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Hardcover Racing for America: The Horse Race of the Century and the Redemption of a Sport Book

ISBN: 0813180643

ISBN13: 9780813180649

Racing for America: The Horse Race of the Century and the Redemption of a Sport

(Part of the Horses in History Series)

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...

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