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21) 10 lb. penalty
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Easy-going young Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeple-chases as an amateur jockey. His father requests he does not jeopardize his political career, but enemies within politics can infiltrate even a horse race.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 16
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Black is the fastest horse in America, and Alex Ramsay is preparing him for a big race. Suddenly there comes a new challenger: the island stallion, Flame! An unproven racer, Flame can run like the wind. Black and Flame come face to face on the racetrack.
Author
Series
Raleigh Harmon novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sent undercover to a thoroughbred horse track, geologist Raleigh Harmon investigates a string of mysterious horse deaths, but when her own life is threatened, only her connection to the FBI, Jack Stephanson, can help her.
Author
Series
Hearts on the heath volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bianca Snowley looks after the horses at the neighboring estate. When she meets the new owner, she can't help but be intrigued-but romance is unfeasible when he proposes they help secure spouses for each other. Will they see everything they've wanted has been there all along?"--
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Series
Heroes of Heartbreak Creek volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When he is hired by a Scotsman in Heartbreak Creek to purchase thoroughbreds, Rayford Jessup, who has a way with damaged horses, travels to England where his life is forever changed by a traumatized horse and a beautiful Englishwoman.
Author
Series
Hellions of Halstead Hall volume 4
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Lord Gabriel Sharpe is guilt-ridden by his friend's death to the point that he recklessly accepts a challenge to compete in the same race that ended his friend's life, but develops unexpected feelings for his friend's sister.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.
30) To win her favor
Author
Series
Belle Meade Plantation novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. But the one man who could help her has vowed to stay away from thoroughbred racing forever" --Amazon.com.
31) True betrayals
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While living at a Virginia horse farm with the mother she had never known, Kelsey Byden becomes involved with a high-stakes gambler who raises troubling questions about her mother's past.
Author
Series
Hearts on the heath volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When his reputation is threatened, Aaron Whitworth makes the desperate decision to hire a circus horse trainer as a jockey for his racehorses. Most men don't take Sophia Fitzroy seriously because she's a woman, but as she fights for the right to do the work she was hired for, she finds the fight for Aaron's guarded heart might be a more worthwhile challenge"--
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeff Hinkley is an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority. He secretly follows a banned racehorse trainer through the crowds at the Cheltenham Racing Festival only to witness a bloody murder taking place right in front of his eyes. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned in the first place -- the administration of illegal drugs to his horses? Then many more horses test positive for prohibited stimulants...
Author
Series
Whinnies on the wind volume 7
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On the same day that Evy learns another of her mom's secrets, she also discovers that they are almost out of money! And her mom has stopped painting, so there will be no more money coming in. How will they live? Wanting to help, Evy enters a dangerous local race, hoping to win the prize money.
35) Crisis
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim? Harry knows very little...
37) Hands down
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 11
Language
English
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Description
"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
38) Triple crown
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country. Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization--an informant who is passing on confidential...
39) Iced
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
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...
40) On swift horses
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar...
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