MAN O' WAR: RACING ICON

Man o' War breezing at Saratoga.

LINKS & REFERENCES

Thanks go to:

Dorothy Ours, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Keeneland Library, James Settembre of 'Thoroughbred Racing Collectibles', Jim Gaffney, The Blood-Horse, Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, The Thoroughbred Record (defunct), Alan Bergins, Steve Chambers,  Barbara D. Livingston, Dr Gloria Rezazedah, Dr Edwin Moore, Becky McKee, and Cindy Voigts.

Pedigree Links:

Pedigree Query (Thoroughbred) www.PedigreeQuery.com

Pedigree Query (All breed) www.AllBreedPedigree.com

 

Book Links:

Advance Book Exchange (for out-of-print books)  www.abebooks.com

Amazon Books  www.amazon.com

 

Periodical Links:

The Blood-Horse  www.bloodhorse.com

The Daily Racing Form  www.drf.com

 

Museums and Libraries Links:

Keeneland Library  www.keeneland.com

Kentucky Digital Library www.kdl.kyvl.org

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame www.racingmuseum.org

National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia www.nationalsporting.org

International Museum of the Horse www.imh.org

 

Reference Books:

'Absolute Dispersal Sale of the Famous Nursery Stud'  August Belmont II estate auction catalog, 1925, W.F. Hall Printing Co., Chicago, IL, (out of print)

'American Classic Pedigrees (1914-2002): A Decade-by-decade Review of  Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont winners, plus Kentucky Oaks and Coaching Club American Oaks' by Avalyn Hunter, 2003, Eclipse Press, Lexington, Ky (out of print)

'Battleship: A Daring Heiress, A Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse' by Dorothy Ours, 2013, St Martin's Press, NY, NY

'Boots and Saddles' by J.K.M. Ross, 1956, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc, New York, NY, (out of print)

'Country Life Diary: Three years in the life of a horse farm' by Josh Pons, 1992, Blood-Horse, Lexington, KY

'Exterminator' - Thoroughbred Legends Volume 18' by Eva Jolene Boyd, 2002, Eclipse Press, Lexington, KY

'The Fabric of Memory' by Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, NY, (out of print)

'The Grand National - Aintree's Official Illustrated History' by Reg Green, 2000, Virgin Publishing, Ltd., London

'The Great Breeders and Their Methods' by Abram S. Hewitt, 1982, Thoroughbred Publishers, Inc., Lexington, KY, (out of print)

'Horses and Horsemanship' by M.E. Ensminger 1977, Interstate Printers and Publishers, Inc., Danville, IL.

'The Kentucky Derby Diamond Jubilee' by Brownie Leach, 1949,  Dial Press, New York, NY, (out of print)

'Man o' War' by Page Cooper and Roger L. Treat, 1950, Julian Messner Inc., New York, NY,

'Man o' War' by Walter Farley, 1962, Random House, Inc., New York, NY

'Man o' War - A Legend Like Lightning' by Dorothy Ours, 2006, St Martin's Press, NY, NY

'Man o' War - Thoroughbred Legends Volume 1' by Edwin L. Bowen, 2000, Eclipse Press, Lexington, KY

'No Secret So Close - The Biography of Bruce Hobbs' by Tim Fitzgeorge-Parker, 1984, Pelham Books, London, (out of print)

'Racing Form 1918 - Volume 1'  edited by F.H. Brunnell, 1918,  Daily Racing Form Publishing Co., Buffalo, NY, (out of print)

'Racing Form 1919 - Volume 1'  edited by F.H. Brunnell, 1919,  Daily Racing Form Publishing Co., Buffalo, NY, (out of print)

'Samuel D. Riddle Collection - Public Auction' Samuel D. Riddle estate auction catalog, 1951, Samuel T. Freeman & Co, Philadelphia, PA, (out of print)

'Seabiscuit - An American Legend' by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001, Random House, Inc., New York, NY

'Sire Lines' by Abram S. Hewitt, 1977, The Blood-Horse, Lexington, KY, (out of print)

'The Spell of the Turf'  by Samuel C. Hildreth and James R. Crowell, 1926, J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, PA, (out of print)

'This Was Racing'  by Joe H. Palmer, 1953, A.S. Barnes & Co., New York, NY, (out of print)

'War Admiral - Thoroughbred Legends Volume 17' by Edwin L. Bowen, 2002, Eclipse Press, Lexington, KY

'Without Drums'  by Peter A.B Widener, 1940, G.P. Putnam & Sons, New York, NY, (out of print)