Horse Racing category: 231 books
Kings of the Saddle
Ireland's Greatest Jockeys
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The recent retirement of Mick Kinane, doyen of flat racing jockeys whose swansong was his 2009 Classic victories on the great Sea the Stars, reminded us once again how many of the greatest jockeys in racing, over jumps as well as on the flat, hail from Ireland.
Brian O’ Connor is the experienced...
by Gerald Cohail
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Generations of racing fans learned to handicap horse races with one goal in mind: consistently picking winners. Because of their conditioning most people who bet on horse races use the same past performance records as everyone else. Is it any wonder then that most people have zeroed-in on the same...
Seabiscuit
An American Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest...
by Robin Oakley
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Kauto Star, Nijinsky, Arkle, Desert Orchid, Frankel, Red Rum … how do you rank the best British and Irish horses from both Flat racing and jumping? How do you compare a fleet-footed sprinter with the robust staying power of a steeplechaser? Robin Oakley’s highly personal list will provoke debate...
My Year of the Racehorse
Falling in Love With the Sport of Kings
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
"Because ultimately, this is a story about unconditional love, about warming to the notion of commitment, about setting off on a voyage away from the shores of self-involvement and self-obsession. My Year of the Racehorse is a poignant, unsentimental, zappingly written and regularly side-splitting...
The Greatest Horse of All
A Controversy Examined
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Using the most basic statistics, completely explained, the author selects the sixteen most likely candidates for the title: "greatest horse of the twentieth century."
Fifty colts and fillies, listed mainly ina 1999 publication by The Blood-Horse, Inc., were compared using a three-part...
by Duncan Stearn
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
This is a short book designed to dispel some of the lingering myths surrounding professional gambling. The author has been involved in the racing industry since the early 1970s and made his living from racing for a number of years in the early 1990s. The advent of internet gambling has not changed...
by A.P. McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
The fully updated autobiography of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy, Grand National and BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR winner and unquestionably the greatest jump jockey ever.
Tony 'A.P.' McCoy is without doubt the greatest and most successful jump jockey of all time. He has collected a record 16 consecutive...
Belair Stud
The Cradle of Maryland Horse Racing
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
From their opening in 1740 through the 1955 closing, Belair Stud Farm became known as one of the most important stables in American racing. Although the high-profile murder of the farms final owner, Billy Woodward, eventually forced the farm to close, it did produce an extraordinary number of winning...
Saving Baby
How One Woman's Love for a Racehorse Led to Her Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
"If we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." --Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty
Jo Anne Normile was not supposed to keep the foal, an exuberant Thoroughbred with only a few white hairs on his reddish-brown...
Citation
In a Class by Himself
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
When Citation (1945-1970) retired in mid-1951, he was horseracing's first and, to that point, only millionaire racehorse. Following his 1948 triumphs at the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont in 1948, it would be twenty-five years before another horse (Secreteriat) would again wear the coveted...
Moods
The Peter Moody Saga
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The remarkable story of a champion Aussie horseman
In March 2016 Peter Moody, the man who took his ‘good mare’ Black Caviar to an unprecedented 25 straight victories, walked away from racing. Suspended for six months after he was found to have presented a horse on race day with an illegal...
Arkle
The Legend of 'Himself'
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In 1964, Arkle's first-place finish in the Cheltenham Gold Cup was the first big win by Ireland's most celebrated racehorse: the horse by which all others are measured. Fifty years on from the start of his incredible career - which included wins in the Cheltenham Gold Cup (three times), Irish...
150 Years of Racing in Saratoga
Little Known Stories & Facts From America's Most Historic Racing City
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Since the inaugural meeting was held in August 1863, Saratoga Springs has been the scene of memorable races, often featuring legends of the sport. Although some of the epic moments are still familiar today, such as Upset's defeat of Man o' War in the 1919 Sanford Memorial, many of the triumphs and defeats...