Horse Racing

In Head to Head, award-winning writer Lenny Shulman offers highlights from the best interviews he has conducted throughout his twenty-year career covering Thoroughbred horse racing. In that time, he has coaxed the innermost thoughts out of the sport's...

No Thoroughbred race in the state of Kentucky holds a more hallowed place in the national and international consciousness than the Kentucky Derby. Its fame is richly deserved, yet there are other equally important and historic races whose significance...

The year 2003 marks the 20th anniversary of the Breeder's Cup and veteran horse racing authorponying up with hefty nomination payments. It is the ultimate example of putting your money where your mouth is. Lefko details a comprehensive history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455622511Author Peggy LabordeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

The rags-to-riches tale of one of the most remarkable figures in horse racing history. Readers will be left breathless at the edge of their seats by the amazing stories in You Bet Your Life: My Incredible Adventures in Horse Racing and Offshore Betting,...

A massive crowd of people, cloaked in the colors of their beloved athletes, slowly fill a 150,000-seat arena to cheer on their favorite teams. Athletes enter the stadium amid great pomp and circumstance as opposing fans hurl insults at one another and...

Postcards from the World of Horse Racing: Days Out on the Global Racing Road is the new book by international-racing expert Nicholas Godfrey. In a series of evocative, informative pieces from around the racing world, Godfrey visits 20 different countries...

Burned out by working the baseball beat for years, in the summer of 1922 Damon Runyon was looking for a new sport to cover for The New York American as a change of pace. Having pilloried golf just a few years before, he went to Saratoga that August to...

Stories of bravery, determination and some unforgettable horses. Best-selling author and racing insider Anne Holland introduces her fifteen favourite racehorses. It is a dream line-up spanning three hundred years, from the great Byerley Turk, warhorse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345450005Author Jane SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 280g

With a trademark powerful stride amid a blaze of red and yellow silks, Justify emphatically crossed the finish line at the 2018 Belmont Stakes and became just the 13th winner of horse racing's elusive Triple Crown. One of the most charismatic and...

In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season). Veteran turf writer and racing historian Edward L...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493073313Author Steve HaskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Eclipse PressPublisher Eclipse PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540378Author Preston M BurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954207571Author Wary VamplewFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Frankie Dettori is certainly one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries’ truly great international jockeys. Italian by birth – he rode his first winner there – we have been lucky in England that he came to live in Newmarket aged fifteen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312341008Author Dorothy OursFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

The great myth of horse racing is that the game is the regal and royal Sport of Kings. It isn't. Not by a long shot. Anyone who doubts this need look no further than Suffolk Downs, a once-proud racecourse graced in its glory years by boisterous throngs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956461568Author Mark HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint MH PublicationsPublisher Mark Howard Publications

Edward Whitaker is publicly acknowledged as one of the best racing photographers ever. And A.P. McCoy is undoubtedly the most successful jumps jockey ever to have sat on a horse. The fact that the two have been around at the same time provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143190196Author Kevin ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Books Canada LtdPublisher Penguin Books Canada LtdWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554223022Author Michael J HaskettFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Durango Publishing CorporationPublisher Durango Publishing CorporationWeight(grams)...

"McCoy" celebrates the country's most successful jump jockey, Tony 'AP' McCoy, in the year in which he won the world's most famous horse race, the Grand National. "McCoy" will be a wonderful record of the champion jump jockey's career in both words and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540675Author Preston M BurchFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams) 399g

In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season). Veteran turf writer and racing historian Edward L...

A history of the Welsh Grand NationalBook InformationISBN 9780752427287Author Brian LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 172mm * 10mm

A history of the Welsh Grand NationalBook InformationISBN 9780752427287Author Brian LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 248mm * 172mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250048615Author Dorothy OursFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

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Racing is a sport of infinite variety, stirring abiding memories in its devotees. In That's Racing, published in aid of the International League for the Protection of Horses, forty of the top writers and participants in the sport - including Dick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957331600Author Rebecca WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rebecca WaltersPublisher Rebecca Walters

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994639738Author Lindsay E NylundFormat HardbackImprint Nylund Pty LtdPublisher Nylund Pty LtdWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974402307Author Steven KolbFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Rhoven PublishingPublisher Rhoven PublishingWeight(grams) 599g

Alfred Pollock knew at age eight that he wanted to race horses. By the time he was in high school, he had already designed a course for sneaking out of Commerce High School on the Upper Westside of New York City. He arrived with binoculars, a racing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805092479Author Jim SquiresFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 363g

In his long-awaited autobiography, the most successful National Hunt jockey of all time reveals what it was that took him to the top - and how he managed to stay there for so long.Book InformationISBN 9780747272182Author Richard DunwoodyFormat...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851314242Author Roger MuntingFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Hyperion BooksWeight(grams) 140g