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	<updated>2010-09-08T12:48:03Z</updated>

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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Racing at Timonium, 2010]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-09-08T12:48:03Z</updated>
		<published>2010-09-08T12:48:03Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Timonium race track" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[You can’t help but feel upbeat when you walk into the grandstand at Timonium. Especially when you make the mistake, as I did, of parking on the wrong side of the fairgrounds and having to walk through the heart of the Maryland State Fair to reach the race track. Sure, if you have been to [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Timonium Fair Racing Opens, 1887]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-09-01T12:33:01Z</updated>
		<published>2010-09-01T12:23:42Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Maryland State Fair" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Timonium race track" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="fair racing" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[This Saturday, I am heading south to spend the day at Timonium Race Track on the Maryland State Fairgrounds north of Baltimore. The racing oval at Timonium is one of the oldest in the country and the meet there is the only one held in conjunction with a fair east of the Mississippi.  The grounds [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[John Hervey on Racing Charts, 1939]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-08-26T23:24:55Z</updated>
		<published>2010-08-26T23:17:40Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Daily Racing Form" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="John Hervey" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Racing charts" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="handicapping" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The legendary race historian John Hervey wrote a column under his pen name, Salvador, for the Turf and Sport Digest in the 1930s and 1940s. I have a growing collection of these article that I have been copying and accumulating for a few years. Hervey’s writing can sometimes drift into a series of tangents but [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Who really invented race charts?]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-08-20T17:22:57Z</updated>
		<published>2010-08-19T00:42:07Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Updated August 20, 2010 In the recent DRF weekend &#8212; a must-read addition to Saturday’s Daily Racing Form &#8212; a story called &#8220;The Father of the Form&#8221; recalled the life of Frank Brunell, the mastermind and founder of the DRF. It is a well researched and written piece by Ryan Goldberg, who did a great [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Saratoga, 2010]]></title>
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		<updated>2010-08-12T14:31:17Z</updated>
		<published>2010-08-12T14:31:17Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Blame" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Funny Cide" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Mine that Bird" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Saratoga Race Course" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[There are moments in life when everything seems to fall together perfectly. This past weekend was one of those moments. Racing, friends, and a sunny day at Saratoga &#8212; what more could you ask for? String together three such days and you&#8217;ll find yourself asking what you&#8217;ve done to deserve such good fortune. I have [...]]]></summary>
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