Horseracing
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On August 28, 1830, an extraordinary contest took place on the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in Maryland. It was not a conventional horse race, nor was it a competition between two locomotives. Instead, a living horse found itself competing against one of the most remarkable inventions of the Industrial Revolution: Peter…
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On this day 36 years ago, gunmen stole the champion Irish race horse Shergar from a stud farm owned by the Aga Khan in County Kildare, Ireland. The five-year-old thoroughbred stallion, named European horse of the year in 1981, was worth $13.5 million and commanded stud fees of approximately $100,000. The most famous and valuable…
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