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"The audacious and inspired history of horse racing told through the bloodline of twenty-five exceptional Arabian steeds. In 1704 a bankrupt English merchant sent home the colt he had bought from Bedouin tribesmen near the ruins of Palmyra. Thomas Darley hoped this horse might be the ticket to a new life back in Yorkshire. But he turned out to be far more than that, and although Mr. Darley's Arabian never ran a race, 95% of all thoroughbreds in the...
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"From Seabiscuit to Secretariat, Americans have a fascination with and a passion for race horses. Kentucky Derby Dreams is the first book of its kind to capture that excitement before history is made. From the carefully calculated birth of the new crop of foals to the horses' debut at the world's premier yearling sale in Lexington, Kentucky, this is a rare behind-the-scenes look at the vets, the drugs, the surgeries, the long hours, and the hard work...
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While Seabiscuit is perhaps the best-known Thoroughbred in history, Charles S. Howard owned another remarkable racehorse that should never be forgotten. Irish-bred Noor dominated the 1950 racing season, setting world records in victories over Citation and winning the Hollywood Gold Cup by defeating a Triple Crown winner, the Horse of the Year and the previous year's Kentucky Derby winner. Sadly, that fame faded as he failed to sire champions, and...
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Cynster next generation volume 7
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On the hunt for new breeding stock for the Cynster racing stables, Prudence Cynster travels to Ireland's west coast to evaluate the horses of Deaglan Fitzgerald, Earl of Glengarah, but soon after meeting both Prudence and Deaglan find it hard to keep their minds on the business transaction at hand.
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One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter, Mike Sullivan, was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was...just beauty, you know?"
Sullivan didn't know, not really: the track had always been a place his father disappeared to once a year on business, a source of souvenir glasses and inscrutable passions in his Kentucky relatives....
9) The last diving horse in America: rescuing Gamal and other animals -- lessons in living and loving
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"It was the signature attraction of Atlantic City's Steel Pier from the 1930s to the 1970s, the golden age of "America's Favorite Playground"--Doc Carver's High Diving Horses. Four times a day, seven days a week, a trained horse wearing only a harness ran up a ramp; a diving girl jumped on its back, and both sailed forty feet through the air, plunging into a ten foot deep tank of water. Decades later, after cries of animal abuse, and changing times,...
13) Jockeys
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the horses that race and the jockeys that guide them. Meet the stars of the competitive sport of horse racing, and learn how some jockeys can barely make ends meet when they lose. Includes 14 episodes.
15) The complete encyclopedia of horse racing: the illustrated guide to the world of the thoroughbred
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An authoritative and comprehensive illustrated work of reference, which tells the story of the "sport of kings" from its earliest inception to the present day.
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Texas, 1871. Wounded in body and spirit after a shootout, Rayford Jessup leaves his career as a lawman and uses his gift with damaged horses to bring meaning to his solitary life. Hired by a Scotsman in Heartbreak Creek to purchase thoroughbreds, he travels to England. Josephine Cathcart loves two things: her illegitimate son and her injured stallion. Faced with her father's bankruptcy, she has two choices: marry the man who ruined her, or risk her...
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