Crazy Good
Horsepower still turned the wheels of the economy in 1900, when horse racing reigned as...
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Barbra Schulte’s gift keeps on giving
You don’t need to own a horse or even care about horses to benefit from...
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Rare collection of racing books to be auctioned in New York
An historic collection of thoroughbred racing books from the library of Sir Roderick William Cameron,...
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Ernest Morris and the California Vaquero
I was recently introduced to Ernie Morris via El Vaquero, a treasure of a book...
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Elmer Kelton: Winding trail of a Texas writer
I would rather read than write. Until a few weeks ago, because of a yearlong...
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A taste for books
My pup Fergus still has an appetite for the printed word, and I am happy...
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Poetry in motion
Dylan Thomas won. Yeats lost. Those were the headlines in Thoroughbred racing on Sunday. Irish-bred...
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Water for Elephants
Believe me, you’ll love Water for Elephants – with liberty horses, elephants, dogs, the Benzini...
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Bob and Helen Kleberg of King Ranch
Following a presentation at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame several years ago, someone innocently mentioned...
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Heritage of unusual recipes
In the early 1990s, I was invited on a three-day roundup at Helen Groves’ Silverbrook...
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