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Monmouth Park, Battleship, and countdown to the Preakness
Happy opening day to Monmouth Park – one of our favorite tracks here at the home office. I came across…
May 11 2013, 8:55am | Visit source ›
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Whirlaway’s Kentucky Derby, 1941
In retrospect, all Triple Crown winners were born to be great. However, if we rewind to April and May of…
May 4 2013, 4:00am | Visit source ›
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Happy Derby Weekend! I published a few pieces at other outlets this week that I thought I would share here.…
May 3 2013, 4:00pm | Visit source ›
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Kentucky Derby points and the last Derby shocker
Count me as a fan of the new Kentucky Derby qualifying point system that replaced graded stakes earnings as the…
April 26 2013, 5:30am | Visit source ›
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Pittsburgh Phil’s Thoughts on the Pari-mutuel Machines
In 1948, Horace Wade wrote an article titled “Uncle Phil’s Boy” for the Turf and Sport Digest about James McGill.…
April 17 2013, 6:00pm | Visit source ›
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Citation before the Derby, April 1948
As I have written here in the past, I think Citation’s 3-year-old season stands alone in racing history. An article…
April 10 2013, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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The End of the Bookmaker, 1952
A few weeks back I did two articles on Tim Mara and his bookmaking operation. In those articles I claimed…
March 21 2013, 5:02pm | Visit source ›
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Memories of 1951 Kentucky Derby winner Count Turf
One of my favorite things about Colin’s Ghost is the growing collection of comments from racing people left on the…
March 16 2013, 10:00am | Visit source ›
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Among the pages of the Turf & Sport Digest from December 1937 is a valuable description of a bookmaking operation…
March 6 2013, 5:35am | Visit source ›
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Tim Mara, New York Bookmaker, 1937
Anyone who knows me a little bit knows that I am a big fan of pro football. Unfortunately, my team…
February 18 2013, 5:30am | Visit source ›
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Broadcasting the Kentucky Derby, 1935-1936
Click here to join our mailing list This week’s focus is on an article that was written in 1935 by…
January 29 2013, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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“Native Dancer looks beaten to me!” Listening to the Kentucky Derby, 1953
Last week I came across a review of the 1935 radio broadcast of the Kentucky Derby in the pages of…
January 19 2013, 8:30am | Visit source ›
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Happy New Year! To kick things off at Colin’s Ghost in 2013, I thought I would go with a topic…
January 15 2013, 5:30am | Visit source ›
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Keeneland Opening Day Program, 1936
Earlier this week, I published a piece on the first ever race meeting at the Keeneland Race Course in Lexington,…
November 23 2012, 12:00pm | Visit source ›
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The Sunday morning after the Breeders’ Cup, as I read all of the recaps of racing’s biggest weekend, an article…
November 21 2012, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Hard to believe it’s time for another Breeders’ Cup. While this year’s edition lacks the compelling story lines from recent…
November 1 2012, 6:30pm | Visit source ›
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A few weeks ago I received an email from a guy in Baltimore who was selling a major piece of…
October 29 2012, 11:00am | Visit source ›
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Point Breeze Park and Thoroughbred Racing in Philadelphia, 1860
I made a discovery for the Great American Racetrack Project a few weeks back. This one happened to be right…
October 23 2012, 6:30pm | Visit source ›
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Obvious Loser Declared the Winner at Gloucester Race Track, 1890
One thing we take for granted today is the indisputable order of finish posted at the end of races. Prior…
September 20 2012, 6:00pm | Visit source ›
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Thoroughbred racing’s long slow death, 1972
The horse racing “Twitterati” have an ongoing debate that pits those who insist that racing is dying with those who…
September 10 2012, 8:50am | Visit source ›
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Working alongside Joe Palmer, 1950
In the relatively brief time that I have been making an annual pilgrimage to Saratoga Springs, New York there are…
September 3 2012, 7:00am | Visit source ›
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Gloucester Race Track in New Jersey, 1890 to 1893
A race track in Gloucester City, New Jersey, a ferry ride across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, has long faded…
August 15 2012, 5:30am | Visit source ›
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Saratoga and the “50-cent aristocrat,” 1902
Few places in sports inspire the deserved reverence that has surrounded Saratoga Race Course for over a century. Occupying the…
August 3 2012, 5:00am | Visit source ›
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