All posts tagged "racing"
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8.7K1Arts and LeisureSeabiscuit Takes His First Step to Fame at Suffolk Downs
Seabiscuit, the knock-kneed little horse with the big heart, met the man who made him a champion at Suffolk Downs Race Course...
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18.4K3Arts and LeisureMajor Taylor, World-Famous Black Athlete in 1899, Dies in Obscurity in 1932
Fifty years before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, Major Taylor conquered bicycle racing despite death threats and deliberate injury. At the...
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14.9K2Arts and LeisureDancer’s Image, the NH Horse that Won and Lost the Kentucky Derby
The New Hampshire thoroughbred Dancer’s Image won, then lost, the Kentucky Derby in 1968 because his owner made a kind gesture to...
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17.3K8Arts and LeisureHow To Make a Maine May Basket
An old New England tradition that perhaps deserves reviving is the giving of a May basket on May Day. It was popular...
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10.2K3Business and LaborFred Marriott Sets the Speed Record in a Steam Race Car
Fred Marriott was the chief mechanic at the Stanley Steam Carriage Co., when the company owners asked him to race a steam...
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16.3K3Arts and LeisureThe Early Days of New England Skiing
When members of the Appalachian Mountain Club began hacking ski trails in New Hampshire over Barrett and Temple Mountains in 1927, New...
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