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Title: The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing Politics and
Organized Crime in New York 1865-1913
Author: Steven Riess
Category: Audiobook
Narrated By: Emil N Gallina
Duration: 17:19:58
Type: MP3
Size: 476.9 MB
Bitrate: 64 Kb/s
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Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing
thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and
new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and,
most of all, the gambling.
As the sport became a national industry, the New York metropolitan area, along with
the resort towns of Saratoga Springs (New York) and Long Branch (New Jersey), remained
at the center of horse racing with the most outstanding race courses, the largest
purses, and the finest thoroughbreds.
The sport's survival depended upon the racetrack being the nexus between politicians
and organized crime. The powerful alliance between urban machine politics and track
owners enabled racing in New York to flourish. Racetracks became a key connection
between the underworld and Tammany Hall, enabling illegal poolrooms and off-course
bookies to operate. Organized crime worked in close cooperation with machine
politicians and local police officers to protect these illegal operations. In The
Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports
history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing's
heyday.
"This impressive work deserves the attention of scholars even if they care little
about sports per se." (The Journal of American History)
"This work will stand as a source-of-record for historians for years to come."
(Saratoga Living)
"Riess has broken new ground with his richly-textured study of the dynamic
relationship between horse racing, politics, and gambling as they built New York's
thoroughbred industry a century ago." (Field Horne, author of The Saratoga Reader)
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