150 years of racing in Saratoga: little known stories and facts from America's most historic racing city

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First Things First -- Whichone : The "Other" Horse in the 1930 Travers -- Filly for the Course -- A Pair of Dead-Heats Travers -- Travers Trainer Mary Hirsch Stands Alone -- Nineteenth-Century Steeplechasing and Hurdles Racing -- Leading Jockeys and Trainers, 1900-1960 -- A History of the Flash Stakes -- Saratoga's Top Fifteen Fields -- Common Errors About Saratoga Racing -- Hopeful and Spinaway Winner Tanya -- Surprising Winners : Upset, Jim Dandy and Onion -- An Ode to the Popular Molly Brant -- The Notorious Gottfried Walbaum -- East versus West in the 1879 Travers -- Things to Know About Saratoga -- Three Equine Meteors -- A History of the Saratoga Cup -- Gates Closed on Union Avenue -- Record-Setting Checkmate -- Appendix: Hall of Fame and Other Champion Horses that Broke Their Maidens at Saratoga.;"Since the inaugural meeting was held in August 1863, Saratoga Springs has been the scene of memorable races, often featuring legends of the sport. Although some of the epic moments are still familiar today, such as Upset's defeat of Man o' War in the 1919 Sanford Memorial, many of the triumphs and defeats that were once famous have been forgotten. Few remember the filly Los Angeles, who thrived at Saratoga, winning sixteen stakes races, or the reasons why the track was closed three times for a total of six years. Authors Allan Carter and Mike Kane take a look back at these and other important but neglected stories and present statistics from the pre-NYRA years and a rundown of the greatest fields assembled at America's oldest track"-- First Things First -- Whichone : The "Other" Horse in the 1930 Travers -- Filly for the Course -- A Pair of Dead-Heats Travers -- Travers Trainer Mary Hirsch Stands Alone -- Nineteenth-Century Steeplechasing and Hurdles Racing -- Leading Jockeys and Trainers, 1900-1960 -- A History of the Flash Stakes -- Saratoga's Top Fifteen Fields -- Common Errors About Saratoga Racing -- Hopeful and Spinaway Winner Tanya -- Surprising Winners : Upset, Jim Dandy and Onion -- An Ode to the Popular Molly Brant -- The Notorious Gottfried Walbaum -- East versus West in the 1879 Travers -- Things to Know About Saratoga -- Three Equine Meteors -- A History of the Saratoga Cup -- Gates Closed on Union Avenue -- Record-Setting Checkmate -- Appendix: Hall of Fame and Other Champion Horses that Broke Their Maidens at Saratoga.