Kentucky Horse Tales

by Michael Blowen and Old Friends (Introduction)

Overview

Ercel Ellis Jr. was born into the Thoroughbred horse business and has worked in it for seventy-five years.

He has been an owner, breeder, trainer, writer and radio broadcaster. His radio show, Horse Tales, has run for twenty years. For all his work, he won the Charles W. Engelhard Award for contributions to the industry. During his life, Ercel has amassed a trove of stories on some of the biggest names in Thoroughbred racing, like Mata Hari, Spy Song and world-famous Man o' War. He also includes stories of lesser-known horses like Dark Mirage, El Chico, Blue Peter and By Jimminy. Join Ercel as he entertains with fascinating stories from more than seven decades with Thoroughbreds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467141475
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	07/15/2019
Series:	Sports
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,042,684
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ercel Ellis Jr. has been a writer and editor for the Blood Horse and the Daily Racing Form and worked on the broadcasting shows Post Time and Horse Tales radio shows for more than sixty years; he has also recorded a CD of readings from Joe Palmer's This Was Racing. Born into the Thoroughbred horse business, he has been an owner, breeder, trainer, writer and broadcaster. He won the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeder's prestigious Charles W. Engelhard Award for contributions to the Thoroughbred industry and is an honorary member of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club.

Table of Contents

Foreword Robert W. Copelan, DVM 9

Acknowledgements 11

Introduction Michael Blowen, Old Friends Inc. 13

1 My Dad and Man o' War 15

Man o' War 16

Man o' War at Stud 21

Man o' War's Funeral 22

2 C.T. Fisher and the History of Dixiana 27

History of Dixiana 27

High Time 29

Esseff and In High 31

Sweep All and Peter Hastings 32

3 Dixiana Broodmares 35

Miss Jemima 35

Miss Prudence 41

Miss Toro 46

4 Influential Dixiana Horses 51

War Woman 51

Mata Hari 54

Spy Song 56

The Knitter 59

Fulmar 61

5 Forgotten Champions 65

Top Flight 65

Twenty Grand and Equipoise 67

Discovery 72

Stagehand 74

Menow 76

El Chico 78

Pavot 80

By Jimminy 81

Blue Peter 83

Decathlon and White Skies 85

Coaltown 87

Sweet Patootie 91

Barbizon 92

Dark Mirage 96

6 Should Have Been Champions 99

Eight Thirty 99

Swoon's Son 102

7 Three Derbys 105

Hoop Jr. 105

Reigh Count, Count Fleet, Count Turf 107

Tomy Lee 109

8 At the Sales 115

Revoked 115

Determine 117

9 Growing Up on the Russell Cave Pike 121

Dixiana 121

Allegro and Johnstown 124

Colonel Dick 127

Lexington 129

Erin Torch 132

10 Good Friends 135

Duval Headley 135

Jimmy Drymon and Here De One 136

11 The Blood-Horse and the Daily Racing Form 139

The Teaser 143

Duck Out the Door 144

Rocky 146

12 Training 149

Alice Scott 149

Thoroughbred Training Center 152

Bibliography 155

About the Author 157