philidelphy

Updated: May 21, 2025

Old Man Robin "Col-onel-Theodoric-Johnston's-Robin-suh" said it was to be the biggest day that was ever seen on that track, and in the memory of the oldest stable-boss old Robin had never admitted that any race of the present could be as great, "within a thousand miles," as the races he used to attend "befo' de wah, when hosses ran all de way from Philidelphy to New Orleans."

Thomas Nelson Page - Bred In The Bone: 1908