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“Tanya has proved herself worthy of her ancestry”: The 1904 Spinaway and Hopeful

Once upon a time, there was a horse called Spinaway. She was a chestnut, and she was born in 1878.  Pedigree Query says that she raced nine times and won seven races, and that her career ended when she was three, in 1881. That year, someone in Saratoga named after a stakes race for her.…

August 31, 2012 in Brooklyn Backstretch.

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