  2  The greater holy assembly  3  The lesser holy assembly  Tr  from the Lat  version of Knorr von Rosenroth  by S L M  Mathers

Download or read book Kabbala denudata the Kabbalah unveiled containing the following books of the Zohar 1 The book of concealed mystery 2 The greater holy assembly 3 The lesser holy assembly Tr from the Lat version of Knorr von Rosenroth by S L M Mathers written by Zohar and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baily s Magazine of Sports   Pastimes

Download or read book Baily s Magazine of Sports Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baily s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes

Download or read book Baily s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by Tresham Gilbey and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bacon  Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians

Download or read book Bacon Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians written by William Francis C. Wigston and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Khurbn   Other Poems

Download or read book Khurbn Other Poems written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Yiddish, khurbn is the word for 'total destruction, ' the word for what the English-speaking world calls the Jewish 'Holocaust' of World War II. This is the author's precisely personal, horrifying, tender, and structurally astute masterpiece, it is the great middle-length poem of our times.

Book Sporting Anecdotes

Download or read book Sporting Anecdotes written by James Glass Bertram and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Punch

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Punch written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: