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4) Black Gold
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
[1957]
Physical Desc
172 p. illus. 25 cm.
Language
English
5) Crisis
Author
Series
A Dick Francis novel volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harrison Foster is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. There is far more to the 'simple' fire than initially meets the eye. For one, human remains are found among the equestrian ones. Who is the mystery victim? Harry is thrust unwillingly into the world of thoroughbred racing where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher than that of the humans who attend to them. Can Harry solve...
7) Born to trot
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally & Co
Pub. Date
1962
Physical Desc
224 p. : illus.
Language
English
8) Blind beauty
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage Tessa's passion for riding and her love for an ugly horse named Buffoon help her endure an unhappy life in the English countryside with a hateful stepfather.
9) Shattered
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The accidental death of jockey Martin Stukely implicates his friend Gerard Logan, a glassblower, in a dangerous search for a missing videotape.
10) Willow King
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Katie, who is herself physically challenged, saves a crippled foal from euthanasia and nurses him back to health and eventual championships.
11) Iced
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
12) High stakes
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
667 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
13) Wonder's victory
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 4
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
1993, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Wonder's regular jockey is injured before the Breeder's Cup race, Ashleigh must take the reins and coax him to victory.
Author
Series
Thoroughbred volume 67
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being injured in a track accident, Christina reluctantly leaves the training of her beloved Star to her cousin Melanie, a situation that threatens to ruin the girls' relationship.
16) Twice shy
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
1989, 2001
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A computer wiz is dead, his body smashed at the bottom of a rocky cliff. The answer might lie in his latest project, a foolproof betting system designed to pick winners. Jocky Club investigator David Cleveland wants to know why.
17) Triple crown
Author
Series
Dick Francis volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization an informant who is passing on confidential information to those under suspicion in American racing. At the Kentucky Derby, Jeff joins the FACSA team in a raid on a horse trainer s barn at Churchill Downs, but the bust is a disaster, and someone ends...
18) Racing stripes
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
A zebra raised on a farm in Kentucky dreams of becoming a racehorse. As he thrusts himself into a world of elite athletes, Stripes must prove he's fast enough and tough enough to run with the big horses.
19) Dead heat
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
511 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
20) Dream of Night
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.