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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...
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Series
Harriet Bean mysteries volume 2
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Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.
3) Riding high
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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
4) Jockey
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
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Publisher
McPherson & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
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294 p. ; 23 cm.
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At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs,...
7) 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.
Publisher
Studio Canal
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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"The unruly belles discredit St. Trinian's by spending more time backing horses than studying subjects. The dotty headmistress's bookie brother intends to turn this to his advantage. As for Alastair Sim's dual role - he's in a class of his own!"--Container.
Publisher
Pony Highway Productions
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"This sweeping documentary series follows six fascintaing horse characters and their trainer, veterinarian, jockeys, owners and caretakers through the breathtaking highs and lows of a year of world class racing." From container
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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.
12) That's my man
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Don Ameche stars as a bookkeeper who yearns to own a racehorse, and whose dreams materialize when he comes into possession of a promising stallion named Gallant Man. But his passion for racing threatens to spoil his relationship with his wife, who shares Joe's idealism but not his willingness to wager their future on such a high-stakes dream.
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
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Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
14) 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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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
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"At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race"--an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. Riders often spend years preparing to...
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Series
Dick Francis novels volume 3
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"Dick Francis's beloved investigator Sid Halley returns in the riveting new mystery by New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis. Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He'd been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game....
17) 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.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm
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"In Bloodlines, journalist Melissa del Bosque follows Lawson and Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle a cartel leader?s American racing dynasty built on extortion and blood money. Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he?s deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold...
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