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Kentucky series (Fern Michaels) volume 3
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In this edge-of-the-seat finale to the trilogy that has reunited the Coleman and Thornton families, New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels sets our pulses pounding as horsewoman Nealy Coleman faces her greatest challenge--to produce another Derby winner and show the world that a determined woman never quits...
Kentucky Sunrise
When it comes to men, Nealy is very content with her new husband, lawyer Hatch Littletree. When it comes to horses,...
3) Willow King
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Thirteen-year-old Katie, who is herself physically challenged, saves a crippled foal from euthanasia and nurses him back to health and eventual championships.
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With her nearly broke and practically homeless mother about to land on her doorstep, Robyn Guthrie learns that desperation can play havoc with a daughter's scruples. Otherwise, why would she even consider kidnapping a goat and holding it for ransom?
Criminal acts don't come naturally to Robyn, but she has an ally in her accountant Mick Hughes, a former jockey with a bum leg and dubious past. Figuring that it's best to take from those who've taken...
5) Derby Day
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As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs - high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves. Whole families stream along the Surrey back-roads, towards the greatest race of the year. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air - this is Derby Day.
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Author Susan Nusser takes readers inside the excitement and suspense at one of Kentucky's biggest breeding farms. Every year, two hundred broodmares in the farm's barns give birth to the next generation of racehorses. In the eighteen months following their births, those foals will meet the world's most skilled and knowledgeable horsemen - from grooms to veterinary orthopedists - who will shape them in to the kinds of yearlings that attract the attention...
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A Harvard dropout's memoir of playing the horses-a great read for handicappers or those who enjoyed Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House. In 1977, before he was known as the creator of "The Beyer Speed Figure," Andrew Beyer set out on a gambling odyssey, determined to prove himself as a horseplayer. He would marshal all his handicapping skills for assaults on four racetracks: Gulfstream Park, Pimlico, Saratoga, and the Barrington Fair. The then thirty-three-year-old...
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The Cheltenham Festival is nowadays the biggest event in the racing year – in visitor numbers eclipsing Royal Ascot, the Grand National or the Derby. In 2011 it is a hundred years since the 1911 running of the National Hunt Chase marked the birth of the Festival, providing the perfect occasion for Robin Oakley' s new history. This is a work of both history and celebration – telling the story of how three days of jump racing beneath Cleeve Hill...
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This fun and witty expos 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 on horses. This account follows his personal journey of what it means to be a player as he gambles with his book advance using various betting and handicapping...
10) Horse Trader
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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 thoroughbred racehorses. From the Jockey Club to Kentucky, from Royal Ascot to Belmont Park, high society and new money celebrated a horse breeders' bonanza as hundreds of millions...
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The moving story of a tough little horse, a gifted boy, and a woman ahead of her time.
The youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an unconventional heiress, who disliked publicizing herself. Together, near Liverpool, England, they made a leap of faith on a spring day in 1938: overriding the jockey's father, trusting the boy and the horse that the British nicknamed the "American pony" to handle a racecourse that newspapers called "Suicide Lane."...
12) Bogey's Spook
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Bogey's Spook is the third book in a trilogy starring the trainer Bogey Dawson and his wife Becky. In this book, they encounter a powerful white colt they call Spook and find their destinies intertwined with a young jockey named Hank. Together they face a range of obstacles, finally a do or die showdown. Bogey Dawson and his wife Becky take in an orphaned teenager with high ambitions. The boy longs to be a jockey and believes he could excel. As he...
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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 enjoyable moments in this industry. These memoirs are of an average smalltime thoroughbred breeder/owner who has bred and raced thoroughbreds up and...
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Las ayudas del jinete son la base fundamental para aprender a montar. Sin ellas, no existe entendimiento ni comunicación con el caballo. Dichas ayudas deben aplicarse claramente y sin equívocos, aunque siempre con suavidad. Entre las ayudas pueden distinguirse, básicamente, dos tipos: las naturales y las artificiales. Entre las primeras se encuentran las piernas, las manos, la voz, la posición del cuerpo... Y entre las segundas están los estribos,...
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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 you would have been hard pressed to find anybody in the country who didn't know his name. He was Dan Patch, and he was a racehorse.
At the turn of the last...
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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 racing correspondent of the Irish Times, and his survey of the twelve finest jockeys currently riding in Ireland (six on the flat, six National Hunt) was acclaimed...
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A pointed and irreverent critique of thoroughbred racing's breakdown, by a prominent journalist turned horse breeder
Jim Squires was in trouble. He had gone from one business seemingly intent on committing suicide to another, both led over the cliff by visionless leaders. First it was the newspaper bean-counters' blind adherence to the demands of Wall Street. Then in horse racing, it was a clannish group called "the Dinnies" refusing to share power...
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If you want to make serious money betting the races, you know that handicapping is only half the battle. The other half is knowing how to bet.
Money Secrets At The Racetrack is the only book written by a professional player that covers every aspect of money management. It's the only one that gives you exact methods on how to make the most money at the track.
There's nothing in here about handicapping. You pick the horses—-then this book shows...
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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, the controversy and mystery surrounding them, and much more besides. This text will be of considerable value to anyone with an interest in the Morgan...
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Winning at the racetrack, however you define it, is neither easy nor a sure thing. But before you can think about winning, you need to learn which handicapping strategies are valuable, and which ones aren't.
The Skeptical Handicapper: Using Data and Brains to Win at the Racetrack examines both popular and little-known angles to see what really works at the pari-mutuel windows. Author Barry Meadow, who wrote Money Secrets at the Racetrack, became...
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