Book - Women of the Year: Ten Fillies Who Achieved Horse Racing's Highest Honor
Ten great American Thoroughbred fillies and mares are featured in this book include the American Thoroughbred females who were crowned `Horse of the Year' (or its equivalent back before there was such a title). Miss Woodford (who won the title twice), Imp, Beldame, Regret, Twilight Tear, Busher, Moccasin, All Along, Lady's Secret, and Azeri. According to the various authors who wrote a chapter for "Women of the Year," female Thoroughbreds weren't usually chosen for top honors unless there was no outstanding Thoroughbred male for a particular year.
The authors of this book all wrote for the weekly magazine, "Blood Horse" and their individual chapters range from pleasant to scintillating. Judy L. Marchman's story of Moccasin, who was the first and only two-year-old filly to win the "Horse of the Year" title. During her 1965 two-year-old season, the big chestnut filly defeated everything that set foot on the track with her, including the boys. She ended her juvenile season "with a record of eight wins in eight starts, with a combined margin of victory of fifty-one lengths..."
"Women of the Year" includes black-and-white photographs of its four-legged subjects, along with their various human connections.
New unused. Hard cover
Product details
- Publisher : ECLIPSE PRESS; 1st Edition (October 25, 2004)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 202 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1581501161
- ISBN-13 : 978-1581501162
- Dimensions : 6.38 x 0.88 x 9.34 inches