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Some of the Thoroughbred racing's greatest champions horses such as Man O' War, Citation, and Native Dancer are the handiwork of a remarkable parade of individuals, ranging from full-time horsemen to daring capitalists to philanthropists. In Legacies of the Turf, renowned racing historian Edward L. Bowen tells the stories of some of the powerhouse racing dynasties that dominated the sport in the early to mid-twentieth century the Whitneys, Vanderbilts, Wideners, Phippses, and Hancocks, as well as the upstarts such as the wily horse trader John E. Madden and the flamboyant Westerner James R. Keene. James R. Keene was of the ilk of entrepreneur extraordinaire who had made his wealth elsewhere and became swept up in the world of the horse, where he was long prominent. William Collins Whitney was of similar nature in business and industry, but his entry into the Turf came late in his life, so the enduring presence of his family name would have to be the handiwork of descendants.
A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders (Vol. II)
This volume is a companion and sequel to Legacies of the Turf (Vol. I), published by Eclipse Press in 2003. Award-winning author Edward L. Bowen picks up where he left off in the first volume, deftly chronicling Thoroughbred racing's greatest breeders of the past half-century several of whom grace the sport today and others whose equine legacies keep their storied pasts alive.
Following family lines, both equine and human, to the present day, the stories of these men provide insight into their methods and approaches as breeders. Stakes-winning sons and daughters continue as testimony to the successful choices they have made. This volume also relives the roles of these men as Thoroughbred breeders being intertwined with interesting, well-lived lives and sometimes-untimely deaths. Brash upstarts, old money, and savvy titans of industry colour pages of Legacies of the Turf (Vol. 2).
Their persistence, hard work, genetics theories, and good old-fashioned luck resulted in the greatest racehorses of the second half of the century.
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