What Keeps America’s Oldest Thoroughbred Going Strong?

Garden and Gun – Steve Russell – What Keeps America’s Oldest Thoroughbred Going Strong?

Phil has a question:

How would you know it’s Derby time if Phil didn’t drag out a couple of old chestnuts.

John Jeremiah Sullivan – Horseman Pass By

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Fast Eddie Felson

2002 Kentucky Derby

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

Larry McMurtry

Times Like These

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

Grantland – Michael MacCambridge – Director’s Cut: ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ by Hunter S. Thompson

Ooh Las Vegas

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. 

Hunter S. Thompson

Louisville Courier-Journal – Jenny Porter Tilley -Read for the Roses with these Kentucky Derby book recommendations from Louisville librarians

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Phil M. Stockmen