![]() Bloodstock, Breeding Winners in Europe and America James Gill, 1977, hardcover w/dustjacket in mylar, 319 pgs., numerous b/w photos. Development and achievements of the notable studs of Newmarket and Sandringham, Normandy, Kildare, and Kentucky. Typical excerpt, on John E. Madden, Hamburg Place Stud Farm: " Madden's gruff commonsense made him into the most quotable of horsemen . . . 'A man is a fool to spend three years raising a horse, and less than fifteen minutes wooing the buyer.' " The section on Kentucky includes Airdrie, Elmendorf, Hamburg Place, Spendthrift, Claiborne and Stone Farms, Calumet, Greentree and CV Whitney Studs, Darby Dan. |