Research

Here is a list (with links) to some of the best primary and secondary resources on horse racing history available online:

Daily Racing Form Archives (Keeneland/University of Kentucky)

Full Text Scans: Books

• James Douglas Anderson, Making the American Thoroughbred, Especially in Tennessee, 1800-1845 (1916).
• Kenneth Austin, William McKay et al, Racehorses in Australia (1922).
• August Belmont, Nursery Stud Thoroughbreds: Property of August Belmont (New York, 1902).
• Gerald Breitigam, Morvich: An Autobiography of a Horse (New York, 1922).
• S. D. Bruce, Thoroughbred Horse: His Origin, How to Breed and How Select Him (1892).
• Hamilton Busbey, Recollections of Men and Horses (New York, 1907).
• R.H. Copperthwaite, Turf and the Racehorse: Describing Trainers and Training, the Stud-farm, the sires and Broodmares of the Past and Present, and How to Breed and rear the Racehorse (London, 1865).
• Francis Barnum Culver, Blooded Horses of Colonial Days: Classic Horse Matches in America Before the Revolution (Baltimore, 1922).
• E. King Dodds, Canadian Turf Recollections and Other Sketches (1909).
• Frank Dunton, The Dunton Register (Chicago, 1890).
• John H. Davis, American Turf: History of the thoroughbred, together with personal reminiscences by the author, who, in turn, has been jockey, trainer and owner (New York, 1907).
• Patrick Nisbett Edgar, American Race-Turf Register, Sportsman’s Herald and General Stud Book (New York, 1833).
• Famous American Race Horses (Philadelphia, 1877).
• W.H. Gocher, Fasig's Tales of the Turf : with memoir in which is included a history of the Cleveland driving park, a review of the grand circuit, how the Gentlemen's driving club of Cleveland was started, and a sketch of Fasig's sale business (Hartford, 1903).
• Goodwin Brothers, Goodwin’s Racing Colors of the United States (1888).
• Nat Gould, On and Off the Turf in Australia (1895).
• M. Horace Hayes, Indian Racing Reminiscences (London, 1883).
• John Beaufain Irving, The South Carolina Jockey Club (1857).
• Jockey Club of New York, Spring Meeting 1890 (1890).
• Kinney Brothers, Album of Celebrated American and English Running Horses (New York, 1888).
• Thomas A. Knight, Country Estates of the Blue Grass (Cleveland, 1904).
• Joscelyne Lechmere, Pretty Polly: The History of Her Career on the Turf (London, 1907).
• John William Linnehan and Edward Cogswell, The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston (Boston, 1914).
• Thomas Miller, American Racing Colors (1884).
• John Lawrence O’Connor, History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 (New York, 1921).
• George E. Smith, Racing Maxims and Methods of “Pittsburg Phil” (New York, 1908).
• Leland Stanford and Joseph Simpson, 1887 Catalogue of Trotting and Thoroughbred Stock, Property of Leland Stanford (1887).
• George Tattersall, Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses: containing portraits of all the winners of the Derby, Oaks and St. Leger Stakes, during the last twenty years ; and a history of the principal operations of the turf (London, 1850).
• Charles E. Trevathan, The American Thoroughbred (New York, 1905).
• Walter Vosburgh, “Cherry and Black”: The Career of Mr. Pierre Lorillard on the Turf (1916).
• Walter Vosburgh, Racing in America, 1866-1921 (1922).
• Alfred Watson, Galicia: Her Forbears and Her Offspring (1915).
• Lyman Horace Weeks, The American Turf: An Historical Account of Racing in the United States with biographical sketches of turf celebrities (New York, 1898).
• Westchester Racing Association, Official Souvenir and Stakes Program of the Inaugural Meeting of the Westchester Racing Association under the auspices of the Jockey Club and the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, at Belmont Park, beginning Thursday, May 4th, 1905 (1905),
• William C. Whitney, The Whitney Stud (New York, 1902).
• Frank B. Whipple, Algeria Stud Farm, Property of W.L. Scott, Erie, PA (1889).

Online Photo Collections

• State Library of Victoria (Australia)