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Author
Series
Animal ark volume 40
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Mandy is thrilled when her dad wins first prize in the Christmas raffle--he is going to own a racehorse for a day.
4) Secretariat
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history won the Triple Crown. He still holds the record for the fastest times in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. The tale of "Big Red" is an enduring classic, more than thirty years after its initial publication"--Back cover.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 18
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the disappearance of a valuable racehorse that Dink's uncle and his friend, Forest Evans, have just bought and entered in a race at Saratoga.
Author
Series
Senior sleuths volume 3
Language
English
Description
While in Kentucky to sell her thoroughbred broodmare's offspring at a high-stakes yearling sale, rival sisters-in-law Peg and Rose discover something seems off about Six Oaks farm, and when the yearling manager with serious anger issues is murdered, the ladies enter the ring to expose the culprit.
Author
Series
Kentucky series (Fern Michaels) volume 3
Language
English
Description
When it comes to men, Nealy is very content with her new husband, lawyer Hatch Littletree. When it comes to her horses, she is never satisfied. Nobody can measure up to her standards as a trainer, not even her daughter Emmie, who now runs the family's famous stables, Blue Diamond Farms. Now with the ghosts of the past haunting them both, Emmie and Nealy engage in an unstoppable rivalry, two headstrong women engaged in a battle of wills, each determined...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When America needed him most, Seabiscuit became the working man's hero and the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorse in history. This documentary includes real footage of Red Pollard's thrilling victory at the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap, the complete Seabiscuit/War Admiral "Match Race", and an exclusive interview with author Laura Hillenbrand.
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Language
English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris Paras is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance...
13) Secretariat
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Behind every legend lies an impossible dream. Witness the spectacular journey of an incredible horse named Secretariat and the moving story of his unlikely owner, a housewife who risked everything to make him a champion.
14) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
15) Crossfire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather....
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but today Ben's daughter, Cale, is at the track. Ben impulsively buys the horse, which causes him to lose his job. The rehabilitation process of the horse is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a modern economy, but the horse turns out to be a much-needed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous, Civil War-era South, despite going nearly blind, and became the most successful sire in American racing history. The early days of American horse-racing were grueling. Four-mile heats-races four miles long, run two or three times in succession!-were the norm, rewarding horses who possessed the ideal combination of stamina and speed, attributes...
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Flavia and her friends go to Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at Senator Cornix's town house, where they befriend the young charioteer, Scopas, and quickly find themselves embroiled in a campaign to sabotage one of the rival racing factions.
19) Dream of Night
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of individuals and horses for a year leading up to the 2009 Kentucky Derby, and captures the beauty of the breed, the thrilling nature of the sport, and the deep reservoir of history and tradition behind this equine wonder. Viewers go from Kentucky to Dubai to trace the breed's fascinating history and meet the people who breed them, sell them, race them, and love them. From foaling barn to finish line this unique animal imbues the...
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