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Horse Racing Starts in Southern Oregon Mining Camps

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Horse racing in Southern Oregon has been a sport ever since young miners with some gold dust bought good horses and challenged others to a race. In 1854, two such men, William Ish and Michael Hanley, advertised they would race their horses, with $2,000 go

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Alice Mullaly