My eBook "Chasing the Triple Crown"

Here's a link to my article length eBook, Chasing the Triple Crown, which is available on Amazon.com!

I hate to engage in shameless commerce, but check it out!

My Editor and Publisher, Judy Clabes, says:


Bob Treadway is a storyteller -- and an engaging, entertaining one. He'll draw you in and keep you there right to the end. Whether you love horses, as I do, or you just plain love a good story well told, Bob delivers. His love of history, Kentucky, horses and turn of phrase . . .well, it's just part of the package. Enjoy!

-- Judith Clabes, Editor and Publisher, KyForward.com,
and member, Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame

The Last Colonel

Here's a link to today's column on KyForward.com, in which I give the curious story of Col. Phil T. Chinn, the last of the Kentucky colonels of racing!

Enjoy!

Was 1892 the Kentucky Derby's Lowest Point?

What was the lowest point of the Kentucky Derby? The year 1892 gets my vote: It had only three entries, two of which were owned by the same owner and the winning jockey was only fifteen years old!

Here's a view of what Churchill Downs looked like a few years later, in 1901:

Here's a link to my column on it in KyForward.com!