Author: Ed Hotaling Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 9780815603504 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 392
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As much social history as sports history, this is an account of how America's first national resort, Saratoga Springs, gave birth to and nurtured its first national sport and in the process had significant impact on American cultural life. Fine bandw photographs, etchings, and drawings illustrate the text. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Bill Mooney Publisher: Carlton Books ISBN: 9781780978215 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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An authoritative and comprehensive illustrated work of reference, which tells the story of the "sport of kings" from its earliest inception to the present day.
Author: Lara Prior-Palmer Publisher: Ebury Press ISBN: 9781785038860 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Lara Prior-Palmer was seeking the unknown. In search of adventure aged nineteen, she entered the world's toughest horse race - a 1000km. ride through extreme conditions in the Mongolian wilderness.
Author: James C. Nicholson Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 081318066X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 186
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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.
Author: Blood-Horse Publications Publisher: Hundreds of Heads Books, LLC ISBN: 9781581501391 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 260
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Some of horse racing's most respected authorities looked at feats of greatness, world records, legendary rivalries, and innovations to rank the sport's top 100 moments. They weighed individual accomplishments against industry initiatives, innovations against lucky breaks to come up with the definitive list. They pondered Secretariat's 31-length Belmont Stakes victory, Smarty Jones' elusive Triple Crown, the creation of the Breeders' Cup, and advancements in equine surgery. Racing's top 100 list will generate debate for years to come, just as did the ranking of Man o' War over Secretariat as Horse of the Century. Richly illustrated with historic and modern photos, Horse Racing's Top 100 Moments also contains comprehensive lists of leading earners, fastest times, highest prices, and most races won.
Author: C. X. Wong Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 9781432768522 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
"Precision ... Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Horse Racing" thoroughly discusses the mathematical and statistical methods in handicapping and betting techniques. Differentiations, combinatorics, normal distribution, kernel smoothing and other mathematical and statistical tools are introduced. The jargons and equations are kept to a minimum so that it is easy to understand for most readers. More than 20 professional programs are freely available to download, which can allow readers to easily apply the methodology introduced in the book. This book can be divided into three main parts: horse handicapping (Chapters 2-6), wagering (Chapters 7-9) and theories in practices (Chapters 10-11). Chapter 1 will explain why long term gains are possible in horse racing. About horse handicapping, we will start with analysing racing forms in Chapter 2. Other handicapping factors such as weight carried, jockeys, trainers and pedigrees will be discussed in Chapter 3. Some advanced statistical methods, such as chi-square test and kernel smoothing, will be introduced in Chapter 4 to further analyse those handicapping factors discussed in previous chapters. The following two chapters are about probability estimations. In Chapter 5, normal distribution and multinominal logistic regression are introduced in estimating winning probability of each race horse. In Chapter 6, we will talk about some methods in misconceptions in estimating placed probability. Two main concepts in wagering, Kelly criterion and hedging, will be discussed in Chapters 7 and 8. To hit exotic pools, those theories in combinatorics in Chapter 9 will definitely help the readers. The author will share his experiences in betting syndicate in Chapter 10, and tell you how to be a successful professional horseplayer in the last Chapter. Some readers may find the mathematics in this book difficult, but the free program will take your pain away and do all the calculations. You can simply apply all the professional formulae by no more than a click, and pick your horses like an expert analyst. As an awardee in Asian-Pacific Mathematics Olympiad, the author abandoned his career as an actuary and became a key member in a gambling syndicate. This book was reprinted in the 4th edition in Hong Kong, ranked #2 in the best-selling chart in the international Chinese weekly Yazhou Zhoukan, and now available worldwide.
Author: Rosemary Coates Publisher: ISBN: 9781910723746 Category : Horse racing Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Each racing term has a witty illustration by Rosemary Coates. The facing page explains in simple terms exactly what those mysterious racing terms mean. No longer will you be out of the loop when the talk turns to: - Steeplechasers - Weighing Rooms - Nursery Stakes - Maiden Stakes - A Weaver - A colt, a filly, a brood mare, - A flying stallion - On the Nod - The Field - A Puller - Gone to Post - An Each-way Bet and much, much more....
Author: Steven A. Riess Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 0815655282 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 438
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Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York as a center of both thoroughbred racing and off-track gambling. Horse Racing the Chicago Way shines a light on this fascinating, complicated history, exploring the role of political influence and class in the rise and fall of thoroughbred racing; the business of racing; the cultural and social significance of racing; and the impact widespread opposition to gambling in Illinois had on the sport. Riess also draws attention to the nexus that existed between horse racing, politics, and syndicate crime, as well as the emergence of neighborhood bookmaking, and the role of the national racing wire in Chicago. Taking readers from the grandstands of Chicago’s finest tracks to the underworld of crime syndicates and downtown poolrooms, Riess brings to life this understudied era of sports history.
Author: Glendon Jones Publisher: Access Publishers Network ISBN: 9780897092036 Category : Horse racing Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
HORSE RACING LOGIC was written for both the novice and experienced handicapper of thoroughbreds. With this easy-to-read book, you can identify the potential winner that others at the racetrack are overlooking. These overlays, as they are called, can sometimes produce boxcar payoffs!
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781535586047 Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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Finally a coloring book for horse racing fans! Here is a selection of 10 hand drawn pages for you to colour and make your own. Award winning horse racing photographer Cindy Pierson Dulay has drawn these images using her own photos for models. Each drawing for colouring is on a single sheet of paper with the back left blank, so colors won't bleed through. There are images of running horses, winner's circle, and close-up head shots plus two sheets of jockey silks, one with designs and one for you to draw your own designs.
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