Horse Racing category: 231 books
Secretariat
The Red Freak, The Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
"This full arc of life—bigger than imagination in a raging fire—is set on paper by a poet obsessed with beauty, hooves, and the passion of flight....In Lifshin’s language, spare yet metaphorically profound, we enter into that animal grace that only a true poet can convey, as we race on...
An Arm And Four Legs
A Journey into Racehorse Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Ever wondered what it might be like to own a horse, not just back it with a pony on the nose - own it? Stan Hey did. A veteran of the windswept racecourses of National Hunt he finally decided to stop betting on other people's horses and join the inner circle. With the growth of partnerships and syndicates...
by Joel Katte
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
UPDATED AND EXPANDED FOR 2016New in this edition:- 60 additional, brand new questions- improved layout for questions and answer keys makes it easier than ever to quiz family and friends- brand new chapters on Orb, California Chrome and American Pharaoh- improved functionality for e-readers,...
A Breed Apart
The Horses And The Players
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This entertaining behind-the-scenes study takes the dedicated horse-player to California's tracks to meet Jack Kaenel, who booted Aloma's Ruler to victory in the Preakness, and Chuck Jenda, who trained Brown Bess to an Eclipse Award. These and many other professionals are by your side as races are...
by Ruby Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Autobiography of champion jockey and much-loved sports personality Ruby Walsh.
A much-loved sports personality throughout Ireland and Great Britain, Ruby has had a career of outstanding success, which includes having won all four of the home Grand Nationals. This new edition brings his story...
by J. Stanley Reeve
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Originally published in 1908, this vintage book contains a fascinating diary of a nineteenth-century English hunter. Offering a unique and authentic insight into English rural pursuits over a hundred years ago, this is a volume that will appeal to those with an interest in the history of field sports,...
by Patricia L. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Central Kentucky is home to many magnificent horses and their farms. Although there are numerous places to witness these beautiful animals, including Keeneland, Churchill Downs, Pimlico, and Belmont, their history often gets overwhelmed by their statistics. Images of America: Kentucky�s Famous Racehorses...
Barbaro
A Nation's Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This up-to-minute book follows the story of Barbaro, the Triple Crown contender whose unlikely fight back from almost certain death from a shattered leg and ensuing complications captured the hearts of a nation who responded with a stunning display of love.
In 132 years of derby races, only...
The Winning Horseplayer
An Advanced Approach to Thoroughbred Handicapping and Betting
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
In The Winning Horseplayer, Andrew Beyer builds on the strategy of speed handicapping that he detailed brilliantly in Picking Winners by introducing the concept of trip handicapping. Through an unbeatable combination of case studies and lively anecdotes, Beyer shows the smart bettor how to combine...
Native Dancer
The Grey Ghost Hero of a Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
In the early 1950s, a rising star flickered across millions of black-and-white TV sets.
Kentucky Derby Dreams
The Making of Thoroughbred Champions
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Author Susan Nusser takes readers inside the excitement and suspense at one of Kentucky's biggest breeding farms. Every year, two hundred broodmares in the farm's barns give birth to the next generation of racehorses. In the eighteen months following their births, those foals will meet the world's...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
In 1877, Charles Dana's New York Sun reported: "He taught New Yorkers how to eat, how to drink, how to dress, how to drive four-in-hands, how to furnish their houses, how to live generally according to the rules of the possibly somewhat effete, but unquestionably refined, society of the Old World." The...
Dancer's Image
The Forgotten Story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
On May 4, 1968, Dancer's Image crossed the finish line at Churchill Downs to win the 94th Kentucky Derby. Yet the jubilation ended three days later for the owner, the jockey and the trainers who propelled the celebrated thoroughbred to victory. Amid a firestorm of controversy, Dancer's Image was disqualified...
Under the Grandstand
"The Five O’Clock Rainbow” & “Eclipse and His Shoes Blues”
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Those who have lived not just witnessed - the efflorescence of a pivotal culture moment never see the world through veiled eyes again. Jimmy Lyons was there, devising wholly original inventions of words and music while the Beats, the neo-folk troubadours, the post-bop jazz shooting stars, and the...