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Abdallah (horse)
Adelman, Melvin
African American Cemetery No. 2
African Americans
class separation
as community leaders
discrimination and racism in the North
displacement through racism
as horsemen
jockeys (see black jockeys)
as labor force
mentoring young jockeys
sued Metairie Race Course
trainers (see black trainers)
as racial group
violence suffered by
white fear of “Negro rule,”
Agnew-Perkins legislation
agriculture
Aiken, SC
Airdrie
estate
Iron Works
Alarm (horse)
Alexander, Robert
Alexander, Robert Aitcheson
Allegheny Mountains
Allen, Dudley
Allen, James Lane
Alvey, R. Gerald
American Derby
American Jockey Club
American Stud Book
Anaconda copper mines
Anderson, George “Spider,”
Ansel (horse)
antebellum
nostalgic notion of
time period
antiracing
sentiment
legislation
architecture
Arcola (horse)
Aristides (horse)
Ascot Gold Cup
Ashland estate
Ashland Oaks Derby
Asteroid (horse)
Astor, Aaron
Astor, John Jacob
Astor, William
auction pools
auctions, equine
Australian (horse)
Auvergne
Babylon, Long Island
Baldwin, Elias “Lucky,”
Ballot (horse)
Barnes, Shelby “Pike,”
baseball
Bathgate, Charles William
Bathgate estate
Beckham, James Crepps Wickliffe
Behave Yourself (horse)
Belle Meade Plantation
Belmont, August
Belmont, August, II
Belmont, Perry
Belmont Park
Belmont Stakes
Ben Ali (horse)
Ben Brush (horse)
betting shops
Black, David
Blackburn, Luke Pryor
black jockeys
Black Patch War
Black Toney (horse)
black trainers
Black Whirlwind (horse). See Domino
Blight, David
bloodstock
bloodstock agents
Blue Book of Etiquette
Bluegrass
breeders
as cradle of racehorse
economy
gentry class
grass
horse country
horse farms
horsemen
land
marketing of
old guard
soil and water
as Southern
as Western
Board of Control
Bolin, James Duane
Bonnie Scotland (horse)
border states
Kentucky
Missouri
Borries, Frank, Jr.
Bosque Bonita Stud
Boston
Bourbon County
Bourbon Democrats
Bourbon whiskey
Bowen, Edward L.
Boyer, Paul
Bradley, Edward R.
Bramlette, Thomas E.
Breeding Bureau
breeding farms. See also specific farms
Britton, Mary
Britton, Tommy
Brodhead, Lucas
Broker’s Tip (horse)
Brookdale Farm
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn Jockey Club
Brown, Edward Dudley
Brown, John Y.
Brown, Sam
“Brown Dick” (nickname). See also Brown, Edward Dudley
Bruce, Benjamin
Bruce, John
Bruce, Margaret Ross Hutton
Bruce, Rebecca
Bruce, Sanders
Bryan, William Jennings
Bubbling Over (horse)
Buford, Abraham (“Abe”)
Buford, Thomas
Buford, William S.
Burgoo King (horse)
Burgoyne, Battle of
Burns, America
Burns, Isaac. See Murphy, Isaac
Burns, James
Busbey, Hamilton
Byrnes, Matt
Cabell’s Dale
calcium carbonate
Calumet Farm
Cambridge University
Camden, Johnson N., Jr.
Camp Nelson
Canadian Sportsman
Cap and Bells (horse)
capital investment
capitalists
Casey, Liliane
Cassidy, M. A.
Castleton Farm
Cella-Adler-Tilles gang
Celt (horse)
Chicago
Chinn, Jack Pendleton
Churchill, Winston
Churchill Downs
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Enquirer
Civil Rights Act
Civil War
Claiborne Farm
Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Jr.
Clark, Thomas
Clark, William
Clark Street (Chicago)
Clay, Brutus J.
Clay, Ezekial
Clay, Henry
Clay, John
Clay, Josephine
Clay, Woodford
coaches (carriages)
four-in-hands
coaching in English tradition
Coaching Club American Oaks
coal mining
Colin (horse)
colonels, Southern
Colonial Revival period
colonization movement
Commando (horse)
Coney Island racetrack
Confederate
identity for Kentucky
states
Confederate memorial movement
Consolidation Coal Company
Corrigan, Ed
corruption fund
Coulter, E. Merton
country estates
Country Estates of the Bluegrass
Coxey, Jacob S.
Coxey’s Army
Crab Orchard, KY
Croker, Richard
Cunningham, Everett
Custer, Elizabeth
Custer, George Armstrong
Daily Racing Form
Daingerfield, Foxhall
Daly, Marcus
Darkey
dash races
Day Star (horse)
Deedes, Henry
Deer Park
Delhi (horse)
Delmonico
Democrats. See also Bourbon Democrats
Dew Drop (horse)
disease. See slipping disease
disenfranchisement
Dixiana Farm
Dixie (horse)
Dizikes, John
Domino (horse)
Donerail (horse)
Doty (horse)
Douglas Park
draft riots
Drape, Joe
Dudley, W. A.
Dwyer, Mike
Dwyer, Phil
Eastern turf world. See New York: racing; New Jersey: racing
Eclipse (horse)
economic development of Kentucky
economic impact
of horse business
of foal disease
Effendi (horse)
elections
Elizabethtown, KY
Eller, Ron
Ellerslie Farm
Elliott, Joe
Elliott, John Milton
Elmendorf Farm
Elysian Fields
Emancipation Proclamation
Enquirer (horse)
Epsom Derby
Erdenheim Stud
Ettensohn, Frank
eugenics
Eugenics Record Office
Europe
Fashion (horse)
fashionable dress at race tracks
Fasig-Tipton Company
Fayette County
Ferrill, London
Fifteenth Amendment
financial panic
of 1837
of 1857
of 1873
of 1877
of 1893
Fisk, Jim
floral horseshoe
Flying Ebony (horse)
foal disease. See slipping disease
Fourteenth Amendment
Fox, John, Jr.
Foxhall (horse)
Frankfort, KY
Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort Tri-Weekly Yeoman
Franklin, Benjamin
free towns. See hamlets
Freedmen’s Bureau
Freehling, William W.
Freeland (horse)
French pools
Futurity
Galt House
gamblers
gambling
bookmakers
fraudulent practices
practice of
prohibition of
Garfield Park
Garrison, Edward “Snapper,”
Gates, John Wayne “Bet a Million,”
Gay Nineties
genteel tradition
gentlemen farmers
gentry class
Georgetown, KY
Gettysburg, Battle of
Gettysburg Address
Gibson, Mrs. Hart
Gideon, Dave
“Gilpatrick” (nickname)
Glencoe (horse)
Goebel, William
Gone with the Wind
Gould, Jay
Grand Prix de Paris
Grant, Ulysses
Gratz, Benjamin
Gratz Park (Lexington, KY)
Gravesend racetrack
Greek Revival style
Green Hills
Grinstead, James A.
guerrillas, Civil War
Haggin, James Ben Ali
Hamburg (horse)
Hamburg Place
Hamilton, Tony
hamlets
Hancock, Arthur B.
Hanover (horse)
Hardin, P. Wat
Harding, William Giles
Harkness, Lamon
Harlow, Alvin
Harlow, Luke Edward
Harper, Adam (brother of “Uncle” John)
Harper, Adam (nephew of “Uncle” John)
Harper, Betsy
Harper, Frank
Harper, Jacob
Harper, John W. (great-nephew of John)
Harper, J. Wallace
Harper, “Uncle” John
Harper’s magazine
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Harper’s Weekly
Harriman, Edward Henry
Harriman, Mary Williamson Averell
Harriman, William Averell
Harrison, Benjamin
Harry Bassett (horse)
Hart-Agnew Bill
Hawkins, Abe
Hawthorne Race Course
Haymarket Square
Hearst, George
heat racing
hemp
Hervey, John
Himyar (horse)
Hindoo (horse)
Hira (horse)
Hira Villa
history as memory. See memory as history
Hollingsworth, Kent
Homestake mines
“Homesteads of the Blue-Grass,”
Homicide North and South
horse country. See under Bluegrass
horse industry
hospitality
Hotaling, Edward
Hughes, Charles Evan
Hunter, John
iconography
identity
Southern
Western
Idle Hour Farm
Ill-Used, The (horse)
Illustrated Sporting News
industrialists
Ingleside Stud
In Old Kentucky
Iroquois
Italianate style
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, William
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerome, Leonard
Jerome Edgar (horse)
Jerome Park
Jersey Derby
Jewell, James Rodes
Jewell, Malcolm
Jim Crow
Jockey Club
jockey registry
jockeys. See also black jockeys; white jockeys
Johnston, Annie Fellow
Jones, Brereton
Jones, Elizabeth “Libby,”
Jordan, Eli
journalists
juleps
Kansas City Star
Keene, Foxhall
Keene, James R.
Kentucky
Bluegrass region (see Bluegrass)
breeders (see under Bluegrass)
horse country (see under Bluegrass)
eastern
Kentucky (horse)
Kentucky Association racetrack
Kentucky-bred horses
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Farmer and Breeder
Kentucky Gazette
Kentucky General Assembly
Kentucky Importing Company
Kentucky Leader
Kentucky Live Stock Record
Kentucky Racing Commission Act
Kentucky River Coal Co.
Kentucky Senate
Kentucky Stud Farm Association
Kingfisher (horse)
Kingman (horse)
Kingston (horse)
Kinkead, F. P.
Klair, William Frederick (“Billy”)
Klotter, James C.
Knight, Thomas A.
Knott, J. Proctor
Ku Klux Klan
La Belle Farm
labor
landowners
landscape
of imagination
physical
Latonia Race Course
lawlessness
Leamington (horse)
Lecomte (horse)
Lee, Robert E.
legislatures, state
Lewis, Isaac
Lewis, Oliver
Lewis and Clark
Lewisohn, Jesse
Lexington, racing in
Lexington (horse)
Lexington Herald
Lexington Leader
Lexington Observer and Reporter
Lexington Transcript
Liebman, Bennett
limestone rock and soil
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln Lodge No. 2
Little Bighorn, Battle of
Little Colonel
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Live Stock Record
log cabin/home
London Daily Telegraph
Long Branch, NJ. See also Monmouth Park
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (horse)
Long Island, NY
Look, David M.
Lorillard, George
Lorillard, Peter
Lorillard, Pierre
Lost Cause
Louisiana Jockey Club
Louisville
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Louisville Commercial
Louisville Jockey Club
Louisville Journal
Lucas, Marion B.
Luke Blackburn (horse)
Lyman, J. Grant
lynching. See racial violence
Madden, John Edward
Magnolia (horse)
Manning, Landon
Man o’ War (horse)
mansions
mare reproductive loss syndrome. See also slipping disease
market for horses
marketing of the horse industry
Marshall, Anne
Maryland
Maskette (horse)
Mayo, John C. C.
McCormick harvesting-machine factory
McDaniel, David
McGrath, Hal Price
McGrathiana Farm
McKinnon, John J.
McLaughlin, Jim
Megowan Street (Lexington, KY)
memory as history
Messley, Annie
Metairie Jockey Club
Metairie Race Course
Midway, KY
Mikado
millionaires
mining kings
Miss Woodford (horse)
Mollie McCarthy (horse)
Monmouth Cup
Monmouth Park
Moore, T. G.
Moore, W. A.
Moorehouse, Edward
Morgan, John Hunt
Morgan, John Hunt, memorial
Morgan, J. P.
Morning Telegraph
Morris, Francis
Morris Park racetrack
Morrissey, John
Morton, Levi
mountain feuds
mule racing
Mulligan, Dennis
Mundy, Sue
Munsey’s Magazine
Murphy, Isaac
Murphy, Lucy
My Old Kentucky Home
Myrdal, Gunner
Nantura (horse)
Nantura Farm
Nashville Union and American
Nebula (horse)
“Negro ball,”
neo-Confederate
New Jersey
breeders
farms
racing
new money
New Orleans
New Orleans Louisianian
New Orleans Times
New York
breeders and farms
media
racing
society
New York Athletic Club
New York Daily Tribune
New Yorkers
New York Herald
New York State Assembly
New York Stock Exchange
New York Sun
New York Times
New York Tribune
New York World
night riders
Norfolk (horse)
Northern Pacific Railroad
North-South racing contests
nostalgia
Nursery Stud
offtrack wagering
Old Rosebud (horse)
Old South. See also plantation: myth
Ordovician limestone
Ordovician Period
Osgood, George
outlaws
Overton, Monk
Owings, Richard
pari-mutuel betting and pools
pari-mutuel machines
Parker, Tom
Parole (horse)
Patchen Wilkes Farm
Paterson, Mrs.
Paterson racecourse
Patrick, Gilbert. See Gilpatrick
Paul Jones (horse)
pedigree experts
pedigrees, equine
Pennant (horse)
Pennsylvania
Pepper, James E.
Percy-Gray law
Perkins, James “Soup,”
Peter (house servant)
Peter Pan (horse)
Peytona (horse)
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Sunday Mercury
Phoenix Hotel
phosphate
Pimlico Race Course
Pinkerton detectives
“Pittsburg Phil” (George E. Smith)
Planet (horse)
plantation
literature
myth (see also Old South)
owners
Plaudit (horse)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Poa pratensis
poolrooms
pool sellers
Post, Emily
power
locus of
relations
struggle
Preakness Stud
Printing House Square
Proctor Knott (horse)
professional class
Progressive Era
Progressive reformers. See also social reformers
Pryor, Sam
Pryor, Will
Purdy, John F.
Quantrill, William Clarke
race war
racial violence
racing
campaign to shut down (see also Progressive reformers; social reformers)
revival in the North
raids on horse farms
railroad
industrialists
strikes
transportation of horses
Railroad YMCA
Raitz, Karl B.
Rancho del Paso
Reconstruction
Redfield, H. V.
red-light district
Reed, Charles
Regret (horse)
Republicans
Reynolds, Mrs. Hunt
Rhadamanthus (horse)
Rhinodyne (horse)
Richards, Alexander Keene
Right to be Well Born
Riley (horse)
Robertson, William
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rothschilds
Runnymede (horse)
Runnymede Farm
Salina (horse)
Salvator (horse)
Sanford, Milton Holbrook
Saratoga Cup
Saratoga Race Course (and predecessor)
Saratoga Springs
as “queen of watering places,”
scale of weights
Scott, Will
Scythian
Secretariat (horse)
sectional
rivalry and animosity
healing
segregation
“separate but equal” ruling
Seventh Cavalry
Sewell
Shaler, Nathan Southgate
Sheepshead Bay, NY
Sheridan, Phil
shorthorn cattle
Silver Fox of Wall Street. See Keene, James R.
Simms, Willie
Simpson, Joseph Cairn
Sir Barton (horse)
Sir Henry (horse)
Skedaddle (horse)
slaves
slave jockeys
slavery
practice of
slaveholding states
slipping disease
Smith, George E. “Pittsburg Phil,”
Smith, Peter
social reformers
Southdown sheep
Southern
identity
myth (see also plantation myth)
states
Spendthrift (horse)
Spirit of the Times
Standard Oil
Stanford, Leland
stereotypes
Stewart, Alexander T.
stock market
Stokes, Earl Dodge
Stokes, Rita Hernandez
Stonewall Farm
Story of the Great Republic
Stoval, John “Kid,”
stud farms. See breeding farms
Suburban Handicap Stakes
Sunday Silence (horse)
Sweep (horse)
Swigert, Dan
Sysonby (horse)
Tanner, David
Tara
Tarlton, L. P.
Tattersalls
Taylor, William (historian)
Taylor, William S. (Kentucky governor)
telegraph
Ten Broeck (horse)
Ten Broeck, Richard
Tennessee
horse breeders
horse country
racing
Tenny (horse)
Tevis, Lloyd
theft of horses
Third Street (Lexington, KY)
Thirteenth Amendment
Thomas, Barak
Thoroughbred racing
blackout (see also racing: campaign to shut down)
business of
culture of
expansion of
popularity of
shift to Northeast
sport of
Thoroughbred Record
Thoroughbred registry
Tiffany and Company
tobacco
Tollgate War
tourism
Transylvania University
Travers, William R.
Travers Stakes
Tremont (horse)
Trinity College
trotting horses/racing
Troye, Edward
Turf, Field and Farm
Tuxedo Park
Two Kentucky Gentlemen of the Old School
Ultimus (horse)
Union Club
Union Course (track)
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Vagrant (horse)
Valley Brook Stud
Vandal (horse)
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, William K.
Versailles, KY
Viley, John
Viley, Warren
Viley, Willa
violence
Vorhies, Pearl
Vosburgh, Walter S.
Voter (horse)
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Walker, William “Billy,”
Wallace, Mike
Waller, Altina
Wall Street
Walnut Hall Farm
Ward, William
Ward, Zeb
Warfield, Mary
Washington Post
wealth
agricultural
display of
industrial
Webster, Eugene
Webster, Richard
Weeks, Lyman
Weep No More, My Lady
weight-loss practices of jockeys
Welch, Aristides
Weldon, J. W.
Westbrook Farm
Westchester County
Western
geographic region
Kentucky seen as
racing viewed as
Western frontier
white jockeys
Whitney, Harry Payne
Whitney, William Collins
Whittaker, Walter
Wiggins, David
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Wilkes, George
Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times
Williams, James T.
Williamson, Ansel
Wills, Ridley W., II
Winkfield, James (“Jimmy”)
Winn, Matt
Winters, Theodore
Withers, David
Withers Stakes
Wizard of the Turf. See Madden, John Edward
women
as breeders and horse owners
presence at racecourses
Woodburn Farm
Woodford, Catesby
Woodford County
Woodlawn Course (track)
Wright, George
Yankee (horse)
Young, Milton
Zeb (horse)