Horse Racing category: 231 books
Aspen Valley Series 1-3 Boxset
Aspen Valley Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
KEEPING THE PEACE(ASPEN VALLEY SERIES, BOOK 1)London waitress Pippa Taylor has no interest in horses or country-living. But when she inherits Peace Offering, a hopeless racehorse, she embarks on a career change in order to see her late uncle’s wish to run him in the Grand National come...
Sixty Years of Jump Racing
From Arkle to McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Robin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses. With elegant production and gripping images The History of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport's ups and downs-like the development of sponsorships and syndicate...
Beyond Greatness
Four Thoroughbred Legends
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
The juvenile, or two-year-old, racing careers of Colin, Man o War, Ruffian and Landaluce provide the foundation and focus for discussing the question of thoroughbred greatness and its measure. These four thoroughbreds were arguably the best juvenile runners of the twentieth century. Close on their...
Ruffian
Burning From the Start
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"A colorful story...Ruffian was nothing if not a heartbreaker. Her story, dramatically recounted by Jane Scwartz, epitomizes both the adrenaline-pumping glory and gut-wrenching ruthlessness inherent in the sport of horse racing."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Here is the story f the exceptional...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Robert "Big Bob" McCullough was a hit man for Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. Later he served as a policeman for several prominent race organizations. Specifically, these were the Miami Beach Kennel Club and the Sportsman's Park racetrack in Chicago. McCullough came under scrutiny following...
Getting Down
An Unveiling of the Horse Racing Industry: Its Insiders, Workers, Patrons, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Getting Down is not a typical racetrack story. Seabiscuit, Swaps, Man o War, John Henry, Secretariat, and Zenyatta may well be mentioned, but this story is about the people of racing, not the horses. Its about racetrack workers, on both the back and front sides of the track. Its about racetrack owners...
by Jason Beem
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
"There’s a line that runs alongside our ordinary lives, just beyond the grind of things. Jason Beem’s novel Southbound derails your ordinary life and shoots you into the thrill, rush, and dark brutal truths of gambling and racing. And he doesn’t flinch. A glorious and visceral book. I sweat...
Eclipse
The Horse That Changed Racing History Forever
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him. An adventurer and rogue who has made his money through gambling, Dennis O'Kelly is also a known companion to the madam of a notorious London brothel. Under O'Kelly's management, Eclipse would go on a winning streak unparalleled for the next two centuries....
The Kentucky Derby
How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting Event
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Each year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "greatest two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby. No American sporting event can claim the history, tradition, or pageantry that the Kentucky...
by Andrew Rule
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Winx joins Phar Lap and Bradman in the history books: a national sporting idol and the world's best racehorse.
4 COX PLATE VICTORIES
The only horse in history
29 CONSECUTIVE WINS
Australian record holder
22 GROUP 1 WINS
World record holder
'A deft writer with a sense of humour. It's...
by Jessica Owers
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
A wonderful, forgotten racing story set in The Great Depression
In 1932, they said there would never be another Phar Lap. Yet within months there came a racehorse so wildly brilliant that he was instantly compared to the dead champion. He was Peter Pan.
Within months of Phar Lap's death,...
The Fixer
and His Exploits Among the Dangerous Gangsters, Degenerate Gamblers, Crooked Politicians, and Corrupt Billionaires of the Horse Racing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
A collection of true stories of a jockey and his exploits among the dangerous gangsters, degenerate gamblers, crooked politicians, and corrupt billionaires of the horse racing world from the 1960s through the 1990s.
by Claire Ashgrove
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
McCleery Racing didn't become a Thoroughbred racing powerhouse by betting on longshots. Maddie McCleery made it a multi-million dollar player through hard work, logical decisions, and a commitment to never involve herself with men who lived on the sport of kings. But when she sets her sights on a...
The Best Australian Racing Stories
From Archer to Makybe Diva
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Did you know that Jorrocks raced till the grand old age of 19? Or that Melbourne Cup - winner Grand Flaneur never lost a race? Or that Sunline was the top stakes-winning mare in the world in her day?
The Best Australian Racing Stories is chock-a-block with the victories and tragedies of these...