Containing full pedigree of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce.

This special re-print edition of Charles E. Trevathan's "The American Thoroughbred" is considered one of the most important works ever published on this famous breed of horse. First published in 1905, this important work on race horses, has not seen the light of day since its early publication. Chapters include The American Thoroughbred, The First Race Meetings, Early Owners Were Gentlemen, Maryland's Horses and Horsemen, The First Thoroughbreds of the North, Eclipse and Henry, What a Thoroughbred Mare May Do, Thoroughbreds of the West, Wagner vs. Gray Eagle, Kentucky's Greatness, Boston The King, When Boston Met Fashion, When Boston's Best Sons Met, The Last Race of Lexington, Racing in War Times, Turf Affairs of California, The Coming of the Modern Type, The Racing of Today, Horses of Today and more. A wonderful and compelling dialogue of the early history of horse racing in America up to the end of the 19th century. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

In a monumental and important work for the Thoroughbred industry, author and pedigree researcher Avalyn Hunter provides extensive pedigree analysis of every American classic race winner from 1914 through 2002.

On October 20, 1923, at Belmont Park in New York, Kentucky Derby champion Zev toed the starting line alongside Epsom Derby winner Papyrus, the top colt from England, to compete for a $100,000 purse. Years of Progressive reform efforts had nearly eliminated horse racing in the United States only a decade earlier. But for weeks leading up to the match race that would be officially dubbed the "International," unprecedented levels of newspaper coverage helped accelerate American horse racing's return from the brink of extinction. In this book, James C. Nicholson explores the convergent professional lives of the major players involved in the Horse Race of the Century, including Zev's oil-tycoon owner Harry Sinclair, and exposes the central role of politics, money, and ballyhoo in the Jazz Age resurgence of the sport of kings. Zev was an apt national mascot in an era marked by a humming industrial economy, great coziness between government and business interests, and reliance on national mythology as a bulwark against what seemed to be rapid social, cultural, and economic changes. Reflecting some of the contradiction and incongruity of the Roaring Twenties, Americans rallied around the horse that was, in the words of his owner, "racing for America," even as that owner was reported to have been engaged in a scheme to defraud the United States of millions of barrels of publicly owned oil. Racing for America provides a parabolic account of a nation struggling to reconcile its traditional values with the complexity of a new era in which the US had become a global superpower trending toward oligarchy, and the world's greatest consumer of commercialized spectacle.

Written by Eclipse Award-winning author Simon, contributing editor of "Thoroughbred Times, " and filled with dramatic historical photos capturing some of the greatest racing moments, this book will catapult readers into the fast-paced and exciting world of racing. 195 photos.