Racing's Return from the Brink: The Incredible Comeback of Old Rosebud and American Horse Racing

by James C. Nicholson

At the dawn of the twentieth century, American horse racing clung to a precarious existence. A wave of anti-gambling legislation threatened to destroy the industry until one extraordinary Thoroughbred gelding, dubbed the "Miracle Horse" by the media, helped steer it away from extinction. In Racing's Return from the Brink , James C. Nicholson tells the story of Old Rosebud within the context of horse racing and national movements of the early 1900s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985902508
• ISBN13: 9781985902503
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 188 Pages