By: Walter Lazary & Friends

After the daily morning workouts at Gravesend Race Track in Brooklyn, New York City; June 1905.   (Photo John C. Hemment – Keeneland Library)

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New    January 2025

The 1984 Breeders’ Cup

  • A Dream Come True
  • Seven Great Races
  • Ten Million Dollars In Purses
  • The World’s Richest Horse Race

August 2024

The Great Race of 1823

America Eclipse vs Henry

Part 1 – American Eclipse

Part 2 – Henry

Part 3 – The Great Race


 April 2024

The Four Two-Year-Old Champions of 1963

  • (Top Left) – Raise a Native
  • (Top Right) – Tosmah
  • (Bottom Left) – Hurry to Market
  • (Bottom Right) – Castle Forbes


March   2024

America’s Best 20th Century

(Best: Overall – Fillies & Mares –  Turf Male – Turf F & M)


February  2024

Calumet Farm’s Gen. Duke

What Could Have Been


February   2024.

Melair

The California Comet


January   2024

Latonia

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