In preparation for next week's Thanksgiving holiday, the Turf Times shares the following informative article on obtaining the family dinner -- selected from the archives of the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine. Wild Turkey. But the most common method of …
Rules for Laying Out a Race Course
Coverage of closing day for the 1837 New Orleans Jockey Club Spring Races concludes next week! For this week's issue, the Times shares the following resource for track building, circa 1833: Rules for Laying Out a Race Course. Through the middle of the intended course, …
General Kosciuszko’s Horse — As Noble as the Man Himself
Dear Readers of the Turf Times: Our correspondent's coverage of the New Orleans Jockey Club's 1837 Inaugural Spring Races will resume in next week's issue! In the meantime, here's a brief tale of true chivalry, culled from the archives of the American Turf Register and …
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On the Treatment of the Race Horse, Immediately Preceding and on the Day of the Race
Mr. Editor: Natchez, Nov. 22, 1830 I have seen with pleasure, and I hope, some profit, the “instructions for training race horses,” given by “A …
“Could Nature More Clearly Sanction the Sports of the Turf?”
From an 1831 issue of the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, here’s an amusing anecdote about a pair of highly trained thoroughbreds, who ran their race without having to be asked – just like the plucky Virginia colt who crossed the finish line first in “A Toast to …
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