Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown (eBook)

Jennifer S. Kelly (Autor)

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2019
328 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7717-5 (ISBN)

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He was always destined to be a champion. Royally bred, with English and American classic winners in his pedigree, Sir Barton shone from birth, dubbed the "e;king of them all."e; But after a winless two-year-old season and a near-fatal illness, uncertainty clouded the start of Sir Barton's three-year-old season. Then his surprise victory in America's signature race, the Kentucky Derby, started him on the road to history, where he would go on to dominate the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, completing America's first Triple Crown.His wins inspired the ultimate chase for greatness in American horse racing and established an elite group that would grow to include legends like Citation, Secretariat, and American Pharoah. After a series of dynamic wins in 1920, popular opinion tapped Sir Barton as the best challenger for the wonder horse Man o' War, and demanded a match race to settle once and for all which horse was the greatest. That duel would cement the reputation of one horse for all time and diminish the reputation of the other for the next century -- until now. Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown is the first book to focus on Sir Barton, his career, and his historic impact on horse racing. Author Jennifer S. Kelly uses extensive research and historical sources to examine this champion's life and achievements. Kelly charts how Sir Barton broke track records, scored victories over other champions, and sparked the yearly pursuit of Triple Crown glory. This book reveals the legacy of Sir Barton and his seminal contributions to Thoroughbred racing one hundred years after his pioneering achievement.

Autor

lt;P>Jennifer S. Kelly is a lifelong horse racing fan using her experience as a writing instructor and technical writer to chronicle and preserve the history of her favorite sport, especially the Triple Crown. Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown is her first book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Horses in History
• Reihe/Serie: Horses in History
• Vorwort: Steve Haskin
• Zusatzinfo: 46 b&w halftones, 4 charts
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: 1920s • Agrarian • American Society • A. M. Orpen • animals • Argonne offensive • Arnold Rothstein • Audley Farm • Belmont • Belmont Futurity • Belmont Stakes • Billy Kelly • breeders • Breeding • Captives • Champions • churchill downs • combat • Commander J. K. L. Ross • Common man • Community • Corporal • Culture • Derby • Doughboy • Dwyer Stakes • Earl Sande • equestrian • equestrian sports • Equine • equine studies • Fame • famous horse races • First World War • Frank Keogh • german soldiers • Great War • Hamburg Place • Hero • H. G. Bedwell • horseback • horseback riding • Horse Breeding • Horsemanship • horse racetracks • Horse Racing • horse trainers • horse training • Idea • Jockeys • John E. Madden • John Kenneth • Kenilworth Gold Cup • Kentucky • Kentucky Derby • killing • Legend • Leveson Ross • Manowar • Man o' War • Mares • match race • Matt Winn • military archives • Military Biography • military history • MONEY • Motion picture • Mountains • neighbors • pedigree • piety • Pimlico Race Course • Place • POWs • preakness • Preakness Stakes • Prisoners of war • races • racetracks • Racing • riders • riding • rural background • Samuel Riddle • Saratoga • schools • Septicemia • Services • Show • sir barton horse • Small Town • southern • Sports • Stakes • stallions • Symbol • Taxes • Tennessee History • Thoroughbreds • Traditional Values • Trainers • Training • United States history • US Army Remount Service • Veteran • Virtues • warfare • wartime • Win • Winners • winning • Withers Stakes • wolf river valley • World War I • wwi
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7717-0 / 0813177170
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7717-5 / 9780813177175