Honors
The match race was immortalized in the bluegrass music song: Molly and Tenbrooks. The song has a number of other names, among them Run, Molly, Run, and it came about because Mollie had raced against the Eastern champion Ten Broeck in an 1878 match race.
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Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)