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The Great Match Race
The Great Match Race
Author: John Eisenberg
In the early 1800s, the notion of sport was still quite new to America that is, until a horse race changed everything. In 1823 an astonishing sixty thousand people gathered on Long Island to watch two thoroughbreds battle it out in three grueling heats, the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys, in the space of only a couple of hours. And the who...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618556120
ISBN-10: 0618556125
Publication Date: 5/5/2006
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
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