Animal Sports - Horse Racing
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Greyhound: The Remarkable Story of the Legendary Racehorse Who Inspired a Nation
$29.95 Add to cartUnbeatable like Man O’ War, record-breaking speed like Secretariat, and loved by the fans and everyone who knew him like Seabiscuit. While any fan of harness racing will know and talk of Greyhound wi
- Author: Eriksen, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1646013050
- Language: English
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A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of a novelist’s lifelong obsession with horses. – “Exuberant… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033179
- Language: English
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Ruffian: Burning From the Start
$20.00 Add to cartDuring two short seasons at the track, Ruffian was hailed as the greatest thoroughbred filly of all time. Unbeaten in her first ten starts, she shattered one record after another, dazzling crowds with… [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0345450000
- Language: English
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Death of a Racehorse: An American Story
$29.99 Add to cartThe inside story of the crisis within the country’s most classic sport–horseracing–and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game.
Every year, hundreds of horses die on the racetrac- Author: Lillis, Katie Bo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1668017016
- Language: English
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Letters from Country Life: Adolphe Pons, Man O’ War, and the Founding of Maryland’s Oldest Thoroughbred Farm
$24.95 Add to cartIn Letters from Country Life, Josh Pons, a third-generation horseman and owner of Country Life Farm, depicts a century of life inside the horse business, written from inside the fences of Maryland’s o
- Author: Pons, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 149308139X
- Language: English
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Unnatural Ability: The History of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Thoroughbred Racing
$32.95 Read more- Series: Horses in History
- Author: Toby, Milton C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0813197430
- Language: English
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Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown
$19.95 Read moreHe was always destined to be a champion. Royally bred, with English and American classic winners in his pedigree, Sir Barton shone from birth, dubbed the “king of them all.” But after a winless two-ye
- Series: Horses in History
- Author: Kelly, Jennifer S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0813197406
- Language: English
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The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha, and the Quest for the Triple Crown
$52.43 Read more- Series: Horses in History
- Author: Kelly, Jennifer S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0813197376
- Language: English
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Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America’s Legendary Racehorse
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”–Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse… [more below]
- Author: Wickens, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593496728
- Language: English
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Secretariat: Racing’s Greatest Triple Crown Winner, 50th Anniversary Edition
$19.95 Add to cartTimothy Capps tells the riveting story of Secretariat from the champion’s birth at Meadow Stable in Virginia and his tutelage under renowned trainer Lucien Laurin, to his great victories with jockey R
- Series: Thoroughbred Legends
- Author: Capps, Timothy T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149307332X
- Language: English
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Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the award-wining author of Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan’s first book, Blood Horses, combines personal reflections about his father and an in-depth look at the history and culture of Thorough
- Author: Sullivan, John Jeremiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312423764
- Language: English
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Come on Seabiscuit!
$14.95 Add to cartMaster storyteller Ralph Moody tells the thrilling story of a plucky horse who refused to quit, a down-on-his-luck jockey who didn’t let horrendous accidents keep him out of the saddle, and a taciturn… [more below]
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282877
- Language: English
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All Good Things: Good Things Come Book 3
$21.99 Add to cartHorse racing’s dream team is back.
Nate Miller’s finally got everything he’s ever wanted. He’s the leading jockey in Canada, he’s finally convinced trainer Liv Lachance to take a chance on the two of t
- Series: Good Things Come #3
- Author: Shantz, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: April 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1990436013
- Language: English
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Kentucky Horse Tales
$21.99 Add to cartErcel Ellis Jr. was born into the Thoroughbred horse business and has worked in it for seventy-five years.
He has been an owner, breeder, trainer, writer and radio broadcaster. His radio show, Horse Ta
- Series: Sports
- Author: Ellis Jr, Ercel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2019
- ISBN10: 146714147X
- Language: English
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Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track
$31.58 Add to cartGreat Horse Racing Mysteries digs beneath the surface of some of the sports most intriguing cases, including Phar Lap, William Woodward, Dancer’s Image, Chicago ringers, Shergar, and Calumet Farm. McE
- Author: McEvoy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493063219
- Language: English
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The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
$26.95 Add to cartIn 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 r… [more below]
- Author: Gilden, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149623619X
- Language: English
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Sham: In the Shadow of a Superhorse – Revised
$15.95 Add to cartAn American champion at heart, “The Magnificent Sham” achieved an unofficial record for the second-fastest time in the history of the Kentucky Derby. He remains second only to the legendary Secretaria… [more below]
- Author: Walsh, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 03 2007
- ISBN10: 1593305060
- Language: English
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Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America’s Hor
$26.00 Add to cartDorothy Ours’s Battleship tells 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 dislike- Author: Ours, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048613
- Language: English
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Tales from the Triple Crown
$21.95 Add to cartIn Tales from the Triple Crown, award-winning racing writer Steve Haskin takes readers behind the scenes to introduce them to the trainers, jockeys, and horses seeking the world’s most elusive sports
- Author: Haskin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073311
- Language: English
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The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
$34.95 Add to cartIn 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 r… [more below]
- Author: Gilden, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496230507
- Language: English
