Selected Bibliography

Newspapers and Periodicals Consulted

Manuscripts and Collections

Adam Harper v. J. Wallace Harper. 1873. Scott County Order Book 32, folio 606. microfilm reel 994563, Kentucky Department of Libraries, Frankfort.

Clay, Josephine, Papers, University of Kentucky Libraries, Special Collections and Archives.

Hervey, John. “W. S. Vosburgh: An Appreciation, Written for the Jockey Club.” 1935. Keeneland Library, Lexington.

“Notes by Harry Worcester Smith, Lordvale Library, 1930, to Accompany the Race Horses of America First Number by Edward Troye (1808–1874).” 1867. Keeneland Library, Lexington.

Spurr, Richard Alexander, Papers. Special Collections, University of Kentucky.

Winkfield Casey, Liliane. Oral history taken by Maryjean Wall, Cincinnati, September 12, 2002. In possession of author.

Woodburn Stud Farm, 1864. Records of Woodburn Farm, Woodford County, KY. Copy in possession of the author and given to her by the late Dr. A. J. Alexander.

Books and Articles

Primary Sources

The American Racing Manual. Chicago: Daily Racing Form Publishing Co., various years.

Busbey, Hamilton, “The Running Turf in America.” Harper’s New Monthly 41 (July 1870): 245–55.

Busbey, Hamilton. Recollections of Men and Horses. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1907.

Crickmore, H. G. Racing Calendars, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865. New York: printed privately by W. C. Whitney, 1901.

Harrison, Lowell H., ed. Kentucky’s Governors, 1792–1985. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Hatch, Alden, and Foxhall Keene. Full Tilt: The Sporting Memoirs of Foxhall Keene. New York: Derrydale, 1938.

Hervey, John. Racing in America, 1665–1865. Vol. 2. New York: Jockey Club, 1944.

Knight, Thomas A., and Nancy Lewis Greene. Country Estates of the Blue Grass. Lexington: privately published, 1905.

Krik’s Guide. New York: H. G. Crickmore, 1877–1878.

Lacer, Genevieve Baird. Edward Troye: Painter of Thoroughbred Stories. Louisville: Harmony House, 2006.

Menke, Frank G. Down the Stretch: The Story of Colonel Matt J. Winn. New York: Smith & Durrell, 1945.

Perrin, William Henry. History of Fayette County, Kentucky. Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1882.

Ranck, George W. History of Lexington, Kentucky. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1872.

Trevathan, Charles E. The American Thoroughbred. New York: Macmillan, 1905.

Vosburgh, W. S. Cherry and Black: The Career of Mr. Pierre Lorillard on the Turf. New York: privately published, 1916.

Vosburgh, W. S. Racing in America, 1866–1921. New York: Scribner Press, 1922.

Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed. The American Turf: An Historical Account of Racing in the United States. New York: Historical Co., 1898.

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Astor, Aaron. “No Gun, No Vote: Violence and the Fifteenth Amendment in Kentucky.” Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Louisville, November 2009.

Bay, Mia. The White Image in the Black Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Betts, John Rickards. “Sporting Journalism in Nineteenth-Century America.” American Quarterly 5, no. 1 (Spring 1953): 39–56.

Biesel, Jennifer. “The American Upper Class and the American Horse Industry from 1865–1929.” Ph.D. diss., Middle Tennessee State University, 2005.

Black, David. The King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont. New York: Dial, 1981.

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