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""Accessible and absorbing . . . a narrative that extends beyond racing history. The earlier development of the English Thoroughbred in Yorkshire is complemented by the equally important though distinctive narrative of the development of the American Thoroughbred in Kentucky.""--Miriam A. Bibby, author of Invisible Ancestor: The Galloway Nag and Its Legacy ""In Reinventing the American Thoroughbred, Gary O'Dell has provided us with a masterful telling of a pivotal moment in American racing history. As the American Thoroughbred was expanding into the international arena, the plantation breeding era was ending, and the great breeders of our heat-racing gallopers faded with it. O'Dell has given us an understanding of those times and one of its gifted breeders, Alexander Keene Richards, and his ill-fated Arabian program. This is a great story, and O'Dell tells it exceptionally well . . . a fascinating and valuable volume that all serious turf historians, breeders, and Thoroughbred enthusiasts should include in their library.""--Kathleen H. Kirsan, author of North American Sport Horse Breeder ""O'Dell's significant and fine study of an influential breeder of thoroughbreds deserves wide attention. In a very well researched and clearly written narrative, he tells the story of Alexander Keene Richards, of his rise and fall, and of his adventures in places as diverse as Arabia, England, and American Civil War battlefields. I recommend this book to all interested in the Thoroughbred and Standardbred, in Kentucky and the South, and in good biography generally.""--James C. Klotter, author of Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President

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Gary A. O'Dell is professor emeritus of geography at Morehead State University and the author of Bluegrass Paradise: Royal Spring and the Birth of Georgetown, Kentucky.

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