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1) Bolt
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
p1999
Physical Desc
8 CD. (8.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Author
Description
"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...
3) Dead heat
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Formats
Description
With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton caters an exclusive luncheon at the Two Thousand Guineas horse race, a party devastated by a bomb blast that kills many of the guests.
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.
Author
Series
Harriet Bean mysteries volume 2
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Description
Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.
9) Ten Benny
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray has big dreams. All he needs is $10,000 to bet on a horse--a sure thing--and everything he ever wanted will be his.
10) 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.
11) 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
UCI
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (aprox. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"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.
13) On swift horses
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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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...
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.
15) 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...
16) Riding high
Series
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.
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 1
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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
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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...
20) Come to grief
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.
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