Part III – Reaching the Finish Line: the Final Act of a Nonfiction BookYour desk is littered with notes and piles of papers. Books are stacked on any available surface, waiting for the next question t
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Part II – Finding Your Idea
a HomeI got the idea to write this book on Sir
Barton in the summer of 2013. At the time, my kids were still young, one in
kindergarten and the other in preschool, and I
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Disclaimer: My experience is limited to writing nonfiction. If you want insight into the process of writing and then publishing fiction, you will find more on that pursuit via other avenues. For the p
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Although
horse racing remains a largely male-dominated world, women continue to break
down barriers as jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders.In honor of
International Women’s Day, here are a few
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If you have yet to visit the "Our Story" section of our website, you probably wouldn't know that we are huge baseball fans; in fact, our owners all first met on a baseball diamond over 20 ye
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It began at 12:06 a.m. on May 31, 2017, with a tersely
worded tweet of 43 characters by none other than President Donald J.
Trump: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”The result was a viral
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When news broke early this decade of poor situations for multiple retired racehorses, concerned horsemen came together to create the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA) to raise the standard of race
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Thanksgiving
weekend is highlighted by a smorgasbord of great racing each year including the
Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, a race for 2-year-olds who have an eye on the
Triple Crown.Read on for
eig
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Bucchero, from the first crop of the rising superstar Kantharos, was a Multiple Grade 2 winner with back to back victories in the Woodford Stakes at Keeneland in 2017 and 2018. He earned $947,936 on T
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Ironhorse Racing Stable has been campaigning thoroughbreds throughout the country and world since 2007 racing in multiple Breeders' Cups and as far away as Royal Ascot. Established by two Columbia Uni
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The Triple Crown.Few
phrases in thoroughbred racing evoke the same thrill those words do. “He is moving like
a tremendous machine…” The
Kentucky Derby.“And, here it is,
the thirty-seven-year wait
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Of
all the longshots to achieve unlikely glory in the storied history of
thoroughbred racing at Saratoga, there is no more astonishing rags-to-riches
odyssey than that of the founding father of Sar
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