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	<updated>2012-02-03T17:30:33Z</updated>

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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Gladiator, ‘The Big Bankroll’, and the Toboggan Handicap, 1921]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-02-03T16:49:31Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-03T17:30:33Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Of all the shady characters involved in American racing over the last century, few can match Arnold Rothstein, aka &#8220;The Big Bankroll.&#8221; Rothstein invested in just about every racket imaginable from his home base in New York City up until his death in 1928. He funded liquor operations during prohibition, was a major investor in [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Vote &#8220;Yes&#8221; to Horse Racing in New Jersey, 1939]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-02-02T13:55:26Z</updated>
		<published>2012-01-26T12:30:19Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="horse racing history" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="New Jersey Racing" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Once in a while, something interesting falls in your lap. I was going through a stack of old racing publications, the same stack that produced last week&#8217;s post, and found a brochure filed among the pages of one old magazine from 1940. The brochure was published by the &#8216;Horse Racing Amendment Association of New Jersey&#8217; [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Ten Cool Horse Racing Ads from 1968]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-01-20T22:51:58Z</updated>
		<published>2012-01-20T17:15:57Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Advertisements" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Bold Ruler" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Charlie Whittingham" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Dr. Fager" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Gulfstream Park" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="horse racing" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="horse racing history" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Keeneland Race Course" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Nerud, John" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Pimlico Race Track" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Raise a Native" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Thoroughbred Record" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not much of a memorabilia collector but one thing that I am a sucker for are old racing publications. I have in my office an ever growing stack of the Thoroughbred Record, Bloodhorse, and the National Turf and Sport Digest. Sometimes, when I&#8217;m searching for something to write about, I&#8217;ll pull out an old [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Ruthless and the Barbarous Battalion]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-01-13T13:39:53Z</updated>
		<published>2012-01-13T16:30:50Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="horse racing history" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Ruthless" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="The Barbarous Battalion" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Saturday, Aqueduct hosts the 34th running of The Ruthless for three-year-old fillies. The race is named for a filly who ran in the 1860s but didn&#8217;t find her rightful place in Racing&#8217;s Hall of Fame until 1975. Ruthless entered my mind recently as I was reading through Walter Vosburgh&#8217;s Racing in America. Vosburgh called [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Kevin</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Walter Vosburgh&#8217;s Racing in America, 1866-1921]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-01-12T16:55:03Z</updated>
		<published>2012-01-11T14:00:00Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="horse racing history" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Racing in America 1866 to 1921" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="thoroughbred racing history" /><category scheme="http://colinsghost.org" term="Walter Vosburgh" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Walter Vosburgh&#8217;s Racing in America, 1866-1921 is one of the most important texts on racing history. The book covers a period in American racing when it evolved into the sport that we know today.  The racing scene of 1866 would be foreign to the race fan of 2012.  By 1921, the year Vosburgh ends his [...]]]></summary>
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