In the fall of 1969, stable owners Ogden Phipps and Penny Chenery met in the offices of the New York Racing Association for what turned out to be one of the most important coin tosses in sports history. The winner would receive the recently born foal of the sire Bold Ruler and the mare Hasty Matelda, while the loser would get the second foal from Bold Ruler with a different mare,
Unsure with Seabiscuit's ability to truly be a champion, Charles agrees to find out by racing against Ligatori. Ligatori represents the horse that got Americans hooked on racing in the first
On a Wednesday afternoon March 20, 1935, Major Louie A. Beard addressed a mass meeting of breeders and others interested in the future of racing in Lexington. Beard outlined the plans for the purchase and development of Keeneland at the Lafayette Hotel. “This may seem like a dream, but I believe it is a dream that can be realized.”, Beard concluded. This statement was a truer prophet than most of those present realized.
4.)"Rodeo Facts: The Case Against Rodeos." Winning the Case Against Cruelty. Animal Legal Defense Fund, 1979. Web. 14 Apr. 2014. .
One of my earliest memories of Grandpa begins with us driving to the Monmouth Park Racetrack. We sure did love to go to the track and root for Julie Krone or one of our other favorite jockeys. He loved challenges, and he especially loved the challenge of picking the ponies. He would read the race programs in the Asbury Park Press and usually pre-pick most of the day's favorite horses before ever leaving the house. Still, on arrival, we always bought the program and maybe a race sheet or two before entering the track grandstand. After picking up a couple of seats right around the finish line or maybe a little past it, back to figuring he'd go. As he went, grandpa would always point out the horses that had won recently or looked like they were due. "I have a feeling about this one" he'd say.
match for the White Sox team, which was the first reason that gamblers noticed the great
Mr. Summer states, “Now I’ll read the names- heads of families first- and the men come up and take a paper out of the box. Keep the paper folded in your hand without looking at it until everyone has a turn. Everything clear (568)?” Given that today’s lottery winners receive money, a reader might assume winning in this short story would be a good thing. The men held the slips over papers nervously in their hands. After a long, breathless pause, Mr. Summers says, “All right, fellows (568).” The head of the family opens the slip of paper and the terrible fate awaits the winner. The winner was the Hutchinson family. Tessie Hutchinson instantly states, “I think we ought to start over… I tell you it wasn’t fair. You didn’t give him enough time to choose. Everybody saw that (571).” The reader may still not understand what the prize is or may be confused on why each family member now needs to draw a slip of paper from the old black
In 1925 the town authorized the Chincoteague fire department to hold a carnival during pony penning to raise funds. That year 15 colts were sold to benefit the carnival and the carnival was a huge success. Then in 1947 the Chincoteague fire department begun to build its own herd by purchasing ponies from local owners. They soon moved the herd to Assateague island where the government allowed publicly owned, not private, herds to graze on newly established Chincoteague National Wildlife refuge. In the same year Marguerite Henry published Misty of chincoteague the story soon made pony penning internationally famous. Pony penning is still held during the Chincoteague volunteer fireman's carnival. “Saltwater cowboys” herd the horses across the narrowest part of the Assateague Channel at low tide, after which they are examined by veterinarians. After a resting period, they are herded through the town to a corral at the Carnival grounds where they stay until the next days auction. The pony auction not only provides a source of revenue for the fire department, but it also serves to trim the herd’s numbers. To retain the permit to graze on the refuge, the herd must not exceed 150 horses. The island of Chincoteague was not always
The Kentucky Derby has over 160,000 people come from around the world to attend the Kentucky Derby annually, and tens of millions watch on television. The Kentucky Derby is our state’s signature event, filled with traditions, legends, and celebrities. On May 2nd, of every year, is the Kentucky Derby and my birthday. The Kentucky Derby is an athletic event, because you get to understand the roles of the jockey and thoroughbred as athletes, as well as the scientific basis for their performance, it helps provide insights and comparisons into human training, nutrition, and health. “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” was hailed as a triumph and brought rabid attention to Scanlan’s. (McKeen 149) The Kentucky Derby is a horse race that
WASHINGTON — When American Pharoah, the colt with a thunderous gallop, became the first Triple Crown winner in nearly four decades, he couldn’t have had better timing.
The lottery’s first game was the Lone Star Millions, which was a scratch-off ticket, and it was sold to the governor Ann Richard at Polk’s Feed Store in Oak Hill. First day sales as well as first week sales set a world record.
As soon as all the families had drawn, no one moved. Everyone just stood still waiting to see who got picked to be in the final drawing. "Then the voices began to say, `It's Hutchinson. It's Bill,' `Bill Hutchinson got it (The Lottery, pg. 5)." From a readers point of view this would be the greatest thing that could have ever happened to them, but not in this case. Moving forward in the story, Mrs. Hutchinson is found yelling, "It wasn't fair!" and "You didn't give him time to choose any paper he wanted (The Lottery, pg. 5)." People in the crowd were telling her to "be a good sport. All of us took the same chance (The Lottery, pg. 5)." Mrs. Hutchinson did not like the responses at all. She even demanded that her married daughter draw in the final round with them. This was only to lessen her chances of getting picked in the end.
Junkins, Donald. "'The Rocking-Horse Winner': A Modern Myth." Studies in Short Fiction 2.1 (1964): 87-89.
“Damn it all, why the hell did you have to aggro the patrolling mob?” I asked Doubleshot the Elvin hunter. The guy had repeatedly pulled aggro by attacking before the tank. The whole group was standing at the graveyard of Keisachal the Capital city of the Humans.
Ancient epics, the stories of heroes and villains, battles of good against evil, creation myths and morality tales, fascinate and intrigue us as a curious species. Passed down orally for millennia before first being recorded on any stone, papyrus, or parchment, these ballads of ancient oral tradition take us away from our ordinary lives and delve us into worlds of legendary figures. Beowulf, the saga of one such hero, most likely finds its origin around the 7th century, and the only known text of the epic was first written down in the 11th century by Christian scribes. Adherent to the Germanic heroic code - a draconian set of principles medieval Norse warriors lived by to secure the honor of their lineage - the poem celebrates the virtues of