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

Dead Heat in the Travers Stakes! No, the one in 1874 . . .

My column on KyForward.com this week tells the story of the dead heat in the Travers Stakes. No, not this year's dead heat, the one in 1874!

Unlike the dead heat of 2012, this one was immediately resolved by the parties with a do-over! How would that go over today???

Here's a vintage 1930 Travers Stakes program:

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!

How Lexington Put Lexington On the Map

I wanted to share a link to my latest  column on KyForward.com!

We talk about the origins of the Thoroughbred breeding industry in Kentucky in the 19th Century, and about the great stallion Lexington, who put Lexington (the town) on the map.

Enjoy!

Man O'War: Was he the Greatest Thoroughbred of All?

Most of my Kentucky history columns on KyForward.com concern the Thoroughbred horse industry. This one is about Man O'War, arguably the greatest runner ever.

Enjoy!

Man O'War: The Greatest Thoroughbred Ever?

The Theft of Asteroid and Other Civil War Oddities

As we celebrate, if that's what we're doing, the sesquicentennial of the fighting of the United States Civil War, I have examined the war's impact on my own great great great grandfather, Capt. E. B. Treadway. I also wrote an article that discusses the Civil War's impact on Thoroughbred racing.

Enjoy!

The Civil War's Impact on Kentucky's Thoroughbred Industry