Muriel Lennox has spent a lifetime riding, working with, and learning from horses. She was rider-in-residence at E.P.Taylor's Windfields estate for 12 years. As a feature writer for Gallop, Japan's leading Thoroughbred magazine, she wrote a weekly series about the world's greatest Thoroughbreds. An award-winning journalist, she has twice won the Jockey Club of Canada's prestigious Sovereign Award for the outstanding Thoroughbred racing feature of the year
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| Prologue | |
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| Unraveling the Mystery | |
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| The Road to Nearctic | |
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| E.P. Taylor | |
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| Mona Bell | |
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| Windfields | |
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| Epic | |
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| The National Stud Farm | |
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| The Aristocrats - Matriarchs and Patriarchs | |
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| Purchasing Lady Angela | |
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| Lady Angela - Pretty Polly | |
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| Nervous energy | |
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| Origins of the Thoroughbred | |
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| From Old Bald Peg - to Selene | |
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| Hyperion | |
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| Nearco | |
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| End of One Era - Beginning of the New | |
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| Harry Green | |
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| How to get a mare and foal off a boat | |
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| Exit Bert Alexandra | |
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| Enter Nearctic | |
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| Nearctic - yearling | |
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| Enter Pete McCann | |
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| Nearctic and Pete McCann | |
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| Nearctic's Racing Years | |
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| Nearctic's Racing Debut | |
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| Empire Day | |
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| Saratoga decision | |
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| Avelino Gomez | |
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| Saratoga | |
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| Saratoga Special Stakes | |
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| Back to Pete | |
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| E.P. Taylor | |
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| Belmont Futurity - Nashua, Bold Ruler | |
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| Coronation Futurity | |
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| Horatio Luro's Canadian Caper | |
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| Horatio Luro | |
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| Cup and Saucer - Luro takes Nearctic | |
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| Nearctic goes to California - Enter Rae Johnstone | |
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| Nearctic and Johnstone | |
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| Nearctic at three - 1957 | |
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| Back to Pete | |
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| Nearctic at four--Spring 1958 | |
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| Michigan Mile | |
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| Fall 1958 | |
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| Nearctic at five - 1959 | |
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| Nearctic Retired | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The Nearctic Legacy | |
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| Northern Dancer | |
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| Nonoalco | |
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| Icecapade | |
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| Explodent | |
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| Briartic | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
