Horse Racing category: 231 books
Racing Rorts
Rorts, Scams & Characters from the Australasian turf
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Never before told tales such as that of Australias greatest ever racecourse plunge TORBEK, the actual facts of how it was set-up and unolded, true tales of ring-ins that unlike FINE COTTON were actually sucessful ! Corrupt officials, shifty trainers, dubious jockeys and their exploits all revealed....
by Christianna McCausland
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Each spring, thousands of spectators clamber onto hillsides with picnics and binoculars to watch steeplechase racing, a fast-paced equine sport born out of the fundamentals of fox hunting. Since 1894, when the first Maryland Hunt Cup was run, the month of April has been synonymous with steeplechase racing....
Under Orders
The Diary of a Racehorse Owner’s Husband
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
When John Timpson, chairman of the eponymous high street chain, bought his wife Alex a racehorse in 2002, a friend commented that it would be ‘a marvellous way to lose money’.
Soon they were immersed in a world of trainers’ yards, Novice Hurdles and handicaps, and well on the way to proving...
The Ride of My Life
Memoirs of a Sporting Editor
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Michael Clayton has enjoyed a fascinating career as a professional journalist on Fleet Street – but the highlight of his career was his work as a editor and journalist in the field of horses, and with hunting horses in particular. This is his autobiography in horses: his boyhood work in local stables,...
Foinavon
The Story of the Grand National’s Biggest Upset
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase.
The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck,...
The Great Match Race
When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys...
Coolmore Stud:
Ireland's Greatest Sporting Success Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Nestled in a quiet part of County Tipperary, Coolmore Stud casts as long a shadow as any sporting entity over the history of Irish sport. Founded by the legendary horse trainer Vincent O’Brien, and now managed by John Magnier, Coolmore Stud has grown from a small breeding farm into a global behemoth,...
by Patrick Robinson, Nick Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
During the boom years of the 1980s, the massed oil wealth of the princes of Dubai and Saudi Arabia were pitted against British millionaire Robert Sangster in a battle for control of one of the world’s rarest, most precious and most unpredictable commodities: top-pedigree thoroughbread racehorses....
Best There Ever Was
Dan Patch and the Dawn of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
His winning percentage was well above Jordan’s shooting average or Woods’s domination of golf tournaments. And he sold products and drew spectators like no one had ever done. He was hands-down the most famous athlete in America’s most popular spectator sport, and exactly one hundred years ago...
by Anne Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Do you know what the oldest horse race in Britain is, or when the first steeple case was held in Ireland? Fact-packed but light-hearted in style, this reliable reference book and quirky guide reveals such little-known facts, along with details of classic races, statistical records, famous riders,...
Celebrating Old Friends
Stories from Kentucky’s Thoroughbred Retirement Farm
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
When Michael Blowen first dreamed of creating Old Friends, he envisioned a place where Thoroughbred stallions could retire with dignity following their racing or breeding careers. He also wanted people to visit the iconic horses. In 2003, Old Friends opened on leased land with a miniature horse named...
Bred To Run
The Making Of A Thoroughbred
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Bred to Run: The Making of a Thoroughbred is a book by Mike Helm, providing insights about horse breeding and the horse-racing industry gathered from Helm's time spent at Claiborne Farm.
by Janet Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
HORSES: 101 SUPER FUN FACTS AND AMAZING PICTURES ( FEATURING THE WORLD's TOP 18 HORSE BREEDS) This book depicts the wonder of the world of Horses. Children are given a well-rounded understanding of this magnificent mammal: its anatomy, social habits, behavior and relationship with man. The following...
by Tony Hogben
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
I am writing this book, because I am a firm believer in the good old Aussie notion of a fair go for everyone, which is contrary to the grossly objectionable and un-Australian way we and our horses were treated almost all of the time. Like millions of Australian racing fans, I so clearly remember my most...