Horse Racing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493081196Author Avalyn HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Eclipse PressPublisher Eclipse Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493080199Author Linda CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Eclipse PressPublisher Eclipse Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493073337Author The Staff and Correspondents of The Blood-HorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Eclipse PressPublisher Eclipse Press

This fun and witty expose 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,...

The first-ever biography of trailblazing horse racer Lillian Jenkinson Holder, who broke the unwritten rule that women could not be jockeys. More than four decades before women were allowed to ride as licensed jockeys at recognized, pari-mutuel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493073375Author John McEvoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Eclipse PressPublisher Eclipse PressWeight(grams) 268g

For a few months in 1982, Landaluce was a national celebrity. In her second start, just one week after claiming her maiden, the two-year-old filly won the Hollywood Lassie Stakes by 21 lengths - a margin of victory that remains the largest ever in any...

A safety pin was all that kept Spectacular Bid from becoming the eleventh Thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown. This work examines Spectacular Bid from his humble beginnings -- he was born in a mud puddle on a horse farm in Versailles, Kentucky -- to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565541245Author Jim BolusFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

On October 20, 1923, at Belmont Park in New York, Kentucky Derby champion Zev toed the starting line alongside Epsom Derby winner Papyrus, the top colt from England, to compete for a $100,000 purse. Years of Progressive reform efforts had nearly...

Each year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "greatest two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby. No American sporting event can claim the history,...

Horseracing is the second-biggest spectator sport in Britain but, while it is widely viewed as 'a good day out', many people who enjoy the experience also admit to being rather baffled by much of what goes on. A Guide to Race-Going offers a wealth of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493076956Author Timothy T. CappsFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Eclipse PressPublisher Eclipse Press

This fun and witty expose 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228946Author Louis E. CauzFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 1444g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911204046Author Wary VamplewFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877096396Author Lynlea SmallFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Melbourne BooksPublisher Melbourne BooksWeight(grams) 350g

On the morning of May 18, 1924, households across America opened their newspapers to the headline: "Derby Winner Property of Indian Woman." The woman in question was Rosa Magnet Hoots, a member of the Oklahoma Osage Nation. The horse, draped in the...

Now in its 13th year, the Racing Post Annual is firmly established as the perfect Christmas gift for any horseracing fan. This exciting review of 2023 from the Racing Post, the nation’s voice of horseracing, has 208 colour pages packed with the best...

In 2021, horse racing's most recognizable face - Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert - had five horses that failed postrace drug tests, including that year's Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit. While the incident was a major scandal in the Thoroughbred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493066452Author Lenny ShulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493063222Author Edward L BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade Publishing

The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modem life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community -- the experience of exile. No one in the modem world has been spared the encounter with...

Women in all facets of the horse-racing industry share their stories. The updated edition includes an interview with horse-racing pioneer Diane Crump, the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.Book InformationISBN 9781493069644Author John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493063208Author Edward L BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lyons PressPublisher Lyons PressWeight(grams) 159g

In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes-and transcended his sport on a run of twelve consecutive stakes victories. But he lost...

Calumet, Claiborne, King Ranch - these iconic names are among the owners and breeders revered by Thoroughbred industry professionals and racing fans around the world. As campaigners of many of the 20th century's top racehorses, their prestige has been...

In 1968, a few women, mockingly labeled "jockettes" by a skeptical press, had begun demanding the right to apply for jockey licenses, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in hiring based on race, religion, sex, or national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994639707Author Lindsay E NylundFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nylund Pty LtdPublisher Nylund Pty LtdWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493081394Author Josh PonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Eclipse PressPublisher Eclipse Press

Edited by one of the Racing Post's long-standing subeditors, the ever-popular Racing Post Guide to the Jumps 2024-25 is one of the key tools for every racing enthusiast and punter to look ahead to the upcoming National Hunt season.It includes exclusive...

Now in its 63rd year, this popular guide to jumps racing summarises the prospects of 100 steeplechasers and hurdlers whom Raceform’s expert race-readers expect to do well in the coming 2024-25 season.Book InformationISBN 9781839501494Author Rodney...

Now in its 14th year, the Racing Post Annual is firmly established as the perfect Christmas gift for any horseracing fan.This exciting review of 2024 from the Racing Post, the nation’s voice of horseracing, has 208 colour pages packed with the best...

Immortals explores the remarkable stories of 50 great racehorse champions, focusing on horses in and beyond Europe.Since National Hunt racing was first standardised in the 19th century, countless winter warriors have given the jump-racing public...

Now in its 14th year, the Irish Racing Post Annual is firmly established as the perfect Christmas gift for any horseracing fan.Racing Post, the nation's voice of horseracing, has 208 colour pages packed with the best stories of the racing year and is...