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01775aam a2200265 a 4500 001 82E2101874C011E6A898C781DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160907010038 008 160517s2016 000 0 eng u 020 $a 1466872721 020 $a 9781466872721 (e-book)\1250065690 (hardcover)\9781250065698 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $d SILO 100 1 $a McGraw, Eliza R. L., 245 10 $a Here comes Exterminator! : $b the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero $c Eliza McGraw. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York $b St. Martin's Press $c 2016. 300 $a x, 324 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 500 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-314) and index. 500 $a Uncle Henry -- "One of those larger-than-life figures" -- All-American thoroughbred -- The 1918 Kentucky Derby -- "One of the greatest three-year-olds of the season" -- Remarkable gameness -- "The color of the 1920s" -- Iron horse -- Paper record -- "I could stand against the world" -- "A finer, truer horse never lived." 520 $a A story from the golden age of racing, with all its ups and downs, the ever-involving interplay of hourses and people, and the beauty, grace, fear, and hope that are a daily part of life at the track. The staggering success of Exterminator would dramatically change the the world of horse racing. he challenged the notion that American hourses would never live u to Europe's meticulously charted bloodlines and became a patriotic icon of the country after WWI. 650 $a Exterminator (Race horse) 650 $a Race horses $x Biography. $x Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l LPPC815 $d 20160907012501.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=82E2101874C011E6A898C781DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search