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 …
The Great Match Race– Part I., Napoleon Challenges the North
"The way in which either party managed to improve their horses was kept as much a secret as the mysteries of Isis.” -- Niles' Weekly Register The Year: 1823. The American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine called it the “annus mirabilis in racing annals" – the “year of …
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Memoir of Sir Archy/Archie, the Godolphin Arabian of America
This week kicks off the Times' Turf Pedigree section -- from the vault we have selected the following piece on the renowned stallion from the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine's December 1829 issue. Memoir of Sir Archy. -- This justly celebrated horse was foaled in …
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Captain Oliver’s Triumph: Opening Day at the Eclipse Course, March 17, 1837 [Part I. – 1837 Races]
“Many persons determined to see the race, were compelled to walk, as they did, under a burning sun, four miles and a half.” -- Spirit of the Times, 8 April 1837 At the same time that he was Postmaster of Big Lick in 1831, twenty-one-year-old Yelverton N. Oliver was …
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, …