{"id":579,"date":"2008-06-10T19:04:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T00:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2008-06-10T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T00:16:17","slug":"rare-collection-of-racing-books-to-be-auctioned-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Rare collection of racing books to be auctioned in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2008\/Clifton%20Stud.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>An historic collection of thoroughbred racing books from the library of Sir Roderick William Cameron, a founder of the American Jockey Club, will be auctioned (including bids online) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\/\">Christies <\/a>on June 12, at Rockefeller Center in New York. Lot 133 is one of 230 lots of rare books and manuscripts being offered that day, including a limited issue, first edition of James Joyce&#8217;s <em>Ulysses<\/em>, estimated to bring $400,000 to $600,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Cameron offering, at an estimated value of $3,000 to $5,000, includes 12 volumes of <em>The General Stud Book<\/em> (London), 1832-1873, including seven that are first editions, as well as turf guides, and sale and stud catalogues with annotations and pedigrees personally recorded by Cameron, a central figure in the revival of horse racing in New York, following the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>In 1865, Cameron imported from England what is arguably the single most influential group of horses in the history of the American turf, including the stallion Leamington (1853-1878), which Cameron stood at his Clifton Stud on Staten Island. Among Leamington&#8217;s offspring were Aristides, the first winner of the Kentucky Derby, and Iroquois, the first American-bred horse to win the Epsom Derby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An historic collection of thoroughbred racing books from the library of Sir Roderick William Cameron,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-movies","category-horse-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}