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Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A former Rough Rider, a lovely but shady lady-in-distress, a drifting ex-cowboy, a young reckless cowboy, a haughty English sportsman, and a gutsy Pony Express rider come together to battle the trials of the rugged West in a grueling 700-mile horse race.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Doctor Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big horse race. The doctor runs into some problems. The doctor runs a high priced clinic for the well-off who do not have a clue that he has a degree in Veterinary Medicine.
4) Twice shy
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
1989, 2001
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hrs. 7 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
5) Dark horse
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a small town in South Wales, a barmaid and her husband breed a racehorse with the help of their community.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (287 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dick Francis sets his action in the high stakes world of racing where horses run hot, murder runs cold, and investigator David Cleveland always keeps his cool. In "In the frame," a violent explosion kills an innocent young woman. In "Blood sport, " a ($)6,000,000 stallion is missing and someone is trying to kill the owner. In "Twice shy, " a computer whiz is dead - his body smashed at the bottom of a rock cliff.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother, dead before Muriel's nineteenth birthday, and her sly, itinerant brother-in-law, Julius, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar...
8) Even money
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Formats
Description
Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a book-maker so he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings at Royal Ascot. When a man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned is thrown into turmoil. He'd been told that both his parents died when he was a baby. Barely an hour later, his father stabbed by an unknown assailant. Before dying, he warns Ned to "be very careful." But of whom? Of what? Ned finds...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 1
Formats
Description
Nicholas Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career-ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker, Herb Kovak, is murdered right in front of him and 60,000 other potential witnesses. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death, Foxton begins to question how well he knew his friend. Was the murder a case of mistaken identity or something more sinister?
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 8
Formats
Description
Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim? Harry knows very little about...
Series
Publisher
Brentwood Communications
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A racetrack betting tipster at a Florida racetrack offers some "good advice" and lives to regret it. It's his money or his life when mobster Moose Moran gives him until Christmas to make up a $10,000 error.
12) 50 to 1
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After their horse qualifies for the Kentucky Derby, a group of misfit cowboys from New Mexico face a series of mishaps in getting to the race.
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
"Felix Francis is back with another edge-of-your-seat thriller, in the classic Dick Francis tradition. Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned...
15) Kentucky rich
Author
Series
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels took readers on an emotionally rewarding journey when she created the Colemans and Thorntons, the unforgettable American families of her TEXAS and VEGAS series. Now, the next generation of Colemans and Thorntons are back in an exciting new trilogy that combines the heady thrills of Kentucky horse racing with strong, accomplished women who fight for their dreams. Kentucky Rich
Josh Coleman left behind...
16) Wings of Olympus
Author
Series
Wings of Olympus volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Description
High on the slopes of mighty Mount Olympus, among the sun-splashed meadows and sparkling waters, glide the winged horses of the ancient gods. Here up high is normally no place for a lost, parentless girl like Pippa. But once every hundred years, the gods and goddesses descend to the mortal realm to choose jockeys for their winged horse race--and Pippa is one of the lucky children chosen to ride. With her undersized, impetuous winged steed, Zephyr,...
17) Front runner
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 5
Formats
Description
"In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call will set off a lethal chain of events, including the apparent suicide of the jockey and an attempt on Hinkley's own life. Never one to leave suspicious events alone, Hinkley begins investigating the jockey and the races...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
After a bludgeoned horse ends up on the beach of his seaside home, then subsequently disappears, Inspector Salvatore Montalbano, along with the help of his illiterate housekeeper, must probe the incident's connections to the Mafia and the underworld of horseracing.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 308 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Steeplechase rider turned private detective Sid Halley returns to the track to investigate all manner of misdeeds, from conniving bookies and blackmail to murder. Dick Francis fans will delight in this mystery series. Includes biography of Dick Francis.
20) Racing stripes
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A traveling circus accidentally leaves behind a baby zebra. The baby is then rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked. He knows...
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