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"Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit?s fortunes: Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the...
Publisher
UCI
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (aprox. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Princesa es un caballo de carreras que nunca había perdido una carrera, hasta que en una ocasión un jinete queda paralizado por una caída. Su hermano muy afectado, tratará de matar al caballo que causó el accidente. Esta sed de venganza lo conducirá no sólo a querer matar a Princesa, sino a más ... ¿Volverá a competir Princesa?"--Container.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"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...
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
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 1
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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
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Dick Francis novels volume 8
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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...
Author
Series
Sid Halley novels volume 3
Pub. Date
1995
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Retired jockey Sid Halley is stunned by a suicide that disrupts the racketeering trial in which he as about to testify.
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014
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"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...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 2
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"When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a...
10) Ruffian
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the filly Ruffian, who dominated horse racing in the early 1970s, until a broken leg at Belmont Park ended her career and her life.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
545 pages ; 24 cm
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"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....
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (617 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being shipwrecked on a remote desert island, young Alec Ramsey and a wild black stallion return to the United States where, with the help of a cantankerous old trainer, they join the horseracing circuit and take the racing world by storm.
13) 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.
14) Triple crown
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"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...
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