From Selima to Skinner: Horse Racing in Early Maryland & America, 1740-1840

Learn about Maryland’s early days of racing, from the the arrival of the country’s first Thoroughbred to the pre-Civil War era.
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Racing historian donald Walsh will cover Maryland’s early days of  racing, from the time before the arrival of the country’s first  Thoroughbred to the pre-Civil war era. Learn about Selima,  Post Boy, and the Great Match Race of 1823 and gain a better  understanding of the origins of the Thoroughbred breed and  how the format of flat racing has changed over the course of  two and a half centuries in America.