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1) 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.
2) 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
Sid Halley novels volume 3
Pub. Date
1995
Formats
Description
Retired jockey Sid Halley is stunned by a suicide that disrupts the racketeering trial in which he as about to testify.
5) Seabiscuit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
545 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Hellsmouth, a willful thoroughbred filly with the blood of Triple Crown winners flowing through her veins, has the legacy of the Forges riding on her. One of the oldest and proudest families in Kentucky, the Forge family is as mythic as the history of the South itself. Descended from one of the first settlers to brave the Gap, Henry Forge, through an act of naked ambition, is attempting to blaze a new path, breeding horses on the family's crop farm....
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who bothhave their own motives for helping her.
10) The killing
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of small-time crooks plan a daring race-track robbery--but their well-laid plans go awry.
11) Ride like a girl
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatized story of Michelle Payne, who became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015.
12) Triple crown
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country. 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...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Kaya is a Nez Perce girl who takes pride in helping out and supporting the tribe--and also in her beloved horse, Steps High. But when she chooses racing her horse over family responsibilities, Kaya has to prove herself to earn her tribe's respect"--
14) Flamingo Road
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Baltimore police officer Fia McKee is put on leave for excessive use of force after interfering in a crime that turns deadly. Given a second chance, she is sent to work undercover for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau (TRPB) at the Gulfstream Park in Florida, where she works as an exercise rider. Her assignment is to watch and report back on two racetrack workers who have been suspected of illegal activities and whose horses continue to outperform...
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