Horse Racing category: 231 books
by George Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Horse Talk is a collaboration of over 250 words or phrases dealing with Thoroughbred racing and training terminology, including jockey strategy, the important role of the exercise riders, and a bunch of fun slang terms that can only be explained by the author. A must for all racing enthusiasts or...
Not By a Long Shot
A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
The great myth of horse racing is that the game is the regal and royal Sport of Kings. It isn't. Not by a long shot.
Anyone who doubts this need look no further than Suffolk Downs, a once-proud racecourse graced in its glory years by boisterous throngs and champions such as Seabiscuit. Now...
Wild Ride
The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
An award-winning writer chronicles the tragic story behind the downfall of horse racing's crown jewel.
Founded in 1924 by Chicago mogul William Monroe Wright, Calumet Farm was to the world of thoroughbred racing what the New York Yankees are to baseball -- a sports dynasty. The stable bred...
Waterhouse & Smith
The power of two racing dynasties
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Waterhouse and Smith explores the intriguing histories of Australia’s two great horse racing dynasties the betting plunges, the runs of winners, the battles with authorities, the family rifts and the larger-than-life identities.The Waterhouses rose to incredible power and notoriety in the country’s...
by David Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This vintage book contains David Grey's 1903 novel, "Gallops 2". A sequel to "Gallops", it is an entertaining and witty story of a rural community centred around the traditional English sport of horse racing. A delightful glimpse into nineteenth-century England, "Gallops 2"...
by David Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This vintage book contains David Grey's 1898 novel, "Gallops". It is an entertaining and witty story of a rural community centred around the traditional English sport of horse racing. A delightful glimpse into nineteenth-century England, "Gallops" is highly recommended for lovers...
Stable Views
Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Stable Views offers an inside look at the thoroughbred racing industry through the words and perspectives of those who labor within its stables. In more than fourteen years of field research, Ellen E. McHale has traveled throughout the Eastern Seaboard, Kentucky, and Louisiana to gather oral narratives...
by John H. Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This text comprises a detailed treatise on the Morgan - or Black Hawk - a dynasty of famous American racing horses. Contained herein is a fascinating exploration of one of the most popular and enigmatic families of race horses in American sporting history. It includes information on their known history,...
Crazy Good
The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
A hundred years ago, the most famous athlete in America was a horse. But Dan Patch was more than a sports star; he was a cultural icon in the days before the automobile. Born crippled and unable to stand, he was nearly euthanized. For a while, he pulled the grocer's wagon in his hometown of Oxford,...
Horses for Courses
An Irish Racing Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
There can be no better way of getting to know Ireland than by visiting its racecourses: from the glamour of Leopardstown and the class of The Curragh to the majestic mountains around Killarney; from the warm welcome at Gowran Park and Clonmel to the summer holidaymakers' meetings and 'industry' days...
by Michael E Dimmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Set in the late 1960s, Quest for Gold is an evolving tale of a racing family that realises it owns a potential champion. The handsome black gelding, which bears the family name of 'Bretton', is a treasure, an animal most owners can only dream of.
John Bretton is the 'black sheep' of the family....
Out of the Clouds
The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse...
And They're Off!
My Years as the Voice of Thoroughbred Racing
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Beloved for his thunderous, commanding voice and affable personality, Phil Georgeff, known as "The Voice of Chicago Racing," holds the world record for calling the most horse races—an astounding 96,131. During his fifty years in the sport, Georgeff brushed shoulders with every great jockey...
by Ann Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Sequel to Born to Run and Yearling
Can Alex & Brooke help Morning Glory overcome her racing slump?
When a terrible accident shakes the Showmans, Alex finds herself questioning her place in the family. Feeling like a second class citizen, she turns once again to find her solace in...