The Blood Horse: The Source for North American Racing and Breeding for 1995-1996

Eclipse Press

Featuring original paintings by Richard Stone Reeves, Royal Blood celebrates Reeves' five decades among the finest sporting painters of the modern era with paintings of the world's greatest Thoroughbreds. Each of the 50 chapters opens with Mr. Reeves' personal recollections, which serve as a prelude to thorough historical profiles by award-winning turf writer Jim Bolus. The presentations include full pedigrees of each subject, plus sketches and photographs used by Mr. Reeves to construct his portraits.

Royal Blood: Fifty Years of Classic Thoroughbreds

Jim Bolus

History

This book contains beautiful portraits of champions in the exotic settings of 24 racecourses around the world. In addition, 21 world-class turf writers paint word portraits of the racecourses they love. Mr. Reeves adds his comments for each of the paintings.

Crown Jewels of Thoroughbred Racing: Original Paintings

Reeves, Richard Stone

Ashforth, David

Sports & Outdoors

Transcendence : The Birth of Homo Novus

Self-Help

M. F. Taylor

Personal Transformation

In Act I of the play, not realizing he is god, and suffering from amnesia and other psychiatric problems, General Peti is confined to what he thinks is a military mental ward, in therapy with Dr. Fag, alias Lucifer. 
Dr.Fag attempts various means, some questionable, in order to recover God's memory. We learn not only that God is missing in action but that the Earth Play, full of war and greed, has become melodramatic and needs better scrips, requiring a mutation in species (from Homo sapiens to Homo novus); like Lucifer engineered in the Garden of Eden Play. In addition, dr. Fag suggests he wants better press, his own play, and historical clarification of his role. 
General Peti's memory seems to flash on and off regarding his identity as God in a variety of dreams, with which Dr. Fag attempts analysis. Dr. Fag's apparent assistant, the Nurse, increasingly reveals that Dr. Fag's therapy is limited, and she begins to have a more assertive role in the process. We discover the Nurse is actually the Great Goddess who assumes a variety of roles in the play as Nurse, Kali, and Shakti (and has also played roles as Eve and the Great Mother), and takes over this Dream Play, becoming instrumental in God's recovery. 
We learn in Act II that God's Therapy takes place in Heaven's Dungeon, at the Academy of Gods in the Celestial City. General Ignorance has taken command of Heaven, and the purpose of recovering God's memory and power is to overthrow General Ignorance from Heaven's Throne so we can all have a better quality of Play of Earth. 
This comedy-farce is really an allegory for the fall of Spirit into matter (involution) and the climb back through mankind's evolution of consciousness (in this humorous context). The Play is about enlightenment; awakening from a lower order act of who we think we are to a higher order of Being. 
Don't miss the Introduction. It's written as a long humorous letter to Woody Allen attempting to explain the play and to awake Woody to the play's potential as a movie or musical. 
The book also contains an extensive Glossary of terms relating the play and to the philosophical, existential, and spiritual issues involved with enlightenment and higher consciousness.

God's Therapy & Cure By S. D. Lucifer

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, M. F.

Dramas & Plays

Personal and social Transformation

World In Denial

Product Description 
Man o' War didn't compete in the1920 Kentucky Derby because owner Sam Riddle thought the distance was too long for a young three-year-old. But nearly two decades later, Riddle had a change of heart. In 1937, he agreed to run War Admiral, a son of the great Man o' War, at Churchill Downs. War Admiral went on to sweep the Triple Crown and established himself as Man o' War's best racing son. Veteran racing historian Edward L. Bowen, biographer of Man o' War, chronicles the exploits of War Admiral, including the colt's historic battle with the great Seabiscuit and War Admiral's success at stud. 
 Review 
"Bowen is a master craftsman of the written word, and he has produced a riveting look at the 1937 Triple Crown winner." --Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar 
 About the Author 
Edward L. Bowen is the author of more than twenty books on Thoroughbred racing history. He was a staff member of the weekly trade publication The Blood Horse for some thirty years, including seventeen as managing editor and five as editor-in-chief. He was also editor of The Canadian Horse for two years. Bowen served as president of the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation from 1994 through 2018. Bowen has received various honors within the world of Thoroughbred and sports journalism and authorship, including an Eclipse Award for magazine writing, the Charles Engelhard Award from the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association, the Old Hilltop Award from Pimlico Race Course, the Walter Haight Award from the National Turf Writers Association, and the gold medal designation in Foreword's sports category.

War Admiral: Man o' War's Greatest Son (Thoroughbred Legends)

Bowen, Edward

Individual Sports

Great Horse Racing Mysteries digs beneath the surface of some of the sport's most intriguing cases, including the death by poisoning of the great Australian champion Phar Lap; the shooting of William Woodward by his wife Ann, owners of the great horse Nashua; the disqualification of 1960 Derby winner Dancer's Image (was he drugged?); the theft and disappearance in 1983 of Shergar, Europe's best-known racehorse and stallion; and the scandalous financial collapse of Calumet Farm after the death by euthanasia of Alydar, one of the world's most successful sires.John McEvoy researched several unsolved mysteries of the racing world— murder...suicide...arson...fraud—and recounts some of horse racing's strangest, most fascinating tales. 
In this updated edition, veteran turf writer Lenny Shulman adds to the intrigue by exploring the mysterious death of the troubled jockey Chris Antley, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness aboard Charismatic, and Big Brown's stunning collapse in the Belmont after cruising to winsin the first two legs of the Triple Crown.

Great Horse Racing Mysteries

Biographies & Memoirs

McEvoy, John

True Crime

Man o' War (Thoroughbred Legends)

Man o’ War has been acclaimed as the greatest racehorse of all time, and nearly three-quarters of a century after his death his legend continues to grow. In Man o’ War, veteran racing historian Edward L. Bowen recounts the life and times of “Big Red.” 
Bowen traces not only Man o’ War’s life but also those of the people connected to him—his breeder, August Belmont II; his trainer, Louis Feustel; and his famed owner, Samuel D. Riddle—weaving their stories into that of the great horse. 
Man o’ War became the greatest sports hero of his era, mentioned with the same reverence as Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Red Grange. Man o’ War’s legend began at age two when he won nine of ten starts. Due to his great popularity, his only loss was surrounded by rumor and intrigue. Man o’ War never knew defeat again. He dominated his rivals at every turn, even winning one race by a recorded 100 lengths. 
Retired to stud in Kentucky, Man o’ War welcomed tens of thousands of fans to Faraway Farms where faithful groom Will Harbut would regale visitors with tales of Man o’ War’s exploits. The sons and daughters of Man o’ War—including Triple Crown winner War Admiral—and their descendants carry on his legend in the Thoroughbred breed today. 
This edition includes a new afterword by the author.

Americas

Dominating victories, great duels, and astounding rallies make up some of horse racing's greatest moments. Award-winning racing writer Edward L. Bowen captures these and more in At the Wire, a compilation nearly thirty races plus Breeders' Cup highlights that have earned a solid place in America's Turf history. Bowen describes the enormity of the triple dead heat in the 1944 Carter Handicap. He tells the unforgettable tale of the 1973 Belmont Stakes, in which national hero Secretariat ended a twenty-five-year drought of Triple Crown winners with a spectacular thirty-one-length victory. The author pays homage to the running battle between Affirmed and Alydar and its Triple Crown conclusion at the Belmont Stakes in 1978. For the updated edition, the author has included chapters on the 1995 Breeders' Cup Classic, in which Cigar capped a perfect 10-0 season, earning Horse of the Year honors; the 2009 Breeders' Cup Classic, in which the mare Zenyatta won a spectacular race to remain unbeaten in her career; and the 2015 Belmont Stakes, which highlights the greatness of American Pharoah as he became the first Triple Crown in 37 years. Bowen writes of outstanding horses at their best in fierce competition and of their time and place in American racing history.

At the Wire

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