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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An Irish horse trainer and his niece come to Kentucky after her brother's death in a riding accident. While the trainer takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit and tries to convince the owner that the ungainly little horse can become a champion, his niece begins a romance with a jockey but is haunted by memories of her brother's accident.
Author
Series
Publisher
For Dummies, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A guide to horse racing that provides information and tips on making smart bets, assessing jockeys, trainers, and horses, understanding race track programs, avoiding common mistakes, and managing funds.
Betting on Horse Racing For Dummies is packed with information that teaches you the ins and outs of the racetrack. You’ll learn how to improve your odds, avoid common betting mistakes, and just plain have fun at the races. This is a spectator’s...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Kelsey Byden grew up believing her mother had died when she was three. Now at twenty-six and freshly divorced, she receives a letter from her mother explaining that she is alive and living on a Virginia horse farm. Deeply strung by lies told to protect her, Kelsey takes her anger out at her college professor father by going to visit her mother, who Kelsey learns spent over ten years in prison for murder.
10) Blood sport
Author
Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"Reluctantly agreeing to locate a missing priceless breeding stallion for his employer, Gene Hawkins suddenly finds himself the target of millionaire Dave Teller's socialite wife, as he falls in love with his own boss's daughter and becomes the prey of a vicious gang of horse thieves"--NoveList.
12) Iced
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
13) To the hilt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Al Kinloch, a young painter who lives in seclusion on a Scottish mountain is called to London to save his family from financial ruin. It happens after the director of the family brewery embezzles the funds. Far from being a babe in the woods, the painter does an excellent job.
14) Comeback
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Foreign Office British diplomat, Peter Darwin uses all of his skills to solve a veterinary surgeon's race-horse nightmare.
15) Dead cert
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
As jockey Alan York looked at the back of Bill Davidson astride the great horse Admiral, one thing was different. Before his rival reached the last hurdle, he was dead. Alan knew racing was dangerous; he also knew Bill's death was no accident. It was the kind of knowledge that could get a man killled...."The best thriller writer going."THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY
16) Pulse
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. But who is he? Where does he come from? He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body. Doctor Chris Rankin, a specialist who treated the deceased--and who struggles with mental health issues--is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed even, and starts asking questions. However, someone doesn't...
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Hellsmouth, a willful thoroughbred filly with the blood of Triple Crown winners flowing through her veins, has the legacy of the Forges riding on her. One of the oldest and proudest families in Kentucky, the Forge family is as mythic as the history of the South itself. Descended from one of the first settlers to brave the Gap, Henry Forge, through an act of naked ambition, is attempting to blaze a new path, breeding horses on the family's crop farm....
18) Black Gold
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
c1957
Language
English
Description
A true story of a great horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 1924, and years later finished a race with a broken leg.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A cross between Revolutionary Road and Battleborn (with a little bit of Brokeback Mountain). . . . A rich and rugged suburban western about dreams deferred and living defiantly." --O, the Oprah Magazine. "This book knocked me flat on my back." --Justin Torres, author of We the Animals. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by Parade, O Magazine, Nylon, Bustle, BookRiot, and more. A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and...
20) Break in
Author
Series
Kit Fielding novels volume 1
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
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