The Calumet Collection: A History of the Calumet Trophies
By Judy L. Marchman and Tom Hall

Pub Date: April 2002. Calumet Farm is to Thoroughbred racing what the New York Yankees are to baseball -- a revered dynasty. During Calumet’s reign, which lasted five decades, the farm accumulated a collection of racing and sporting trophies that seems certain to never be matched.

The Calumet Collection highlights some of these magnificent trophies and the horses that won them, and discusses the struggle to keep the trophies together and in Kentucky where they are viewed by thousands annually at the Kentucky Horse Park. Among the trophies detailed are the Triple Crown trophies of Citation, who won racing’s ultimate test in 1948; the gold “Man o’ War Cup” created by Tiffany & Co. for the Travers Stakes, won by Whirlaway in 1941; and an odd silver trophy with deer antlers attached, awarded to Bardstown for the 1956 Buckeye Handicap. These trophies connect racing fans with the past glories of the sport and with a true legend -- Calumet Farm.

What the critics are saying:

"It's a pretty book and a good substitute if you cannot get to the International Museum of the Horse to visit all 524 trophies in person."

--Katherine Walcott, Eventing USA

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"Those who have visited Kentucky Horse Park and seen the Calumet collection will sincerely enjoy this little treasure of a book. The Calumet collection was in danger of being sold off in bits and pieces in the early 1980s, and this book outlines the efforts made to keep the trophies together...If you're interested in horse racing's history, I highly recommend this neat little volume."

--Hallie McEvoy, Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar

Softcover
6 x 9
112 pages
Product #B11-1061
List Price: $16.95
ISBN 1-58150-077-7