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How America's first drugs czar turned spotlight on widespread doping issues in racing | Topics: HISA

Article by Milton C. Toby: In an extract from his new book, Unnatural Ability – the History of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Thoroughbred Racing, award-winning author Milt Toby reveals how Harry J. Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, targeted the sport in the 1930s
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'He did just what I expected' – how the 'Fox of Belair' won the Kentucky Derby en route to the Triple Crown | Topics: Churchill Downs, Triple Crown, Gallant Fox, Belair Stud, 'Sunny Jim' Fitzsimmons, Kentucky Derby

Article by Jennifer S. Kelly: In this extract from her new book, The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha and the Quest for the Triple Crown, Jennifer S Kelly takes us back to Churchill Downs and a historic afternoon beneath the Twin Spires in 1930
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The first Kentucky Derby – 13 Black jockeys, one shady owner, and the little red horse that wasn't supposed to win | Topics: Churchill Downs, Kentucky Derby, Aristides

Article by Mark Shrager: Read this extract from Mark Shrager’s illuminating new book examining the events leading up to Aristides’s victory in 1875 in the first ‘Run for the Roses’.
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