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12-12-2011, 09:58 AM
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I didn't get a chance to watch it but will.
However -- I don't understand why anyone would do a drama on horse racing in this era instead of the era between Plunger Walton and Pittsburg Phil. Horse racing has been mercilessly strangled by extreme government regulation. The late 1880's and 1890's was the wild west for horse racing ... and wasn't Deadwood from around that time? Plunger Walton was one part Tony Soprano and one part Sam "Ace" Rothsetin and though as schemeing and devious as they come... his life story was as amazing as it gets. He was a tabloid sensation in both the United States and England. This was how his obituary in the New York Times ended...  
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