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Originally Posted by Riot
There were lots of anti-gambling measures around, but in 1909 a strict anti-gambling measure passed in NY (the heart of horse racing) that stopped racing in 1910. Blooded stock was worthless here. They all were sold off to Europe. Didn't restart racing here until 1913. There weren't even any big organized horse sales here between 1910 and 1915 or so.
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This would probably explain why Man O' War's foal crop was as small as it was.
MOW was born in 1917 -- at a time when purses had been depressed very badly in the US for more than ten years... they were just starting to turn around in '17 and '18.
11-30-2011, 07:49 PM
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