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Racing Legends, The Great Ones,

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Racing Legends, The Great Ones,
Hollingsworth, Kent (ed.) [Lexington]: The Blood Horse, 1970. 4to, half lea. in slipcase, marbled endpapers, numbered 753 of 1000.

Condition: With Christmas inscription. Hollingsworth notes in the Introduction that the book evolved from discussions with Walter Jeffords, Sr. at the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga about notable horses, some of whom were not in the Hall of Fame. About a decade later, other discussions with Charles Stone, then editor of The Blood-Horse, eventually resulted in a weekly series profiling the "Great Ones." When it became apparent that one individual could not do it all (and still have a normal life), and the series eventually evolved into this book. It gives the statistics and history of 76 of the greatest racehorses of the past two centuries, from 1805 (Sir Archy) to 1963 (Buckpasser).

Excellent.

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