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Author : Jeremy James
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ISBN 13 : 9781873674987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Byerley Turk written by Jeremy James and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a horse born in a humble stable in the Balkans in 1678 who became the first foundation sire of the thoroughbred line.
Author : Jeremy James
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ISBN 13 : 9781873674765
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Byerley Turk written by Jeremy James and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of the most remarkable horse in history. Foaled in the lavish Ottoman stables of the Topkapl Palace in the late 1870s, this dark bay stallion was hard schooled in the disciplines of war. Until now, his remarkable story has never been told.
Author : Jeremy James
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ISBN 13 : 9781862546875
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Byerley Turk written by Jeremy James and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the most remarkable horse in history. In 1678, a beautiful mahogany bay Karaman colt is foaled in the Balkans. Yet this is no ordinary colt: he is destined to become the magnificent Byerley Turk, the first Foundation Sire of the thoroughbred line. In 1683, in diamond-and ruby-studded harness of the glittering Ottoman sipahi, the young horse fights as a charger at the Siege of Vienna. Seized as an exotic prize from the Siege of Buda three years later, he is ridden across Europe to the Royal Barracks of King James II in Hounslow, England, where he is acquired in 1687 by Captain Robert Byerley. In 1690, as a charger in the ranks of King William's army, he faces sabre and cannon at the Battle of the Boyne, but not before romping past the winning post at Downroyal and snatching the King's Plate. The stallion died at the age of 25 in 1703. Until now his story has never been told. Yet on every racecourse in the world today, his bloodline thunders on.
Author : Jeremy James
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811701556
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Byerley Turk written by Jeremy James and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the three horses that were the ancestors of the modern thoroughbred, the first and greatest was undoubtedly the Byerley Turk. This book gives an account of the life of this breed, extending from the palaces of the Ottoman Empire to the streets of London and beyond, and featuring a cast of historical figures. It begins in 1679 in a remote Balkan village, where a seyis - a penniless groom - finds himself caring for a remarkable young foal. Believing it destined for greatness, and seeing a chance to escape his own humble circumstances, he begins schooling the animal in the disciplines of war. Hewing closely to the historical record, the author goes on to trace the fortunes of the Turk and its new master: In 1682, they arrived in Istanbul, where the horse was selected for the Ottoman Empire's renowned cavalry. Ridden as a battle charger in the Turkish sieges on Vienna and Buda, it was captured, along with its groom, by a party of adventuring British aristocrats and taken back to England in 1686. In London, it was bought by Captain Robert Byerley, who rode the Turk to Ireland to take on the Jacobite forces in several pivotal encounters, including the Battle of the Boyne. Eventually, the Turk was put to stud, initiating what was to become its greatest legacy: first foundation sire of the thoroughbred line.--Publisher's description.
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Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book The General Stud-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene Sue
Publisher : Derrydale Press
ISBN 13 : 1461734681
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Godolphin Arabian written by Eugene Sue and published by Derrydale Press. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dandy story for all horse lovers and worthy rival to Marguerite Henry's enormously successful King of the Wind . Ms. Henry based her story on this very book, written in 1846 by French author and sportsman Eugene Sue. Here now is Alex de Jonge's immensely readable translation of the original tale—an imaginative mixture of fact and legend recreating the life of the Godolphin Arabian and his constant companion, Grimalkin the cat.
Author : Linda Carroll
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316432210
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Out of the Clouds written by Linda Carroll and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen. In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in "The Sport of Kings," a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed "The People's Horse" captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, Out of the Clouds -- the winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award -- unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.
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Author : Marie Joseph Eugène Sue
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Godolphin Arabian; or, The history of a thorough-bred. Originally tr. [from Deleytar. pt.1] for the 'Sunday times'. written by Marie Joseph Eugène Sue and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book The American Stud Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing full pedigree of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce.
Author : Abram Hewitt
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ISBN 13 : 9781581501445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sire Lines written by Abram Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oxford graduate and a lawyer by trade, Abram S. Hewitt held a deep fascination for equine pedigrees and genetics and wrote a series of articles examining the most influential early to mid-20th-century American stallions. These articles became Sire Lines. Eclipse Press is proud once again to offer this classic work to Thoroughbred racing enthusiasts everywhere.
