Horse Racing category: 231 books

Released for the 2004 Melbourne Cup, this guide provides astute observations and hilarious insights for both racing amateurs and seasoned racing and betting pros. Celebrating "the sport of kings," this insider's view explores the personalities, scandals, oddities, joys of ownership, social...

   Some have referred to her as the female version of Secretariat; some called her "super mare," queen of racing, the finest mare in the history of thoroughbred racing. Some simply called her "Queen Z."    Her name is Zenyatta - who, from 2007 to 2011, turned the sport...

Known as the �Winter Capital of Harness Racing,� Pompano Park has provided the only nighttime standardbred harness competition in Florida since its 1964 inaugural season. Prominent Kentucky horseman Frederick Van Lennep and his wife, Frances Dodge Van Lennep, built a $5.5-million track on the property...

Since opening on July 10, 1935, Suffolk Downs has played host to some of Thoroughbred racing�s greatest champions, including Triple Crown winners War Admiral, Whirlaway, and Assault, as well as other greats such as Seabiscuit, John Henry, and Cigar. In addition to these legendary horses, hall of fame...

It is said the land level of Ireland rises a few feet every March because so many people have left for the National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham. English-Irish rivalry at this pinnacle of jump racing has always been keen but it has risen to new levels in the 21st Century, with many Irish winners...

This is the amazing story of my great grandfather Albert Edmund Cockram who was, in his time, the largest importer of Thoroughbred Racehorses into Australia from Europe and New Zealand.  The best blood lines that money could buy were purchased. In one year alone he bought in 150 horses from overseas...

Richard Ulbrich, is the author of three acclaimed publications of the thoroughbred, “See How They Ran” in 1981, “The Great Stallion Book” in 1984, and the ultimate companion volume “Richard Ulbrich's Peerage of Racehorses” in 1994. As he undertook his research he collected a large number...

This fun and witty exposé of horse racing in America goes behind the scenes at the track, providing a serious gambler's-eye-view of the action. Ted McClelland spent a year at tracks and off-track betting facilities in Chicago and across the country, profiling the people who make a career of gambling...

Twenty-five years after his racetrack classic Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich tells the story of how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck. Barich travels throughout his adopted country and meets the leading trainers...

What makes a champion?  Bestselling author, and confidant to E P Taylor, owner/breeder of the mighty Northern Dancer, Muriel Lennox, argues the importance of ancestry.  To discover these influential ancestors, Lennox follow Canada's Rivers of Gold, a series of powerful genetic streams back...

The sudden death of Gordon W. Richards in late September 1998 brought a premature end to a legendary training career which had seen him rise from obscurity to national fame as master of his profession. Consigned to racing's scrap-heap with a broken back at the age of 29, he scraped a living...

A new year has come to North Oak, and with it a new life for Alexandra Anderson. Still haunted by Ashley’s brutal death, Alex worries she won’t seem grateful if she’s unhappy. To make it worse, Promenade has been nominated to the Keeneland Yearling Sale. She’s going to lose everything… again. It’s...

THE ONE IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW ABOUT GAMBLING is that there is no guaranteed way to win all the time. But there is a guaranteed way to lose constantly, and that is when you don’t understand the basic rules of playing and betting. It is appalling how many people, even big-money gamblers, lose consistently...

This mini book is the first in my "Metaphysics Put To The Test" series. Over the years I have read, dabbled in various subjects that could be grouped under the umbrella of Metaphysics. Among these subjects are Numerology, Astrology, Biorhythm Theory,Psychic Science. The problem :Much of the subject...