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21) 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.
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.
23) 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...
26) Jockey
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
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.
Author
Publisher
McPherson & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
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,...
29) The perfect ride
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press/Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xvi, 224 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
30) 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...
31) 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,...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 2
Formats
Description
"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...
33) 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.
34) 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...
36) 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]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"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.
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
Description
Trabajar sobre barras es la primera etapa para que su caballo aprenda a saltar, además de ser el mejor modo de adiestrar a su animal para que sea obediente y flexible en una superficie llana. Gracias a este sistema los caballos estarán más atentos y tendrán más ganas de aprender, al tiempo que reforzarán los músculos del dorso. Asímismo, el adiestramiento sobre barras será beneficioso tanto para el caballo como para el jinete. Este libro...
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