Racing Maxims and Methods of "Pittsburgh Phil" (George E. Smith)
Author: George E. Smith
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780870190438
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Author: George E. Smith
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780870190438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George E. Smith
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George E. Smith
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George E. Smith
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 126
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780896505063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Cole
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
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Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1580425941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis legendary classic, originally published in 1908, and still sought after today, reveals the observations and handicapping techniques of Pittsburg Phil, AKA George Smith, the most successful handicapper of his time. Smith won over $1.7 million, a fortune in the early part of the 20th century. The author covers topics as time handicapping, class and weight, honest jockeys, effect of drugs on performance, the impact of time and weight, and includes dozens of winning tips on successful handicapping. The book contains some of the best horseplaying advice ever and has stood the test of time for generations of horseplayers. The basic principles of beating the track are the same today as before, with readers getting a chance to learn from one of the greatest horse bettors ever.
Author: Steven A. Riess
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011-06-24
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0815651546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport became a national industry, the New York metropolitan area, along with the resort towns of Saratoga Springs (New York) and Long Branch (New Jersey), remained at the center of horse racing with the most outstanding race courses, the largest purses, and the finest thoroughbreds. Riess narrates the history of horse racing, detailing how and why New York became the national capital of the sport from the mid-1860s until the early twentieth century. The sport’s survival depended upon the racetrack being the nexus between politicians and organized crime. The powerful alliance between urban machine politics and track owners enabled racing in New York to flourish. Gambling, the heart of racing’s appeal, made the sport morally suspect. Yet democratic politicians protected the sport, helping to establish the State Racing Commission, the first state agency to regulate sport in the United States. At the same time, racetracks became a key connection between the underworld and Tammany Hall, enabling illegal poolrooms and off-course bookies to operate. Organized crime worked in close cooperation with machine politicians and local police officers to protect these illegal operations. In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing’s heyday.
Author: United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1430
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Dizikes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780803266414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rodeøhorses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his stirrups and thrust his weight far forward. Traditionalists laughed at first and dismissed him as a novelty, but as he came to dominate racing on both sides of the Atlantic, his style of riding became widely imitated, and his famous ?forward seat? remains universally practiced to this day. Sloan?s place in racing lore and popular culture was cemented in 1904 when George M. Cohan wrote and starred in Little Johnny Jones, a Broadway musical based on Sloan?s rise and fall in England. John Dizikes?s portrait of Sloan (1874?1933) shows a small-town, hard-luck, midwestern boy who became an overnight sensation and an international celebrity in a world of breeders, bookmakers, gamblers, hustlers, bluebloods, and princes. As the King of Jockeys in the sport of kings, Sloan lived in high style, until he was banned from British racing and forced to eke out a living on the margins of the sport for thirty years.